Non-Medical Expertise The Post-High School Term Paper

Medical personnel served patients and visitors deftly; they were professional, attentive and knowledgeable and operated in a no-nonsense manner that I respected and hope to emulate as a practicing physician. The occasionally present language barrier posed few problems in the doctor-patient relationship while my friend recuperated in hospital. Cultural differences in the medical experience can become issues for medical practitioners anywhere but especially in multicultural America. Doctors who treat patients from different backgrounds sometimes fail to accommodate for large extended families for visiting hours, for example, or doctors may resist accommodating for outmoded misogynistic cultural norms such as addressing the husband directly about the wife's medical decisions. Linguistic barriers can also impede a doctor's ability to properly treat a patient or offer the patient all the options available for treatment.

While in Asia I witnessed the diverse ways patients...

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In democratic America, patients are usually more willing to question doctors but Asian-American patients and patients from many other cultures too don't challenge a doctor's advice as readily as a European-American might. I also noticed how integral social support systems are to extended patient care; doctors simply assume that family members will care for the patient no matter how severe his or her needs are. In America, extended families are almost unheard of and many seniors live and die alone.
A returned home tan and rested, prepared for university. My friend recovered from his bout with a mysterious unnamed illness, obviously a victim of some form of contaminated food or water. The miracles of modern medicine, alas another cliche, transcend cultural boundaries. No matter what language we speak or how many grandparents live under our roof, we can all point and say "ouch."

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