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- Essay Name : 602.txt
- Uploader : Eric Apt-Dudfield
- Email Address : ganga@nai.net
- Language : English
- Subject : Education
- Title : David Black's book Medicine Man
- Grade : 85%
- School System : High School
- Country : USA
- Author Comments : Book Report on David Black's book Medicine Man
- Teacher Comments : None.
- Date : 10/10
- Site found at : IRC
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- David Black's book Medicine Man chronicles Aaron Kenigsberg's third year
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- of medical school. In the process of describing his hectic life it teaches the
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- reader three very important things. It educates the reader about the future of
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- medicine, it shows how dedicated a doctor must truly be, and it contrasts the
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- medicine of the past with that of the present and future.
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- Aaron Kenigsberg's entire third year of medical school seems to be one of
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- harried excitement. The constant activity which Aaron and his fellow students must
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- endure teaches the reader a very important thing about doctors. Doctors must be
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- extremely dedicated to their profession. If they voluntarily undergo four years
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- of sleepless nights and non-stop days, then they must be dedicated. Black does
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- an excellent job describing the constant influx of patients that stream in and out
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- of Aaron's life. Despite these horrible pressures Aaron manages to do quite well
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- throughout the book.
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- Overall, this book, with its essays illustrating the effects of medicine
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- on the mind and spirit, begins to truly enlighten the reader on what the future of
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- medicine will be. It proves that sickness, and the subsequent recovery, depend largely
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- on the psyche of the patient. In other words, if the patient is convinced the sickness
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- will persist then he will not recover, and vice-versa. Therefore, it can be determined
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- that it is just as important, if not more so, for the doctor to have a large body of
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- technical knowledge. This is a very interesting idea in today's impersonal world of
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- huge health care plans and unknown doctors. It is also very interesting to note how much
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- medicine has and is currently changing.
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- One of the most interesting aspects of the book is its description of the current
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- revolution in medicine. It contrasts the relative helplessness of Aaron's father, who became a
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- doctor in the late 1960's, to Aaron's increasing omnipotence. Twenty years ago, Aaron's father
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- learned how to comfort and care for his patients while Aaron is learning not only how to
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- comfort his patients, but how to cure them. Black compares what Aaron would/could have done
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- in a particular situation to what his father would/could have done in that same situation.
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- After reading this book, two things become apparent. David Black is an author of
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- great skill and this book was written in order to help educate the reader about the changing
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- state of medicine. A little thought on the Aaron's situation and the changing state of medicine
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- provokes the following idea: until the human mind and body are completely understood, medicine
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- will continue to be a very inexact science.
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