A direct attack on preconceived notions about medical practice. Sept 4 Orientation to the hospital and ER internship. Why and how. Also, some tools to help you get a handle on ER experience, considering it from the standpoint of the staff, the patient, and some thoughtful observers. Sept 11 Health and disease.
Culture shapes ideas of malady, health, disease.
Contrast between specialized, biomedical vs lay conceptions. Health as cultural construct. Disease as constructed by biomedicine, and medicine as a social institution. Sept 18 Illness and sickness. To ignore it is to fail as a doctor.