I really liked the video linked below, probably because I watched it a few hours after John came home last Sunday from a friend's house. He'd been begging us to let him go to this friend's, especially now that the weather is warmer, for an all-out water gun battle. His (and our) schedule was finally clear enough for him to get over there and get wet, and he spent a long time in the toy aisle picking out his weapons of choice.
The video is a brief, two minute profile of Dr. Dan Shapiro, chairman of the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine. He's not a "real" doctor -- he's a PhD. (Hah.) His specialty is working with medical students to get them to treat patients like people, to treat the whole person and not just the disease, as he explains in the video. As a survivor of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he has firsthand experience with what happens to doctors when they refuse to see the person behind the patient, as he also explains in the video.
There's an important lesson there for doctors. (I'll let you figure out what it is.)
The video is a brief, two minute profile of Dr. Dan Shapiro, chairman of the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine. He's not a "real" doctor -- he's a PhD. (Hah.) His specialty is working with medical students to get them to treat patients like people, to treat the whole person and not just the disease, as he explains in the video. As a survivor of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he has firsthand experience with what happens to doctors when they refuse to see the person behind the patient, as he also explains in the video.
There's an important lesson there for doctors. (I'll let you figure out what it is.)
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