Technicians In A Dystopian Society

Eric Cropp is a hospital Pharmacist convicted of involuntary man slaughter after the two year old received a fatal injection of saline solution.A pharmacy technician working under him accidentally mixed the clear saline solution incorrectly and he didn’t check if it’s correct.Three years after the death of Julie’s patient the hospital published an independent study of revealing multiple system issues including Julie’s error an honest mistake anyone could’ve made.Julie is now a TMTI patient’safety fellow to help saves other lives.The Story Power: The Secret Weapon ,is an article targetting all the healthcare leaders and in it is a secrets of a power of connecting the head to the heart to a prompt action. The end result of this war is basically

In the next stanza, the poet describes “A figure walking towards cloaked in blue/ Beeping/ Tubes/ Needles.” The poem addresses the routinely and monotonous aspect of being in the hospital for long periods of time. It is a critique of the biomedical model and how the hospital system is created where patients are tended to by multiple doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. The patients and healthcare professionals are unable to form a relationship that consists of what Kleinman describes as “empathetic witnessing” (Kleinman). Therefore, detachment between patient and health workers is developed and established, to which the patient cannot recognize or know the people assisting them. In addition, Grealy discusses this in her earliest accounts and appointments with doctors. She states that there is a layer of “condescension” and is an “endemic in the medical

In essence, the unbending traditions coupled with the pressure to conform to the institute’s perception of normal, creates a microcosm of society in both texts. The strictly enforced routine in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is used as a tool to portray the struggle for independence. Patients bend to conformity by not only the influence of the totalitarian Head Nurse Ratched, but also by the monotonous daily life. Any deviance from the ‘normal’ was met with cruel punishment through the threat of the electroshock table and other de-masculating forms of punishment. The Chief’s commentary on the daily routine, reflections on Nurse Ratched and her interactions with the patients is how Kesey demonstrates the extreme institutionalisation to the

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, the antagonist of the novel, Nurse Ratched, a former army nurse, represents the oppressive, dehumanizing, and emasculating machine known as the “Combine” that is modern society. Nurse Ratched holds complete control over every aspect of the ward, and maintains her power by manipulating the patients with their own fears and the threat of cruel treatment such as shock therapy. Nurse Ratchet’s hunger for power shows her true, destructive self that serves to bring for the shortcomings of the patients and eventually leads to the suicide of two acutes. Overall, the author expresses that this technique of military discipline and cruel treatments used by Nurse Ratchet, who is a cog of the “Combine,” is outdated and inhumane.

Inside the hospital, conformity is not an option unless patients want to face the wrath of the Big Nurse and her machines. Big Nurse operates the ward on a strict schedule and ultimately sets out to achieve submissiveness by any means necessary. “Ellis is Chronic came in an Acute and got fouled up bad when they overloaded him in that filthy brain-murdering room that the black boys call the ‘Shock Shop,” (16). “A cheery atmosphere” is the exact opposite of what citizens would juxtapose with a “brain-murdering” machine. Yet, strangely enough, the inhumane treatment such as what Ellis endured goes entirely disregarded by the Public Relations man in order to maintain a strong reputation. The corrupt values of society lead the Big Nurse and all of her patients to believe that the only way to succeed is to become a robotic copy rather than being an individual. “The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine,” (28). Through the concrete

Power dynamics within the institution present itself throughout the entire story. “What the Chronics are—or most of us—are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot” (Kesey 17). This passage expresses how dehumanization is used by authority figures to gain power. Authority figures in this novel tend to view patients as objects and things to control rather than valuable individuals who need help while the institution remains in order, the patients are being deprived of normal human qualities (Maupin-Thomas). This is important because it can teach students to recognize control and understand why reaching out to trusted adults is important by visualizing the patient's actions when not depicting the differences between control and receptive behavior.

Greek and Roman art greatly influenced the 1700s, a renewed interest in these culture's art came to light. During this time, local artisans were commissioned to make replicas of past Roman and greek art. Pottery-making became capitalized and wealthy families had these pots in their homes. Neoclassical was the new form of art, it was influenced with the same principles of Classical Roman/Greek art. The classical orders of the Greeks, like pillars and columns became popular again.

At the turn of the century leading into the early 1900’s came even more struggles and health concerns. Slightly after the first world war came brought some impending hardship on the hospital. Influenza was on the loose in the area, and hit the hospital hard in 1918. With the occurring overcrowding still being an issue, The virus was able to spread quickly. In the fall of that year, 290 patients and 60 employees got sick. Of those infected, 32 patients and 1 employee died as a result. The following year, an epidemic of diarrhea came along and infected 85 patients which resulted in 1 death as

This would not have been possible in a genocidal totalitarian regime such as the Nazi Third Reich. The book “ The Nazi Doctors” by Robert Jay Lifton talks about genocidal acts committed by Nazi doctors and their experimentations. The book talks about the concept of healers becoming killers. Sometimes taking doctor prisoners and obligating them to act against their will. As a result, these doctor prisoners felt responsible for those who couldn’t get any help from them. As doctors are supposed to be healers but without the necessary tools most of the time that was impossible to

At the time of the industrial revolution, industry employees didn’t reside in the outskirts of the town as those of the upper and middle class. The low-class involuntary endured pollution. It contaminated their air and water. They were susceptible to disease. Moreover, at the present time, there no suitable medical treatment would be accessible.

Determinists would say that the developments on machinery make doctors lazy because it makes them dependent but instrumentalists would say that it actually makes them more efficient in the work they do. The improvements technology has had on health have saved countless lives. This is clearly demonstrated in the hospital with advancements in the machinery that is used. Equipment, such as heart monitors, has become advanced and is a necessity in health centers to assure the well being of humans. Another example of very advanced technology

Today’s society, many people have health insurance through the company where they work. Depending on the company policy full -time workers receive a full coverage of health insurance. On the other hand, those as part time receive half or nothing at all. The communication between the health provider and workers about health insurance sometimes ends with an enormous problem. Because what the company said to the beneficiary and the health providers’ policy are totally different. But having health insurance is very important because uninsured people receive slighter medical care. It is significant to have one because in life, no one concoct to get sick or hurt. It is not something that a person wants to happen. But the unexpected one can occur where people may come to face challenges that would constrain them to choose between life and death. In this case, infrequently, people act violently in order, to save their beloved when feeling helpless. Because of this issue of health care that people are facing every day that John Q’s movie is given to our analysis. The movie is a perfect example because it relates to our course materials such as moral, values and ethical issues, etcetera.

An application of the Marxist approach to health will first identify the role of medical science and it's association with all other parts that create a capitalist economy that are inherently geared to the accumulation of capital and that the healthcare system, and specifically doctors as agents of the state, promotes individual responsibility of illness (Navarro, 1979) that is evocative of the predominant ideology of the state and political system that is geared to a capitalist economy and individualistic world view. Secondly health as a

The hospital represents one core of this machine. Closed off from the rest of society, the hospital acts as a micro-manager of health by turning non-functioning bodies into productive workers once more. In this instance, the hospital acts both as an enclosed space for the ill, and as a functional site for reproducing capitalism

The biomedical model of health views the body as a machine, death, illness and even to an extent death, being a biological malfunction. It being the role of medicine and medical professionals to diagnosis, cure and fix the individual if a ‘malfunction’ occurs. The diagnosing of illness being purely scientific and biological in nature deeming individual experience and broader social and environmental conditions irrelevant. The body is seen as separate from the person and the social, and is treated accordingly. This approach after diagnosis, treats the individual with specific therapy in accordance to the disease.