There are two models that are important to understand the care and interaction found in health care: biomedical model and bio-psychological model. The biomedical model, also known as the voice of medicine, focuses on the medical language such as biological causes and treatments. The bio-psychological model, also known as the voice of the lifeworld, focuses on how the environment can affect the people along with their perspectives of their health. This model allows other types of allopathic therapies besides the biomedical model. To illustrate more about the differences between the folk and medical knowledge, one can read these three articles: “Ray Hicks and The Doctors” by Joseph Sobol (2002), “Being Ill in a Foreign Land: International Students’
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To begin with, Ray Hicks is a famous traditional storyteller that lived in an old-fashioned cabin up on a mountain. He normally does not go to the hospital, but his health had quickly deteriorated over winter leading to his visit with the hospital. Thus, the first meeting between Hicks and the intern doctor happened after waiting about seven hours. The exchange between the two was like a battle. Hicks spoke as if his life was a narrative, while the intern doctor wanted clear cut answers causing him to be more agitated or impatient. There were also family members in the room to help with interpreting the languages used between the two. However, Hicks ended the battle with a story of course about a cat causing the intern doctor to relax into a storylistening trance losing his paternalism authority and sternness. In the end, Hicks was admitted to the hospital after the intern doctor administered a prostate exam. With this example, one can see how both of them compromised even though they were hard set in their language expressions. The intern doctor accepted the way Hicks spoke, and Hicks allowed the intern doctor to do an exam and give treatment at the hospital. The second example is when Hicks was in the hospital staying at the pediatric ward. There was a little girl in the hospital, and Hicks told her a story that started sad but ended happily. This shows that even …show more content…
This is about communication between the students and their healthcare providers. Most international students felt that the University Health Services were impressive with advanced equipment, friendliness shown, and professional information with lay language included. Some others said that the staff remembered their names and kept the conversation up which made them feel more at home. However, there were a few others that felt like their providers should have initiated the conversation more. They were left feeling doubtful and unanswered to their
To begin with, Ray Hicks is a famous traditional storyteller that lived in an old-fashioned cabin up on a mountain. He normally does not go to the hospital, but his health had quickly deteriorated over winter leading to his visit with the hospital. Thus, the first meeting between Hicks and the intern doctor happened after waiting about seven hours. The exchange between the two was like a battle. Hicks spoke as if his life was a narrative, while the intern doctor wanted clear cut answers causing him to be more agitated or impatient. There were also family members in the room to help with interpreting the languages used between the two. However, Hicks ended the battle with a story of course about a cat causing the intern doctor to relax into a storylistening trance losing his paternalism authority and sternness. In the end, Hicks was admitted to the hospital after the intern doctor administered a prostate exam. With this example, one can see how both of them compromised even though they were hard set in their language expressions. The intern doctor accepted the way Hicks spoke, and Hicks allowed the intern doctor to do an exam and give treatment at the hospital. The second example is when Hicks was in the hospital staying at the pediatric ward. There was a little girl in the hospital, and Hicks told her a story that started sad but ended happily. This shows that even …show more content…
This is about communication between the students and their healthcare providers. Most international students felt that the University Health Services were impressive with advanced equipment, friendliness shown, and professional information with lay language included. Some others said that the staff remembered their names and kept the conversation up which made them feel more at home. However, there were a few others that felt like their providers should have initiated the conversation more. They were left feeling doubtful and unanswered to their