This reading connects to what we discussed earlier in class about looking beyond a patient’s illness and looking at them as a person. It mentions how in describing the resistant patient, the physician had a different interpretation on how he pictured this man to be. As the doctor reads about the patient and upon seeing him, he’s created this mythological image of him by the way the patient described him to be. He looked past the fact that this man was a human and only saw him as his illness and this is a major problem in medicine today. Seeing the patient as more than their illness will help bring more understanding of the illness itself. They mentioned for one physician he would look at more than what the patient told him like: the way they
