From the beginning of Shem’s House of God, the audience is thrown into an impractical perception of the medical field. The best practice of medicine is “ to do nothing” the zombified patients referred derogatively as gomers are incapable of dying, however the youthful and seemingly in shape individuals die. While, Fats is buffing the patients secretly hiding the fact that he is “doing nothing” to help the patient which contradicts the paradigm most people have of doctors. They believe that physicians are adequate, sufficient, and hardworking to cure patient of what ails them. Jo is depicted as the stereotypical doctor who goes by the books meaning she is an assiduous, meticulous worker. She does everything in her power to ensure quality patient
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He informs them as to what a GOMER is which means, “ a human who has lost often through age the what goes into being a human being” ( Shem 364). When Fats is confronted with yet another gomer by a panicked intern he calmly states that she only looks dead. He used the reverse stethoscope technique screaming, “ Cochlea come in, Cochlea come in, do you read me. … Suddenly the room exploded. Anna O. was rocketing up and down shrieking at the great noise” ( Shem 28). As we know most doctors do not use their stethoscopes in a backward manner screaming into their patient’s …show more content…
“ Thanks to Jo’s aggressive treatment of the gomers, they got worse and never got TURFED, and the dying young took longer to die” ( Shem 92). Granted Jo has some aggressive treatment procedures she does everything in her power to ensure that they live. She does not intentionally try to The gomers are older adults whose bodies are failing Jo cannot be blamed for the gomers’ tragic demises. Seemingly as Fats method for “ Doing nothing” cannot be proven either because it depends on the gomers body. The art of doing nothing does not necessarily mean that it is in the patient’s best interest either it just means that their is nothing that can proved that the patient is not doing, until proven otherwise. Jo is willing to continuously understand the vast complexities medicine through dealing with less glamorized side of medicine. Her willingness to understand the delivery of medical care is shown through her involvement in autopsies: “the postmortem is important it is the red rose of autopsy… it’s the flower of the science of medicine” (Shem 151). She learns from her past errors in medicine and uses that knowledge to treat other patients that follow same diagnosis like her deceased patients
He informs them as to what a GOMER is which means, “ a human who has lost often through age the what goes into being a human being” ( Shem 364). When Fats is confronted with yet another gomer by a panicked intern he calmly states that she only looks dead. He used the reverse stethoscope technique screaming, “ Cochlea come in, Cochlea come in, do you read me. … Suddenly the room exploded. Anna O. was rocketing up and down shrieking at the great noise” ( Shem 28). As we know most doctors do not use their stethoscopes in a backward manner screaming into their patient’s …show more content…
“ Thanks to Jo’s aggressive treatment of the gomers, they got worse and never got TURFED, and the dying young took longer to die” ( Shem 92). Granted Jo has some aggressive treatment procedures she does everything in her power to ensure that they live. She does not intentionally try to The gomers are older adults whose bodies are failing Jo cannot be blamed for the gomers’ tragic demises. Seemingly as Fats method for “ Doing nothing” cannot be proven either because it depends on the gomers body. The art of doing nothing does not necessarily mean that it is in the patient’s best interest either it just means that their is nothing that can proved that the patient is not doing, until proven otherwise. Jo is willing to continuously understand the vast complexities medicine through dealing with less glamorized side of medicine. Her willingness to understand the delivery of medical care is shown through her involvement in autopsies: “the postmortem is important it is the red rose of autopsy… it’s the flower of the science of medicine” (Shem 151). She learns from her past errors in medicine and uses that knowledge to treat other patients that follow same diagnosis like her deceased patients