Teaching the patient impatience: art, ageing, and the medical consumer

Argues that reading literature about illness and suffering offers health care professionals insight and empathy, thereby fostering communication and care skills. Demonstrates how, similarly, students were motivated by representations of ageing to develop authority, self-advocacy, research strategies...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. Literature; pp. 25 - 28
Main Author Mangum, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.11.1999
Subjects
Ageing
Health care
Literature
Portrayal
Relationship
USA
Women
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Summary:Argues that reading literature about illness and suffering offers health care professionals insight and empathy, thereby fostering communication and care skills. Demonstrates how, similarly, students were motivated by representations of ageing to develop authority, self-advocacy, research strategies, the determination to become informed consumers, a healthy scepticism about the social narratives (including medical narratives) about ageing, and the determination to question, analyze, and interpret medical language and the behaviour of health care providers, just as they would any other aspect of culture. Suggests that the study of age ideology can improve medical consumers' chances of securing the best health care for themselves and their elderly loved ones. (Quotes from original text)
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ISSN:0140-6736