1. Articulate the value of positive relationships. Understand the power of intimate relationships.

2. Identify relationships and relationship factors that are important to him/her.

3. Understand the health
benefits of meaningful relationships.

4. Recognize the difference between scientific and and interpersonal ways of knowing. Recognize how social structures and social practices influence relationships.

5. Analyze the role of culture and power in mediating relationship quality, including that of the
health care professional and patient .

6. Understand how language provides the framework for the acquisition of new knowledge.

7. Recognize how scientific language objectifies relationships.

8. Apply the concept of 'witnessing' to the healer's role reflect on the difference between engagement and detachment .

9. Recognize the infrastructural nature of hierarchy.

10. Define transference/ countertransference. Define the limits of self-disclosure in professional behavior.

11. Articulate differences between the nurse's and physician's role.

12. Encounter examples of functional and dysfunctional relationships between health care professionals and patients.

13. Articulate fundamental components of a successful doctor-patient (or nurse-patient) relationship.

 

 


Section 1: Why are relationships important?

Exercise 1: Thinking about relationships
-Poem: Anne Sexton, "The Touch"
-Essay: Lewis et al. "A General Theory of Love"
-Photograph: Kurt Baasch, "Repetition"
-Painting: "On your death-bed"

 

 

 

Section 2: What is the doctor-patient relationship?

Exercise 2: Choose your patient
-Sculptures: Ronald Mueck

Exercise 3: The art vs the science of medicine
-Poem: David Gewanter's "My Father's Autopsy"
-Essay: Fredrick Brancati's "The Generic H&P"
-Interview: Richard McCann, "The patient's story"
-Painting: Bruno Perillo's "Secretly Hoping for Plan C"

Exercise 4: The healer's role
-Photograph: Kevin Carter
-Painting: Breughel's "Icarus"
-Poem: WH Auden's "Le musee des beaux arts"
-Poem: Donald Hall's "Last Days"
-Interview: Richard McCann "I just want to be seen"

Exercise 5: Power Relationships
-Painting: Winthrop Chandler , "Dr. William Gleason"
-Photograph: W. Eugene Smith, "Tomoko in bath"
-Interview: Richard McCann, "Equalizing the relationship"
-Photograph: Andreas Schreiber "In the hospital"
-Story: Jessica Treadway's "Fitness"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 3: The effective clinical encounter

Exercise 6: Positive and negative professional relationships
-Play: Margaret Edson, "Wit"
-Play: Wendy Wasserstein, "Welcome to my rash"

Exercise 7: How to talk to patients
-Video: Alec Anders: doctor-patient skit

Exercise 8: The doctor-patient relationship revisited
-Audio: Lucille Marchand Story