Doctors and Dr. Seuss: Restoring the Patient’s Voice

In 2012, Dartmouth College renamed its medical school, founded in 1797, the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine. Using the renaming of the medical school of Dartmouth College as a foil, I offer in this article a vision of what it might mean to align Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss...

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Main Author: Carlin, Nathan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-119
Further subjects:B You’re Only Old Once!
B Medical Education
B pathography
B Dr. Seuss
B bioethics education
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Summary:In 2012, Dartmouth College renamed its medical school, founded in 1797, the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine. Using the renaming of the medical school of Dartmouth College as a foil, I offer in this article a vision of what it might mean to align Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, with doctors by examining Geisel’s You’re Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children. In this article, I derive four critiques of modern medicine from the book and offer four strategies as to how these critiques could be explored in medical education. If You’re Only Old Once! is read as a pathography, I argue that it can be used as a resource for medical education.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S096318011400036X