Society has evolved the world of medicine by going to the internet and crowdsourcing various medical issues. Darshak Sanghavi, a pediatric cardiologist and Slates health care columnist, discusses the pros of crowdsourced medicine and provides his own personal opinions on this idea in the article “The Doctors Will See You Now”. He includes in his article that Wired Magazine “coined the term crowdsourcing” to describe looking up medical issues and getting advice from a large group of people.This article was posted four years after the word “crowdsourcing” became a common term and Sanghavi makes a compelling argument proving the legitimacy of crowdsourced medicine to future patients. After thinking about my own subject position on this article, …show more content…
Sanghavi decides to start of the article with a personal anecdote to provoke the reader to make an emotional connection with him so the readers feel comfortable trusting him.The reason he started off with this anecdote was to connect with the readers on an emotional level and lure the reader into continuing reading the novel. He starts off the description by including that the year was 1995. By adding this detail, it provides evidence that although the term was recently created, the concept was present prior to the official term. He continues to describe the time when he was a medical student and he, and many other doctors, received an email from Peking University about a woman in China who described her symptoms.According to Darshak Sanghavi, “More than 1,000 trained medical professionals independently guessed at the cause of the woman's illness, …show more content…
Sanghavi starts to include evidence on the effectiveness of crowdsourcing as a whole. In the piece, he says:
Debunking the myth of the lone maverick, health researchers suggest that groups of doctors outperform individuals not only in diagnosing problems but also in treating them. In 2007, NEJM began polling its readers for consensus opinions on tough treatment questions...Responses from almost 20,000 doctors across the globe were tabulated(Sanghavi).
This first piece of evidence proves to the reader that multiple opinions are better for supporting Sanghvi's ideas about crowdsourcing. The stats also provide credibility for the ideas, as opposed to utilizing the limited opinion of one person. They prove that it is better to have several opinions, rather than to trust only one
One’s thoughts and actions are direct responses to what one has absorbed from who they label as experts. Watters affirms, “One of the chilling things about these events, whether a puzzle or a scandal, is how a very few people in key positions can determine the course of events and shape the consciousness of a generation,” (513). Individuals allow themselves to be influenced by exerts so much so that they blindly permit, “These companies upending long-held cultural beliefs about the meaning of illness and healing,” (519). The individuals in Japanese culture subsequently allow these experts to take “long-held cultural beliefs” and standards and transform these beliefs into uniform diagnostic “three minute surveys”. Not only do individuals rely on who they regard as experts, but manufactures do as well. Watters states, “When I asked Applbaum why they were so forthcoming, he told me it was simple: because of his business school credentials and his extensive experience in the Japanese market, they thought he might be able to give them some free advice,” (523). GlaxoSmithKline also take who they consider an expert and confide in their
...x the problem. In today’s society, because of the advancements in the medical field, technology and the rise of professional doctors, we do not need to resort to supernatural phenomena to cure medical hardships. Doctors have the ability to fix most of our troubles through procedures such as medicine or surgery. Hence, this demonstrates how the study of history, puts human experience in context and allows us to understand ourselves as people and how much we have evolved, and will continue to evolve for centuries to come.
Values of caution and knowledge coincide in driving Welch to his conclusion of overdiagnosis due to society’s enthusiasm for everything medical. Welch concludes early on that the benefit of sticking to tried and true forms of healthcare overrides the belief that
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... Crowdfunding is based on quality and innovation, not on profit. A project needs to catch enough interest in order to be realized. This forces innovative architectural concepts. Conclusion The new mechanism = the crowd instead of the old centralized organizations plus the new driver = the quality instead of profit eventually leads to a new highly participatory society redefining our own relationship to the environment.
Caveat lector is a Latin phrase meaning, “let the reader beware.” Health information on the internet is growing at an alarming rate. However, some information on the internet is not accurate or current, and unfortunately, many web sites regarding healthcare offer misleading, incomplete, and incorrect information. Many consumers do not have the knowledge to judge and evaluate the quality of online information. This paper aims to discuss how the website WebMD presents information to readers. It will evaluate WebMD according to its source, where was the source obtained; type of funding, is it commercially funded or private; the validity and quality, how valid is the information and can it be verified; and privacy, is your personal information protected and how?
Once upon a time, it seems, physicians were wise and good, and medicine was an art. That's the feeling I get reading from the Chahar Maqala, tales from a time when doctors diagnosed lovesick princes from a urine sample, a pulse, and a review of local geography.
Advances in technology have influences our society at home, work and in our health care. It all started with online banking, atm cards, and availability of children’s grades online, and buying tickets for social outings. There was nothing electronic about going the doctor’s office. Health care cost has been rising and medical errors resulting in loss of life cried for change. As technologies advanced, the process to reduce medical errors and protect important health care information was evolving. In January 2004, President Bush announced in the State of the Union address the plan to launch an electronic health record (EHR) within the next ten years (American Healthtech, 2012).
The book I chose to read and review is Chasing My Cure by Dr. David Fajgenbaum. This memoir captures the story of Dr. Fajgenbaum and his journey through battling a mysterious and deadly disease. This story truly drew me in and I was astonished by all that this one man had endured and overcame. I listened to the audio version of the book, which was narrated by Dr. Fajgenbaum himself. I believe this allowed me to connect with his story even better as I heard everything from the one who lived it.
The expected hierarchy among health care providers is led by physicians. The doctor has long been the “expert” on anything to do with the human body, whether it is disease or injury. The evolution of technology brought the World Wide Web readily to every consumer’s doorstep resulting in a slight shift of this everlasting faith. Older adults continue to retain some of this confidence in their physicians due to their tendency not to use the internet and search for their own ...
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
In this text Mohanty argues that contemporary western feminist writing on Third World women contributes to the reproduction of colonial discourses where women in the South are represented as an undifferentiated “other”. Mohanty examines how liberal and socialist feminist scholarship use analytics strategies that creates an essentialist construction of the category woman, universalist assumptions of sexist oppression and how this contributes to the perpetuation of colonialist relations between the north and south(Mohanty 1991:55). She criticises Western feminist discourse for constructing “the third world woman” as a homogeneous “powerless” and vulnerable group, while women in the North still represent the modern and liberated woman (Mohanty 1991:56).
According to Foucault and Illich (in Van Krieken et al. 2006: 351-352), doctors and the medical profession have traditionally been empowered by their knowledge as the authority that society defers to with regards to the definition of disease and health. With improvements in medical technology as well as the advent of the hospital, an evolution...
And the quantity of consumers probing for health information on the Internet is extraordinary, still the proportion of users who can actually appraise the precision and dependability of the assimilated information is very small, which represents a potential threat to general health.... ... middle of paper ... ... Duke Forum For Law & Social Change (DFLSC), 5129-147. 12.