"Summer house with swimming pool" is a medical-mystery novel written by Herman Koch. The book is filled with dark humor, jealousy and unexpected twists. The novel starts out with Dr. Mark Schlosser, he thinks of himself as a fantastic general physician that is better than all the rest. Mark had never had a problem with any patient until famous actor; Ralph Merier comes in after a very eventful summer, with a strange lump that needs to be looked at. The previous summer before Ralph arrives at Dr. Marks office, Ralph and his wife; Judith and their two sons; Alex and Thomas, invite Mark, his wife; Caroline and their two daughters; Julia and Lisa to their summer house for a few weeks for vacation. Mark is fairly older than Ralph and their friends Stanley, so he tries doing things that he shouldn’t be doing at his age. He soon gets himself into trouble, …show more content…
Mark Schlosser in his doctor's office with a patient. He talks about how he is the best general physician. He states that he will always be the best because he keeps his personal life out of his office and doesn’t form bonds with any of the patients. He is always very serious with his patients and keeps everything very straight forward with each of them. Mark is an older man and he knows that when he is treating his patients. He says that with his age he has more knowledge than the new doctors. When he is honest with himself about his age, he does better a better job at his career. When he goes on vacation with the Meriers' he starts to act younger than what he really is to fit in. When he tries to fit in with his friends he starts to stop caring about his career, which leads to careless mistakes with his patients. Before he went on vacation with the Meriers' he never made a mistake with his patients but then when hangs out with his friends he stops caring about what is important and does really stupid things that could cost him his to lose his doctors license. (ADD MORE
It was interesting that initially Selzer claimed that the “poet is the only true doctor” however, later on he says that writing about doctors “must be done by
In her personal essay, Dr. Grant writes that she learned that most cases involving her patients should not be only handled from a doctor’s point of view but also from personal experience that can help her relate to each patient regardless of their background; Dr. Grant was taught this lesson when she came face to face with a unique patient. Throughout her essay, Dr. Grant writes about how she came to contact with a patient she had nicknamed Mr. G. According to Dr. Grant, “Mr. G is the personification of the irate, belligerent patient that you always dread dealing with because he is usually implacable” (181). It is evident that Dr. Grant lets her position as a doctor greatly impact her judgement placed on her patients, this is supported as she nicknamed the current patient Mr.G . To deal with Mr. G, Dr. Grant resorts to using all the skills she
Ralph is the novel’s protagonist and tries to maintain the sense of civility and order as the boys run wild. Ralph represents the good in mankind by treating and caring for all equally, which is completely opposite of Jack’s savage nature. Jack is the antagonist in the novel and provokes the most internal evil of all the boys. Jack is seen at first as a great and innocent leader but he becomes t...
Ralph is one of the few boys who realize that the only way to survive is through peace and order. Because he summons the boys at the beginning of the novel with the conch he and Piggy find, they look upon him as the most responsible of the boys and elect him as a chief over the humiliated Jack. Ralph creates a stable and peaceful society for the children to live; this significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society.
Diligence is a virtue. This is a theme Atul Gawande presents to the reader throughout Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. In each story, Gawande provides insight on medical studies he has previously embarked upon. For example, in “The Mop-up” the author tells us about a time when he went to India to observe the efforts to eradicate polio. Gawande explains how he followed a supervisor around and how vaccinations were performed. Additionally, in another chapter he debates on whether physicians should take part in death sentences. Throughout his adventures Gawande provides numerous enriching personal accounts of controversial events and what it is like to be a doctor; each with diligence playing a key part.
At the end he explained his “three ages of man” based off of Shakespeare's seven ages of men. He compare’s people to a puppy golden retriever stating we are eager and excited. Then knowledge, when you learn and understand, make discerning choices, and you’re a professional. The third stage is wisdom.
...immature guy who was very easy to manipulate. His character changes as he became more mature, understanding and revengeful, but still being compassionate. His actions reflected on his character, either by not giving up on his patients in “Code Clock” or by trying to explain to the people of Guatemala that there is a fire in the village in “Night Flight”. In the end he proved to be a successful doctor, even if he not omnipotent. In the novel “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures”, Lam debunks the myth that doctors are all knowing and God like. As he demonstrates Fitz fallibility as he fails to save people lives, keep his patients under control and catches deadly diseases on himself, proving doctors to be imperfect. Doctors are just like every other human being on earth, they tend to make mistakes and cannot control saving someone who is trapped between life and death.
Dr. Gawande emphasizes the value of making mistakes, and how it is a core component of his daily life as a physician. His mistakes are dependent on the “good choices or bad choices” he makes, and regardless of the result that occurs, he learns more about himself as a physician, and more about his connection with patients (215). Critic Joan Smith of The Guardian newspaper mentions that although his various stories about “terrifying” mistakes that doctors make induce fear and a sense of squeamishness within the reader, it is the “emphasis that human beings are not machines” that is “oddly reassuring” (Smith). For example, in the essay, “When Doctors Make Mistakes”, Gawande is standing over his patient Louise Williams, viewing her “lips blue, her throat swollen, bloody, and suddenly closed” (73).
This book (the last lecture), is filled with awe-inspiring circumstances. Of course life can come with some hurdles or challenges, but the tendency for Randy to handle his medical situation with phenomenal valor, is an outstanding qualities that shows leadership and focus on what matters to him, his family, and vision before he moved on to the next realm.
Jack shouted “Who cares?” Ralph exclaims “Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!” ( pg 91) Ralph was the one who tried to keep everyone together and Jack did every thing to turn the other boys away from Ralph. There were times when Ralph almost when to the dark side.
Ralph’s power at the beginning is secure but as the group succumbs to their savage instincts, Ralph’s influence declines as Jack’s rises. This is due mainly to the cruelty and violence that goes on in the story. This cruelty reveals that Ralph’s commitment to civilization and being rescued is so strong that he will not allow himself to change his morals and become cruel like the others. The cruelty in this novel also shows that Ralph is a very intelligent character. His intelligence can be proven because there was a point in the novel when he hunts a boar for the first time and he experiences the thrill of bloodlust. He also attends one of Jack’s feast where he is swept away by the frenzy and participates in the killing of Simon. This is a very tragic moment for Ralph because this is when he realizes the evil that lives within himself and every human being. It is the cruel acts that happen in this novel that reveals Ralph’s character of being intelligent and being able to think deeply about human experiences. He even weeps when getting saved because of his knowledge about the human capacity for
Almost doctors and physicians in the world have worked at a hospital, so they must know many patients’ circumstances. They have to do many medical treatments when the patients come to the emergency room. It looks like horror films with many torture scenes, and the patients have to pay for their pains. The doctors have to give the decisions for every circumstance, so they are very stressful. They just want to die instead of suffering those medical treatments. In that time, the patients’ family just believes in the doctors and tells them to do whatever they can, but the doctors just do something that 's possible. Almost patients have died after that expensive medical treatments, but the doctors still do those medical procedures. That doctors did not have enough confidence to tell the truth to the patients’ families. Other doctors have more confidence, so they explain the health condition to the patients’ families. One time, the author could not save his patient, and the patient had found another doctor to help her. That doctor decided to cut her legs, but the patient still died in fourteen days
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.
Ralph is a boy that is a typical young kid, he wants to have fun, he
This is where the best of the family comes to shine, each work together as a team to find Mark, think outside the box for where he could possibly run away to and the reasons for his actions. There appears then to be an acceleration in the growth of Interest for Mark, which all the siblings may have lacked throughout the