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CASE STUDY - DELIVERING HEALTH CARE BY DRONES
His response was surprising, and troubling – “Oh… he’s brilliant and talented, of course, but to be honest – he’s dangerous. He wrote a landmark article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1982, entitled “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine,” and later edited a well-respected textbook by the same name. We discussed both the possibility that technology could increasingly distance providers from suffering, and the fact that many physicians are “burning out” in a time when technology should actually be making their jobs easier.“They are related,” he said. “The problem that physicians have now is not that they get too close to their patients, but that they do not get close enough. The suffering have special therapeutic needs, and those aren’t met by technology alone.”Dr. You have no way of knowing if you are in the sacred space of Mars and death, or coming home from it.”Mars was the Roman god of war, and the Romans believed that Mars sanctioned war only as a means to achieve peace. Let us continue to immerse ourselves in the nature of suffering of the diseases we treat, as well as the suffering that is often created by our efforts to treat them. We must avoid, at all costs, simply delivering health care by drone. - Roy Smythe, FORBES – 22nd September 2014.

a. What is the main purpose of this article? [5 Marks]

b. What are the main scientific questions the author is addressing? [5 Marks]

c. What key concepts do we need to understand in the article? [5 Marks]

d. What are the most important information in this article? [5 Marks]

e. What are the main assumptions underlining the author’s thinking? [5 Marks]

f. What will be the implications if we take the author’s line of reasoning? [5 Marks]

g. What are the author’s main points of view presented in the article? [5 Marks]

h. What are the main conclusions of the author? [5 Marks]​

Answer 1

Answer:

what is the main conclusions of the author

Answer 2

Answer:

a. What is the main purpose of this article?

• The title of the landmark article confesses that the main purpose of this article is 'The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine'.

b. What are the main scientific questions the author is addressing?

• The main scientific questions are mentioned below.
• What's the possibility that technology could increasingly distance providers from suffering?
• Are physicians getting too close to their patients?
• Can technology fulfill therapeutic needs?
• What did Roman believed?

c. What key concepts do we need to understand in the article?

• According to the passage We need to understand that the problem that physicians have now is not that they get too close to their patients, but that they do not get close enough.

d. What are the most important information in this article?

• Both the possibility that technology could increasingly distance providers from suffering, and the fact that many physicians are “burning out” in a time when technology should actually be making their jobs easier.
• the suffering have special therapeutic needs, and those aren’t met by technology alone.

e. What are the main assumptions underlining the author’s thinking?

• The main assumptions are technology can make their jobs easier but it can't fulfill the special therapeutic needs.

f. What will be the implications if we take the author’s line of reasoning?

• If we take the author’s line of reasoning the implications will be the contrasts between physicians and technology and the fact of their performances towards patients.

g. What are the author’s main points of view presented in the article?

• The author main points of view are we have no way of knowing if we are in the sacred space of Mars and death, or coming home from it.”Mars was the Roman god of war, and the Romans believed that Mars sanctioned war only as a means to achieve peace.
• Moreover physicians should more close to their patient's and they should properly use of technology and the fact is that they are not performing well but technology have made their jobs easier.

h. What are the main conclusions of the author?

• Let us continue to immerse ourselves in the nature of suffering of the diseases we treat, as well as the suffering that is often created by our efforts to treat them. We must avoid, at all costs, simply delivering health care by drone.