Treatment Process
In General, people who are sick need medical care. Doctors know how to cure diseases and are always doing their best to practice better medical care. How fast a patient recovers from illness is a function of the treatment given by a doctor and the attitude of the patient towards the treatment. There are circumstances where doctors have supposedly engaged in a wrong administration of treatment consequently compromising the treatment process. Wrong administration of treatment is wrong and may spread the disease. This is well illustrated through William Carlos Williams’s “The Use of Force.”
Manhandling of Patients
Administration of treatment should be carried out in a friendly manner otherwise it will lose its meaning. In the illustration mentioned above, the doctor is angered by the lack of cooperation from a little girl. It turns out that the little girl has some sores in her mouth which makes it hard for the drugs to be taken orally. Because the little girl does not cooperate to take in the treatment, the doctor is forced to manhandle her. Manhandling a patient because of the need for the patient to be given treatment is outrightly wrong. It is advisable that patients are made aware of the need for treatment and why they should not skip any of the dosages.
As seen from the illustration manhandling can lead to some physical injuries “the child’s mouth is already bleeding. Her tongue is cut and she is screaming in wild hysterical shrieks” (Williams and McKibbin 82). Administration of treatment in such a manner makes the whole treatment process such a painful moment while it is not supposed to be. Because the patient is a child, the whole treatment process becomes an ordeal. Such kind of treatment creates a very negative picture of a given treatment in the eyes of the children.
Doctors ought to be Professionals
As much as a patient may display some levels of ignorance that may affect the effectiveness of the treatment, it solely remains the duty of the doctor to ensure that the patient understands that her/his way of behavior is affecting the treatment. Back to our illustration, we see the doctor behaving in a very unprofessional manner “The damned little brat must be protected against her idiocy, one says to one’s self at such times” (Williams and McKibbin 82). The demand behaves in a very unconventional manner in the field of medicine “I have to smile to myself; I have already fallen in love with the savage brat” (Williams and McKibbin 82). What the doctor displays are a lot of irrationalities and funny enough he seems to be more interested to bring the girl under control than treating her. This is quite unfortunate because the doctor is focusing the attention somewhere else and not on treating the patient.
The doctor is also seen engaging in very unethical thoughts to the extent of contemplating killing the father of the patient. This is very unconventional because the doctor seems to momentarily forget about his duties as a doctor. It is quite unfair that some of the speeches that the doctor engages in are sharp that most likely those words are likely to affect the future life of the patient.
Conclusion
In the illustration used the doctors engages in what can be viewed as quite unethical. First and foremost, he uses force on the patient to make her accept treatment. The patient is also not handled well as we are aware of the injuries that she sustained. Even when the doctor tries to counsel the parents he does not do it appropriately
Work Cited
Williams, Carlos and McKibbin, Bill. The Use of Force. New York, NY: Associated Educational Services Corporation, 1967. Print.