To write a case study for “the public.” The case study is to include a reflection on the larger meaning or importance of the interviewee’s encounter(s) with the health care system.

For this assignment, i need to write a case study for my interview. The interview could be anyone with illness expreience. I need to write about his experience and what I learned for my future medical carrer.

audience is The educated public – the readers we ourselves have been this quarter when reading the writing of physician-writers such as Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman and Lisa Sanders..

Learning Objectives:

That students gain either a first or additional experience in:

• Interviewing, especially
  • Asking open-ended questions
  • Active listening
  • Paying attention to non-verbal information
  • Etc.
• The sentence-level writing practices we’ve been practicing this quarter
• New writing practices such as
  • Writing description
  • Choosing between direct quotation and paraphrase
  • Finding larger meaning or importance in a story.

  Readings

  Brown Interview Checklist (optional)

  Coulihan, J.L. et al., “Let Me See If I Have This Right…”: Words that Help Build Empathy,
  Annals of Internal Medicine, v. 135, no. 3, pp.221-7

  Lichstein, Peter R., Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations. 3rd ed., Ch. 3, “The Medical Interview”
  

  Sanders, Lisa, Every Patient Tells a Story, Ch. 1, “The Facts, and What Lies Beyond”; Chapter 2, “The Stories They Tell”