Big Med Gawande Analysis

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Diana Morales Herrera English 106/ 1011 Professor Bailey 8 October 2013 Big Med The cover of the article shows hospital equipment on a tray. I think this implies that medicine should be served to patients like restaurants serve its food to the costumers. Analyzing the title “Big Med” and the phrase that is just right below it, I can see that the overview of the article would be that hospitals should break away from “Traditional Medicine” to a more well-managed health care system or advanced medicine, thus, “Big Med”. I didn’t see any sub-titles throughout the article, that or I don’t know what sub-titles are, but from the paragraphs that started with a large bolded letter I read a sentence or two. Gawande compares the health care system…show more content…
This would be a new idea to the system and doctors and/or nurses won’t be very fond of this new method of running things. Hospitals think that the way they are running things is just fine and that there is no need for improvement. Gawande’s concept will take time to sink in. The article “Free For All” shows that by making health care free to the Jamaican public, it did not help the people in need nor did it benefit the health care system. A lot of people were seeking treatment, but there was a limited amount of resources because there was no money coming in. Like the headline in “Big Med”, “Restaurant chains have managed to combine quality control, cost control, and innovation. Can health care? (Gawande 2012).” Gawande might talk about how health care could be benefiting patients and those who work in the system. Something that surprised me is that both of Gawande’s article connect. For example, in “Slow Ideas” he writes that a simple solution of sugar, salt, and water could eliminate cholera in Dhaka, but the solution wasn’t popular, many didn’t use it and people still died. Then, in “Big Med” Gawande writes that doctors know a solution for migraines, but doctors don’t use it or tell their patients about it. Here are ideas that could help people have a better living yet they are slow in being

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