HLSC 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hospital Medicine, Asepsis, Erving Goffman
13 Feb 2018
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Final exam - tuesday, april 24th - 2-4pm. Has evolved over time as we made the progression to modern medicine. Hospitals were places where people went to die. People who could afford it, received medical care in their home. Treating the patient as a person - diagnosing through an understanding of their life. Hospitals started to get better at treating people. Completed the phase of moving away from treating the patient as a whole. Allowed us to get to the root causes of disease. Awful treatment of patients - put on display for people. Not that long ago where medical practitioners would not wash hands between patients. Asepsis became one of the largest components in survival rates and reduction of disease in hospitals. Physicians do not work for hospitals - maintain their autonomy, right to practice etc. by fee-for-service system. Being under the control of the hospital, nurses faced the most budget cuts through this restructuring process.
