SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Third Day, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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The hospital is different from other organizations bc part of the normal routine is that people suffer die. Workers have to learn to adapt to pain and death. In the hospital, workers are free from common niceties and rules of decorum are thrown away for a more immediate objective (wearing scrubs and saying not normal things) That pressure frees hopsital workers from the constraints on what they say or do. Its so normal to the staff while so foreign and frightening to the pt - they routinized it. Violating someones body like that should be outrageous, but its routinized in or. Different roles: the circulating nurse is the stage manager, can go in and out of or. The pt body is transformed into an objectjust like any other animal meat that you can stick your hand in and tear at.
