Practice Podcasts 4/20
Practice Podcast 4/13
“Unfollow” By Adrian Chen
Megan Phelps-Roper’s life changed due to interaction caused on social media. Due to twitter, by being able to share her views on the Westboro Baptist church, Megan was able to gain a following of people who agreed with her views along with people who didn’t, still interacted with her to share their views. Since twitter is an easy place to share these points of views, Megans life was changed in a way that people were listening to what she had…
Disability
In the article, “Dear parents: Don’t just tell your kids not to ‘stare’ at mine” by Christina Cipriano supports Batson et al. claim, adopting the perspectives of an individual in a stigmatized group leads to increased empathetic feelings towards this individual. In the article the author talks about her son Miles who has visible disabilities and the struggles they have with parents telling their kids not to stare at hers. The author explains how when parents tell their kids to…
Listening
Listening can form crucial connections, creating one’s trust, respect and confidence. In the article, “The Day I Zipped My Lips and Let My patient Talk” by Danielle Ofri, she explains how doctors sometimes lack listening to their patients. She then does somewhat of an experiment where she let her patient talk the whole time for the day and she found shocking results. She found that it was easier for her to diagnose and find the route of the problem and…
Perspective Taking
“Addressing the Empathy Deficit: Beliefs About the Malleability of Empathy Predict Effortful Responses When Empathy Is Challenging”
Empathetic Effort is one’s willingness to put in effort and time into feeling empathy and argue people’s empathy experience by how much effort they exert. Karina Schumann explains how mindset can define how one feels empathy towards another in certain situations. For someone with a fixed mindset, it is going to be difficult for them to experience empathy in situations. Since people with fixed mindset have difficulty grasping the concept of an experience that happened to someone else, people with…
“Devil’s Bait” By Leslie Jamison
Jamison shows empathy throughout the reading by looking past the surface level understanding of how people suffer from Morgellons. Jamison is able to see the world through the patients’ perspectives and understand that people may not believe in their condition, but Jamison does. Though most doctors diagnose people with Morgellons as “Delusions of parasitosis” (DOP), Jamison doesn’t doubt their pain compared to a world that refuses to accept their suffer. Throughout the reading, Jamison talks about her experience and conversations…
“The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About” By Aviva Stahl
In the text, “The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About” by Aviva Stahl, the author is telling stories about Iffat and the multiple assaults they encountered being a Muslim woman wearing a Hijab in public. In the text it says, “Across Europe and other parts of the Global North, research gas consistently shown that women are the primary victims of the Islamophobic discrimination as well as violent attacks.”(331) Women are often viewed as weak and unlikely to…
