{"id":1148,"date":"2020-10-06T05:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/premedical-society\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2020-11-09T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:11:24","slug":"r-k-narayan-the-doctors-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/premedical-society\/2020\/10\/06\/r-k-narayan-the-doctors-word\/","title":{"rendered":"R. K. Narayan, “The Doctor’s Word”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A physician is called to attend to his gravely ill friend. Will he tell his friend the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Narayan, The Doctor’s Word<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narayan, The Doctor’s Word <\/a>(with highlights)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narayan, The Doctor’s Word<\/a> (vocabulary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What does the title “The Doctor’s Word” mean to you after reading the story? Can you trust Dr. Raman’s word? Why or why not?<\/li>
  2. What does “The Doctor’s Word” mean to Gopal? What does it mean to Dr. Raman? What about Gopal’s family?<\/li>
  3. Under what circumstance is it best to lie to a patient and their family? Is it justifiable in this case for Dr. Raman to lie if he really believed his lie would save Gopal’s life?<\/li>
  4. Why do you think does Dr. Raman find it so difficult to decide whether or not to tell Gopal the truth?<\/li>
  5. Why doesn’t Dr. Raman want to tell Gopal’s wife the truth? As someone who cares about Gopal, arguably more so than Dr. Raman, why does he feel that she should not know the truth about the seriousness of her husband’s illness?<\/li>
  6. Could Dr. Raman have saved other patients if he had resolved to hide the truth from them, as he did with Gopal?<\/li>
  7. Dr. Raman seems to believe that Gopal will die, but risks Gopal’s family’s inheritance by telling him that he is going to live (22). Do you believe that this is ethical behavior? Is it ever ethical to go against a patient’s wish?<\/li>
  8. Do you believe Dr. Raman’s decision to make Gopal believe he is not in mortal danger contributes to his eventual survival? Why or why not?<\/li>
  9. Does the intent or the outcome of Dr. Raman’s lie matter more? Would the lie have been ethical or acceptable if Gopal had died, rather than if he had lived? Why or why not?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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