Postcolonial Perspective

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Culture, critical thinking, and perspective play a major role in the healthcare field. The breadth of knowledge taught by the humanities helps me understand the origin of each individual. For me, individualism is the cornerstone to understanding, diagnosing and treating a patient. When I am working with a person at the individual level suffering from drug addiction I do not see race, gender, or socioeconomics, but rather a rich cultural background with their own hardships and experiences. Postcolonial studies examine poverty, morality and race as the common theme in the colonization of peoples. The healthcare field coincides with these principles nearly identically. Our readings prepare us for the real world with each reading exploring a lesson …show more content…
In the back of my mind, deep inside of who I was bred to be, and the extensive training I have had, I see the patient. I see who he is as an individual. I know his background, and I know the hardships he has gone through to reach this point in his life. I know I need to do everything I can to save his leg, but most importantly I need to save his life. The team of 3 and I medivac out of the land mine field and I perform lifesaving medical treatment. First addressing the wound, and secondly addressing the internal infection and inevitable organ failure if I don't get the wound treated. We then land in “tent-city”, that's what we call it. It is an outpost housing military personnel, offering all the care and life necessities a typical small city could offer. We wait here while the helo refueled. The patient is high on morphine and is incredibly aware and talkative. We have an hour or so before we can get to a hospital where he can have surgery. During that time I provide care that keeps his vitals stable, I discuss his personal life and health history. He tells me his “pain story”, a similar story that I could recall learning about during my time as an undergrad at the University of …show more content…
All I can think about is the ineffectuality of the information at the superficial level. For, example Smith explains the origination of economical value for imperialism and that it was first “advanced by English historian J.A Hobson in 1902”. To me that specific detail means nothing to my future, therefor I will never apply this to my own life. Instead, Smith’s excerpt on race, gender and class broadly gives me the understanding that race at the individual level is linked to the institution that surrounds the individuals being demoralized. I know that the hospitals, and individuals at those hospitals are not discriminatory, but that the stigmas that are derived from society create an environment that does not foster a community to focus on the holistic being of certain individuals. Instead they are looked over in favor of a more ‘desirable’ patient. They are labeled as hopeless, or “chronic”, when in reality, it just takes a little more time in understanding the individual's
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