One of you said this. I agree. However, we do not covey that in our instructional materials. One reason is the definition of sociology as review..... a humanity not a source of knowledge..... a science.
Example, Monday am my MiL age 94 had a repair of a double hernia. She was up and about with Tylenol on Monday. It was decided based on her age to keep her over night. We left her in good spirits . A call Tuesday am informed us she had fallen on the way to the bath room..... The night shift had given her Vicoden. The meds were not ordered by the M.D. Apologies were abundant..... as if they didn't know..... Where does the Sociology come in you ask.. This is a typical practice used by the night shift to keep the natives quiet. I listened to them....some of them have two jobs...the hospital and the day care...etc. This one of the everyday events that happen and go unnoticed and unresolved because sociology has not been used. They work by night and Goffman tell the story... and how we could prevent these "accidents" ....I note that it is widely reported that 100K people die each year because of medical accidents. Many like these could be prevented if sociology had been used. Ken Lay had a Ph. D. in economics yet he couldn't read a financial statement...... how many of us have physicians who read the reports but can't read the X-rays or scans? I once spent 30 minutes going over a report that had concluded that -1.0 was less than -0.8 on a dexascan. Or the retail merchandising materials that are not field tested. Cheers Del --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
