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title

The Doctor-Patient Relationship Between President Obama and the Nation: An Analysis of the Speech on Health Care Reform Given to Congress in 2009

author

Hamzi, Leila

abstract

On September 9, 2009, President Obama addressed Congress on the illness from which the United States health care system has been suffering for decades. His speech on health care reform diagnosed the illness just as a physician would diagnose an illness of a patient. Obama observed the symptoms of rising medical costs, limited access to medical care, and declining quality of medical care and proposed a plan for reform which would treat the condition. In analyzing the speech, his relationship with the country is analogous to a doctor-patient relationship found in a clinical setting.

subject

Arthur Frank

Bioethics

Doctor-Patient

Health Care Reform

Health Communication

Obama

contributor

Hyde, Michael J (committee chair)

King, Nancy MP (committee member)

Hall, Mark A (committee member)

date

2011-02-16T21:42:36Z (accessioned)

2011-02-16T21:42:36Z (available)

2010 (issued)

degree

Bioethics (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/30427 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis