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<\/a><\/p>\n\u2190 \u00a0The Use of Force<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nA physician is summoned to make a house call on a family with whom he has had no prior contact. He quickly sizes up the situation: the household is poor but clean; the patient is a female child whose parents are nervously concerned, dependent on, yet distrustful of the doctor. The child’s beauty and penetrating stare make an immediate impression on him.Concerned that diphtheria may be the cause of illness, he uses his customary professional manner to determine whether or not the child has a sore throat. But the child will have none of it and \u00abclawed instinctively for my eyes.\u00bb The attempt at an examination rapidly escalates into a physical \u00abbattle\u00bb as the physician, convinced that it is crucial to see the child’s throat \u00aband feeling that I must get a diagnosis now or never,\u00bb becomes ever more enraged and forceful while the girl continues to resist with all her strength, and the parents are in an agony of fear for her health and embarrassment over her behavior.<\/p>\n
The story evokes with great immediacy a number of important issues about doctoring: the predicament of having quickly to assess a medical\/social situation in an unfamiliar, even hostile environment; the doctor’s impressive powers of observation; his concern to do the right thing medically; the anxiety of the sick child’s parents; the power that the doctor wields; the dark side of human nature which may allow such power to surface in unsavory ways and which the professional, like any rational person, has under most circumstances learned to control.\u00a0William Carlos Williams<\/strong>\u00a0published his story in book form in 1938\u00a0.<\/p>\n\u2193 \u00a0Adapted for the screen, filmed, directed and edited by Ethan A. Scarduzio <\/strong>[May 2012]<\/p>\n
\u2193 \u00a0Adapted for the screen, filmed, directed and edited by Ethan A. Scarduzio <\/strong>[May 2012]<\/p>\n