Blog 6
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There are several benefits to applying “paradigm rhetoric” in my chosen career field: medicine. Self-awareness through digital identity or the realization that many experiences are mediated applies to medicine in that it reveals that many things are not able to be fully conveyed through capta or Dataism. A patient is more than lab results or numbers in a chart. The patient can give useful information through an affective expression in face-to-face communication or through thorough verbal descriptions that are recorded as part of a digital healthcare trace. People are known through their digital traces. As medicine is becoming more diagnosis-oriented and less person-oriented, it would be a good change of pace to be aware of what can be missed if a fully-embodied, affective “portrait” of the patient is not compiled. A characteristic of Electracy is that the products created in this age fully embody the subject. Isn’t it reasonable that a patient’s record and condition should also be fully embodied instead of numbers published as lab results? Thus, a greater orientation toward compiling an accurate, thorough representation of patients, which can be kept electronically, would be a beneficial change if this paradigm is brought to the forefront of doctor-patient interactions
Writing Fall 2015 