Thesis:
In a doctor-patient relationship, communication is considered a key element to provide
quality care. It is a necessary tool in order to avoid errors, improve quality, and achieve better
health outcomes. The focus will specifically look into the doctor-patient relationship and the
value of communicating with one another. Despite the shorten time in a doctor and patient
appointment. Communication will be the tool that provides a patient an effective health and will
alleviate health disparities. There are various concepts that will be used in this comic to frame
the key issue. First, explaining the doctor patient relationship through Elizabeth Povenilli’s
concept of ‘recognition’. It recognizes recognition in terms of camouflage. Secondly, the
space/movements used in a caregiving environment. Finally, the different forms of tense that fit
into the narrative.
Recognition:
Povenilli describes the modes of recognition that become visible when there is a threat to
late liberal security. In the environment of healthcare, in order for something to be recognized
there must be a threat to this system. In this case the physician needs to recognize the patient as a
threat to healthcare in order for it to be considered ‘recognition’. The comic will show that
recognition has been lost because the identity of the patient is removed. During the doctorpatient conversation, the ‘individuality’ of a patient becomes extracted from them. The ‘person’
is not there because they gave themselves up under the medical gaze, this gaze alienates them
from their body. Since the patient has been medicalized the biotechnical section is used to
structure the interaction with the medical personnel. We can observe this as a social project that
has become hidden or as Povenilli describes, as camouflage. The patients are going to exist, but
they are being hidden and not trying to step out and create noise.
Space/Movemen