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Hedva is often objectified as the "sick" and the mentally unstable; she is made a probLetter to a Young Doctor by Johanna Heve- lem that doctor's need to "fix." Relations da can be accessed online from Triple Can- of care can take place in these medical settings through trust which Hedva describes opy Magazine's 24th digital issue at as being "what keeps people from falling canopycanopycanopy.com apart... offer[s] small encouragement that the brokenness is bearable" (Hedva 3). Care relations can take place through doctor's the examination of Johanna Hedva's who appeal to the patient as an equal, not as essay "Letter to a Young Doctor" there is a 'lesser than', and through acknowledging a heavy presence in how gathering of her medical information in the clinical encoun- that the patient is an expert in his/her own bodily experiences. Doctors must realize ters she faces objectifies her. However, it is that "the patient [is] also a specialist... in possible that clinical scenes can be expepossession of a set of knowledges, a vision rienced as sites where relations of care do of the world we'd like to build" (4). happen.
By Cassiana Giardini
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The Muse ¡ Issue 10
