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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Hamzi, Leila

• Arthur Frank

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/30427

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/30427