A Journal Entry From An Unnamed Physician - 1339 Words

Below is a journal entry from an unnamed physician in the court of King Henry VIII of England, dated 1540. The article was typed using Microsoft Word, and was then annotated in order to highlight key pieces of information and to provide the reader with relevant historical and philosophical details. The entry follows: While treating a common man with gangrene this morning, I realized that the best course of action was to perform an amputation. His leg had become gangrenous and if left untreated, the man would surely succumb to his ailment. Rather than to call for a barber-surgeon, I decided that it would be best to perform the procedure myself; those surgeons were prone to mistakes and the anatomy I had learned while in Padua earlier would make the surgery much safer. I was confronted by Johnathan Watts, another physician in the court, during the procedure. He claimed to have been searching for me and to my poor fortune, had seen me in the process of amputating the man’s leg. He seemed genuinely offended by what was transpiring, but I had told him to hold his tongue and to allow me to finish; I had already finished cutting the flesh to the bone and had commenced cutting through the bone. He looked at me with disgust and walked away, but not before I heard his threat to inform the Church authorities about what he had seen. I felt a chill go down my back as he said that and my head began racing with thoughts of losing my licence and being punished in other ways . Later IShow MoreRelatedIsolation in â€Å"a Rose for Emily† and â€Å"the Yellow Wallpaper†1222 Words   |  5 Pagescharacter in the story that undergoes a sequence of bad events. The unnamed, female narrator in â€Å"The Yellow Wallpaper† is also the main character whose journal we read. This difference in tense gives each story a different outlook on the situations at hand. 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