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| Surf's Up! Read about President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Project (www.chron.com/content/chronicle/page1/97/05/17/clinton.2-0.html). This kind of research is likely to make minority populations suspicious of doctors and the medical system. Do you think Clinton's apology is intended for the medical community or the minority communities? How might his message be read by different audiences, and how might this influence the health care system? Surf's Up! Do you hate HMOs? Most U.S. Americans seem to. There are complaints about poor coverage and bad decisions, but when you look at the complaints in the Ten Commandments for HMOs website (www.healthcare-disclose.com/), every one of the complaints is about communication. Surf's Up! Colonialism and powers established by historic conquests seem to play a role in conflicts between traditional beliefs about health and contemporary science. Read the article "Christianity, African Religion and African Medicine" by Gordon L. Chavunduka at http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/cd33-02.html. How can training in intercultural communication help solve the conflict between Christian ideology and African religious beliefs and medicine? Surf's Up! Find out more about the Terri Schiavo case by going to http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/righttodie/flash.htm, which allows you to hear audio recordings of arguments on either side of the debate. After listening to questions and answers from different points of view, how would you decide? How do religion and politics seem to influence each position? |