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Write 2 comparison paragraphs using the sentence starters provided for the 2 sources below:
For this question, you need to refer to the whole of Source A, together with the whole of Source B. Compare how the writers convey their different feelings and perspectives on providing medical care.
In your answer, you could:
- compare their different feelings and perspectives on providing medical care
- compare the methods they use to convey their feelings and perspectives
- support your response with references to both texts.
[16 marks]
Sample Source A
This extract is from a diary written by a young doctor, Adam Kay, published in 2017. Here, he writes about training to be a doctor at medical school and then his first experiences of working in a hospital as a ‘house officer’, the lowest rank of junior doctor.
there I was, a junior doctor. I could have gone on a quiz show with the specialist subject ‘the human body’. Everyone at home would be yelling at their TVs that the subject I’d chosen was too vast and wide-ranging, that I should have gone for something like ‘atherosclerosis’ or ‘bunions’, but they’d have been wrong. I’d have nailed it. It was finally time to step out onto the ward armed with all this exhaustive knowledge and turn theory into practice. My spring couldn’t have been coiled any tighter. So it came as quite the blow to discover that I’d spent a quarter of my life at medical school and it hadn’t remotely prepared me for the unpredictable existence of a house officer. During the day, the job was manageable, if mind-numbing and insanely time-consuming. You turn up every morning for the ‘ward round’, where your whole team of doctors pootles past each of their patients. You trail behind like a hypnotized duckling, your head cocked to one side in a caring manner, noting down every pronouncement from your seniors – book an MRI scan, refer to rheumatology, arrange an ECG test. Then you spend the rest of your working day (plus generally a further unpaid four hours) completing these dozens, sometimes hundreds, of tasks – filling in forms, making phone calls. Essentially, you’re a glorified personal assistant. Not really what I’d trained so hard for, but whatever.
Sample Source B
This extract, written in 1857, is from the autobiography of Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse who travelled the world as a volunteer. Here, she has arrived to work on a wharf, an area of land next to the sea where boats are loaded and unloaded, to help look after men wounded at war.
The very first day that I approached the wharf, a party of sick and wounded soldiers had just arrived. Here was work for me, I felt sure. With so many patients, the doctors must be glad of all the hands they could get. Indeed, so strong was the old impulse within me, that I waited for no permission, but seeing a poor artilleryman stretched upon a wooden pallet, groaning heavily, I ran up to him at once, and eased his dressings. I was rewarded when the poor fellow’s groans subsided into a restless uneasy mutter. God help him! He had been hit in the forehead, and I think his sight was gone. I stooped down, and raised some tea to his baked lips (here and there upon the wharf were rows of little metal cups containing this beverage). Then his hand touched mine, and rested there, and I heard him mutter indistinctly, as though the discovery of my hand had arrested his wandering senses – “Ha! this is surely a woman’s hand.” I couldn’t say much, but I tried to whisper something about hope and trust in God; but all the while I think his thoughts were running on this strange discovery. Perhaps I had brought to his poor mind memories of his home, and the loving ones there, who would ask no greater favour than the privilege of helping him thus; for he continued to hold my hand in his feeble grasp, and whisper “God bless you, woman – whoever you are, God bless you!” – over and over again.
Display the answers for Question 1 for reference for this question
Answer structure: In both Source A and B, they present working as a Dr as…………………………
Source A presents…….. and similar source B presents the same concept of……… This presents the idea of ……… being universal across different centuries and continents.
On the other hand Source A explore……. By the use of [device] “…………………………” This creates the [effect/understanding]
Whereas, Source B contrasts this ides of …….. by exploring………. By using [device] “…………………………………….” This created [effect/understanding].
The profession is portrayed as _________ and______ in source B when Seacole “………………………………………….” and from this we can infer the writer feels…………. Because……………. Conversely, the writer in Source A portrays the profession s ______________ and _______