Doctor Analysis Essay -- Quotation Practice

Quotation Practice

Use Perri Klass admits - and quote page 62, paragraph 2, beginning to “primeval innocence”

Perri Klass admits, “If I learned nothing else during my first three months of working in the hospital as a medical student, I learned endless jargon and abbreviations. I started out in a state of primeval innocence [ . . . ].”

Use Perri Klass gives the following example - and quote page 63, paragraph 4, “Instead” to “enzymes”

Perri Klass gives the following example: “Instead, the patient is always the subject of the verb: ‘He dropped his pressure.’ ‘He bumped his enzymes.’”

Use Klass argues that she - and quote page 65, paragraph 19, Beginning to “hospital” and use square brackets when needed

Klass argues that she “learned a new language this past summer. At times it thrills [her] to hear [herself] using it. It enables [her] to understand [her] colleagues, to communicate effectively in the hospital.”

Use Klass offers this reflection - and quote page 63, paragraph 7, beginning to the end, but use ellipses to cut unnecessary “filler”

Klass offers this reflection: “It is interesting to consider what it means to be winning, or doing well, in this perennial baseball game. [ . . . ] The object of the game from the point of view of the doctors [ . . . ] is to get as few new hits as possible.”

Use According to Perri Klass - and quote page 64, paragraph 10, everything

According to Perri Klass, “There is the jargon that you don’t ever want to hear yourself using. You know that your training is changing you, but there are certain changes you think would be going a little too far.”