UCI Week 7 The Score Positive Deviant and Medical Humanities Discussion

Please read your choice of chapter from Better part III as well as the afterword from Better. I will provide book

Write a 200-300 word response reflecting on your choice of some of the questions from below:

What chapter did you choose to read and why? What surprised you about the chapter? Did it

challenge your thinking about a certain topic?

What does Gawande mean by being a “positive deviant”? What is Gawande ultimately

“advocating” for?

How has Gawande’s method of writing been helpful as an example of “doing” the Medical

Humanities? Or, perhaps, not helpful? What has Gawande’s book taught you about the

medical humanities?

What has Gawande done well, as a writer, in his book? Is his argument persuasive? Why or

why not?

Make up your own question!