Brute summary
The short story, Brute begins with the counsel of the author, Richard Selzer that medical staff
should
never
let
your
own
emotions
influence
the
patients
and
the
process
of
medical
practice.
First of all, he urges those in medical professions to imagine that when they go to a doctor and tell
them that they have chest pains, all the doctor says in response is “I’m tired.?nbsp;Furthermore, the
author illustrates the significance of the above view with the experience of treating a black man.
Twenty-five years ago, a large, strong, rearing, and roaring black man with a long wound on his
forehead was escorted by policemen into the Emergency Room to get treatments, when it was two
o’clock in the morning and he was tired. May be with the great dignity, th
e man refused violently
to accept the treatment. The behaviors the man acted on enraged Selzer extremely, which made
Selzer the brute and the subsequent cruel actions that he got the thread through each earlobe and
then
through
the
bed.
Finally,
Selzer
completed
the
treatment,
but
he
has
been
very
sorry
and
compunctious for the behavior since then.