In the article “Patient-Provider Interaction Top Priority For Consumers”, it talks about what patients are truly looking for in their healthcare interactions. In the study, patients were asked to make a fantasy football like bracket of 64 healthcare interactions. They were asked to rank what healthcare interactions were the most important to them, and later …
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Making Profits and Providing Care
In the article Making Profits and Providing Care, researchers studied the relation of providing large profit services and which hospitals employed them more often. For profit, nonprofit, and government hospitals were included in the study. They took into account the size of the hospital, the area it was in, and teaching status. The study found …
Stress and Wellbeing
In the article “Stress Can Make You Sick. Take Steps To Reduce It” Dr Chatterjee talks about ways in which stress affects our daily lives. Dr Chatterjee is an author, television host, and influential doctor in Britain. He hosts the show Doctor in the House, in which he visits overweight and chronically ill patients, and …
Conflicts in the Workplace
The piece of media I am analyzing is Nurse Jackie. The tv show Nurse Jackie follows a nurse in a fictional New York hospital. Jackie, the nurse, works at All Saints Hospital in the ER, and tends to stray from normal nursing practices. She using her experience to make judgement calls on patient care which …
Biases in Health Care
A few things that surprised me while reading the articles were that women’s issues can be immediately dismissed and overlooked, race and/or sexual orientation can affect the treatment you receive from some people in the medical field, and that power of attorney was overlooked. I think the greatest surprise occurred while reading about Dr Wyatt. …
Julissa's Sociology Adventure 