In the article “What Happens When the Patient Becomes the Boss” it mentions the lack in inclusion of technology in health care. Doctors are not always able to keep up with the latest technology nor are they always taught how to use it. It mentions that sometimes patients have to do their own research on …
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Healthcare
In “How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Healthcare”, Bernard Merr discusses what artificial intelligence does, and how it can benefit medicine. The use of artificial intelligence can create different health outcomes because it has access to more information. A doctor will not remember everything that they learned while in school, and has a brief window of …
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Patient Provider Interactions
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 …
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. …
Nurse Jackie
The television show that I decided to watch was Nurse Jackie. In one of the episodes there is a kid who falls from the playground. When he arrives to the ER it is discovered that he has a collapsed lung. The reason for the injury is due to the neighborhood that the family lives in, …
Individual-Level Interventions
The CSUEB Student Health Services provide students with medical services, counseling, and health education. This relates to the article because this is an example of an individual-level intervention. Student’s overall health is extremely important while they are going to school, and having access and resources on campus makes it easier for students to receive help …
Accessibility
My House My house is not very accessible. The way that it is built is for able bodied people. All of the bedrooms are upstairs which would cause difficulty for someone who couldn’t walk and could be tricky for a blind person. In addition, the backyard can be difficult to maneuver. The majority of our …
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