Blog 14: Independent Component 1

LITERAL
a) I, <3 Lilliana Mercedez Yzaguirre, affirm that I completed my independent 
  component which represents 34 hours of work.

b)"Cancer Cells and Chemotherapy." - What Is Chemotherapy? The Scott Hamilton CARES

Initiative, n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.

"Cisplatin." Cisplatin - Drug Information - Chemocare. The Scott Hamilton CARES 

Initiative, n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2014.

"How Does Insulin Work?" How Insulin Works. Lilly Diabetes, June 2014. Web. 07 Nov. 

2014.

Shuldiner, Alan, M.D. "National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC)." Causes 

of Diabetes. National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, June 2014. Web. 10 

Nov. 2014.

"Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus." Connect to Research. Community Connect to Research, 23 

June 2010. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.

"What Is Cervical Cancer?" What Is Cervical Cancer? American Cancer Society, 19 

Sept. 2014. Web. 21 Nov. 2014.

c) Completed.

d) For my independent component, I researched two of today's most common diseases, cervical cancer and type 1 diabetes. I researched all about what the diseases are, how they can be contracted, how they affect the body, and what the treatments are. I then related my research to my essential question of how a doctor can maximize a patient's satisfaction. I gathered my information from articles as well as my mentor and the phlebotomist at my mentorship. I have provided evidence of my completion of the component through an essay, which is posted here in pictures.

INTERPRETIVE

My research and essay is significant to my project because it is important to my essential question. My essential question is: what is the best way for a doctor to maximize patient satisfaction? Well, a doctor cannot satisfy their patient unless they can care for them well. And a doctor cannot care for their patient in the utmost well manner, if they do not fully understand what is wrong with the patient and what the patient is going through. Therefore, I decided to research two of the most common diseases that patients have, that doctors need to fully understand, to create satisfied patients.

I gathered a lot of research and so have presented it in an essay. It shows my 34 hours of work because there is so much research in it that I have collected over the past two months. I go very into depth with the subject.

APPLIED

  The component helped me understand my topic better because I got a better sense on what a doctor must do to make sure that their patient is satisfied. This is to understand fully, all that is happening with the patient. One example of this is with one man that I met at mentorship who needed to get his blood drawn. Before Yaneli could take his blood, she asked a series of questions to the patient, to understand how well his bodily health was. After, she saw that he had diabetes. She told Dr. Bishara, who gave the patient medication for treatment. The patient was satisfied in the end because he knew he had the opportunity to get better, after all the understanding and attention the doctor had given them.