Blog 18 – Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?
How can a team of medical professionals ensure the health and well-being of a patient?

2. What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
A team of medical professionals can ensure the health and well-being of a patient by providing collaborative patient care.

3. What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
A team of medical professionals can ensure the health and well-being of a patient by educating the patient.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
• Patient should understand his or her medical condition in order to be open to options for treatment.
• Patient should understand how options for treatment work towards ensuring his or her health in order to comply with doctor's orders.
• Patient should be properly educated on self-treatment (for example physical therapy) in order to ensure his or her well-being and recovery.

5. What printed source best supports your answer?
• Chen, Pauline. "For New Doctors, 8 Minutes Per Patient." Well For New Doctors 8 Minutes Per Patient Comments. The New York Times, 30 May 2013. Web. 12 Oct. 2015. <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/for-new-doctors-8-minutes-per-patient/?_r=0>.

6. What other source supports your answer?
My mentor who I interviewed for my first interview strongly agrees with my answer.

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.
This second answer builds upon and supports my first answer in that it goes a little more in-depth on how medical professionals can provide collaborative care. I could have included this under my first answer but it's too long (and requires a better explanation) so I decided to have it separate and as a second answer.