Blog #18|: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is your essential question?
How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?

2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?
Doctors should treat their patients with an understanding of their suffering from chronic pain.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

       1. Patients trust their doctors. according to this article from Healthy Living, patients obviously trust their lives with their doctors. They trust that their doctors will help them heal and get better and ultimately live a healthier life. If doctors show their patients that they care, then patients will trust their doctors more and have the reassurance of a full recovery or effective treatment that they need.
       2. Helps the physician treat their patients more effectively.
       3. This will help the physicians understand and respect the chronic pain sufferer's physical       limitations.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
Interview with Dr. Hirst and an article about How to understand patients with chronic pain.

5.  What do you plan to study next and why?

Different treatments for chronic pain. 

Blog #17|: Fourth Interview Questions

1. How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?

2. What is the most complicated thing about chronic pain?

3. What is the most complicated thing about treating chronic pain?

4. How can these challenges be resolved?

5. What are some important things to keep in mind when treating a patient suffering from chronic pain?

6. How do you approach sensitive patients that are in a lot of pain with the most compassion and care as possible?

7. What are some things that all patients suffering from chronic pain should know in order to cope with their medical conditions?

8. What are some good relaxation techniques to recommend to patients?

9. Does regular exercise help to relieve pain?

10. How does regular exercise help to relieve pain?

11. What is the most common cause of chronic pain?

12. What is the least common cause of chronic pain?

13. How are acute and chronic pain treated differently?

14. How is chronic pain usually harder to treat?

15. Does chronic pain usually take longer to treat?

16. How is chronic pain curable?

17. What are the odds that someone diagnosed with chronic pain may actually be healed from their medical condition?

18. How can chronic pain get worse?

19. How can surgery be performed to treat or heal chronic pain?

20. What are some non- traditional therapies for chronic pain?

21. How are they as effective as modern techniques?

22. How does technology play an important role in treating chronic pain?

23. How can someone die from chronic pain?

24. Is it true that chronic pain can lead to depression? How?

25. What are the odds that chronic pain does lead to depression?

Blog #16|: 2 Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is your essential Question?
       How can an Anesthesiologist best treat Chronic Pain?


2. What is your second answer to your essential question? 
        It is important for a physician treating a patient with chronic pain to have detailed knowledge about the patient's medical background and history. 



3. What are three details to support or justify your answer? 

✔  anesthesiologist will be able to pinpoint cause of the pain

✔ anesthesiologist will then be able to work with the patient to plan an effective treatment plan.

✔  if an anesthesiologist tries to treat a patient without an overall knowledge of a patient's medical history, the treatments may be ineffective 


4. what source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question? 
   
Interview with Dr, Hirst from Riverside Community Hospital. 


5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer & why? 

I plan to study complications in chronic pain as a result of different health conditions. According to Dr. Hirst treatments can be altered or more complicated if the patient has bad medical history or health problems (for example, chronic diseases). 

Blog #15|: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1.  Mentorship with a specialist in pain management . 

2. If I do mentorship hours I will hopefully exceed the expected hours requirement for Independent Component 2. 

3. Mentorship hours will definitely allow me to learn more and get some experience with my topic of anesthesiology focusing on chronic pain management.