A few days ago
Anonymous

Oh no! I have to think for myself.?

up until now the homework assignments that I’ve had have involved looking up information and providing references. This assignment I have now, I’m not sure how to go about it because it requires a little independent thinking. I’m throwing it out here to get some ideas of what to include in my paper. Ok, I have to write 5-7 paragraphs on what the motivation is to learn medical terminology. The argument is, if you are unfamiliar with a word you can just ask the doctor, or look it up in a medical dictionary, or go online and find the answer. What is the purpose behind trying to memorize pages and pages of medical terms. I’m supposed to provide the reasons why you WOULD learn medical terminology for your job (in the medical field). The only thing I can think of is it would make your job harder if you had to stop and take the time to look up words in the dictionary everytime you encountered one. But that doesn’t take up 5-7 paragraphs. Any other ideas?

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A few days ago
Corona

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OK, first paragraph,

“Someone actually taking the time to learn the definition of medical terms would greatly benefit over the person that chose to take the easy way out by asking “What does that mean?” with conversations they will encounter in the work place.

First, it will open more doors for the person that takes the time to learn the medical terms because an employer will be more impressed with someone they aren’t going to have to explain everything to.

Next, learning medical terms will be beneficial if that person ever decides to become a nurse, or even a doctor. That person will be one step ahead of the ordinary person that didn’t bother learning the terminology.

Finally, just the comfort of not having to stop and look up every word will increase speed and production, which in turn might lead to a well deserved pay raise.

I personally feel that learning medical terms will benefit me in the job I am seeking now and ones that might become available in the future.

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A few days ago
D S♦T♦A♦R♦S
Well the thing about memorizing so much information if its important in your job field is because you dont have to rely on books or other people to tell you the answers you may seek. Also in the event of an emergency you will know everything there is to know and you wouldnt be stuck in finding out what this or that means. Also you may be able to assist other people who might need your help with MD terminology. I mean those are just a few points in why you need to know the medical terminology I’m sure theres far more reasons why.
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A few days ago
chem-mystry
well

I am a pharmacy technician, and tehre are lots of word using in medication and in prescriptions they a common man cant understand just a pharmacy people can. The reason behind that is that no one other than pharmacy person would be able to read it. Some times there is a line on prescription counter and anyone can know abt ur personal date or personal medication.

so everything is kind of in code language.

{the medical terminology is important as we know that in anatomy physiology every body part have different name so in medical field doctors and pharmacist use these terminologies called medical terminologies. So it s impotant for any proeson related to health field to know abt them.

In some school like cod www.cod.edu classes about medical terminology are also offering

its Health sciences 1110; medical terminolgy; with out this class you cant got to any health field as its pre requisite for all

i hope now u know better

good luck with paper

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A few days ago
Anonymous
a five paragraph essay consists of one introductory paragraph, one concluding paragraph, and 3 supporting paragraphs.

so you need 3 reasons. you must come up with those on your own, or it’s not your paper. but think about how it would look if you didn’t know some terms, what kind of confidence that would inspire in your patients. you said it would “make your job harder if you had to stop and take the time to look up words in the dictionary everytime you encountered one”. think about exactly HOW it would make your job harder…

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A few days ago
sean h
write about how it would make your job easier. then write about how it would look to a patient, if a doctor threw madical jargon at you and you had no idea what he was talking about. it wiould make a patient who came to you in their hour of need pretty uncomfortable and more worried. you would also look foolish to the other doctors and not knowiung the terms can hold you back from recieving any type of promotions in your career. for more examples, i honestly recommend watching the tv show SCRUBS. it may seem silly but you would get a visual of how you would wanna look in the patients room. and what if the patient told you he suffered from something and you didnt knw what he meant. not knowing this stuff can get you written up and possibly fired.

add and intro and a conclusion and you shoul be good to go.

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A few days ago
Cath
medical field? if you were a nurse, would you be trying to ask a doctor every single terminology question? What if you were a specialist who had to get confirmation on a case? What if you were a 911 operator?
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A few days ago
Anna D
Well, if as part of your job you should know medical terms, then you will need to learn them otherwise you’ll look like an idiot who doesn’t know anything. Think about it, would you trust a doctor who didn’t know what he was talking about? Or a nurse that doesn’t know the name of a disease?
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A few days ago
Underground Man
You’re not thinking for yourself if you’re asking us to do your thinking for you. Try thinking about it yourself.
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A few days ago
d418d
dont feel like reading all that
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