The Key to Communication?

Communication between doctor and patient is not just talking to the patient about what ails them. It is about the way in which the doctor goes about talking to the patient and how they choose their way depending upon age. As I have learned, thus far in my project, it is ingrained in our nature to change our behavior depending upon our settings. At first, it feels like a conscious effort to change our behavior to say act more mature because less children are around or act like a child while playing with your cousins, but in the end, it slowly becomes your subconscious making the calls.  Through my time at POA I have learned that doctors go into appointments with an idea of how to communicate with the patient based on age. For example, if the patient is young, they will go in and make jokes and make them comfortable while if the patient was more our age, they would attempt to focus mainly on us because we are old enough now to communicate on our own.

As an update to the actual project portion of my project, I have 44 completed surveys as of today. Due to some complication, I may be staying at POA through Friday and then switching to the vets office, where I have to figure out a new way to answer my essential question as I found out today. In conclusion, everything seems to be going well and I am anxiously awaiting the end result.