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Savannah Lacoste
Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies
Background Information
Savannah Lacoste
Concentrations:
Pre-Medical Student Professional Healthcare
and English
Understanding of their
awareness of the problem,
If so, what language should be opinion on possible solutions,
the universal medical and experience as a medical
language, and why? professional
Statement of Methodology:
Quantitative Research
Questionnaire survey sent out Sixteen questions including:
through email and manually matrix rating scale style,
given out at various hospitals multiple choice, and check all
along the gulf coast of that apply
Mississippi and Alabama
Gather background
Survey given to doctors, information on the
nurses, nurse practitioners, participant, as well as their
physicians assistants, or opinions on the language
anyone who works in the barrier and the importance of
medical field daily a unified language in
medicine
Execution of Research Design:
Focus Group
Dr. Paetz "We all live in N.P. Im not sure if a
America, where the main universal medical language
language is English, the only would benefit unless it was
way we experience the effects taught to the patients as well,
of a language barrier is so if youre not able to teach
physician to patient the laypeople, then you lose
conversation." your effectiveness
Savannah Lacoste
Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies