Days 3 & 4

This post includes day 3 and day 4 for my mentor log hours. Day 3 consisted of more info about chiropractic. Dr. Cheng introduced more ideas and some more info about what he does with his patients. We talked about Malpractice which is as he described it "If a doctor or a chiropractor does not do his or her job and misses an injury that kept that patient from moving or worse death." That's what malpractice is. We looked at more files about his former patients to get an idea of how he dos his observations. I observed more patients who came in for their adjustments and their posture before and after their visit with Dr. Cheng.

Day 4 seemed like a non busy day for Dr. Cheng because he had no patients scheduled. He introduced me his idea for marketing, which is a simple greeting card and a refrigerator magnet that he will send to his patients around this years Christmas. Dr. Cheng really likes to explain what he talks about because he gave me a lecture about marketing. But I didn't mind because he wants people to understand what he is talking about and tries not to confuse them. Anyways I had to count the cards and organize them. Took me about 45 minutes to count 1023 cards and organize them neatly in a box and label each pile. After Dr. Cheng showed me something really cool, an actual MRI scan or picture or graph, I forgot what they are called. It was really cool seeing someone's spine and what that patient is having problems with. Dr. Cheng gave me another lecture between X-Rays and MRI and the main difference between them. I really learned a lot on Day 4 and I'm getting comfortable around my work place. Until next time....

-Ya Boii John!!

Time logged in: 2.5 hours (Day 3&4 combined)
Time in total: 5.5 hours

Day 2

This is a late post, these hours were done on Tuesday earlier this week. For day 2 of my internship at Dr. Cheng's office, we mainly discussed how he evaluates his patients before he physically treats them. He showed me a paper with some basic questions like "What do you feel?" or "What's hurting?" with diagrams so he can doodle what part of the patient's body is hurting. Dr. Cheng calls this his SOAP (Subjective Objective Assessment Plan) notes sheet. The sheet has five sections: Subjective is for finding out what is the patient is feeling, Objective is for what Dr. Cheng can infer based on his findings from the patient, Assessment is for the diagnosis that Dr.Cheng makes, Plan is for how he will treat these problems and give directions that the patient will follow to get better, and the last section is for the codes of the treatment to record data. Then I looked at old files he had in the back room and told me I could help him file them electronically and shred the papers soon. He left the office for a few minutes and I kinda took over for him but all I did was tell the patients that he was gone and he'll come back in a few. I did more observations on the patients and looked for minor details like how they looked after the treatment compared to how they looked before. This is a tool Dr. Cheng uses to tell if something positive happened to the patients and are on their way to recovery. Well that is it for now, at this stage its still pretty early for me to be watching an actual adjustment but in the future I'm sure I will experience it. Until next time.......

-Ya boii John!

Time logged: 2hrs
Time logged in total: 3hrs

Day 1

Today I visited Dr. Cheng's (my mentor) office after school. He asked me what I knew about chiropractic care and I told him my knowledge based on the research I did. Then, he gave me a tour of the work place and introduced me to the rest of the employees. He had to finish treating his patients so I had to wait for a few minutes. I sat on the massage chair he had in the office and it felt so good on my back. Dr. Cheng then asked me what I observed while waiting for him and I told him I was watching the fish in his aquarium. We shared a laugh and he told me that listening is a key tool he uses for determining what's wrong with his patients. He told more background info about Chiropractic care and why he loves it. I learned that this type of therapy has high benefits with low risk for patients. Basically seeing a chiropractor is safer than taking medicine. He explained that his work can help an injured athlete to get back to their game at 100% because he helps the recovery process to speed up. I asked him what he would like me to do in his office in the future and he told me I would most likely be just observing and organizing paperwork. He'll try to get me to watch one of his adjustments with his patients. I would like to do and learn more while working under Dr. Cheng in the future. That's all for now folks, until next time.....

-Ya boii John!

Time logged in: 1hr
Time logged total: 1hr

A letter to Macbeth

Dear Lord Macbeth, 
Greetings my lord. After evaluating you I have concluded that you have multiple personality disorders. According to the results you scored very high on being Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Narcissistic. Being paranoid means that you have a hard time trusting the people around you. You can tell that you have this disorder by identifying the following: unwillingness to forgive perceived insults, excessive sensitivity to setbacks, or distrustful of others and excessive self-reliance. Being Schizotypal means you suffer from schizophrenia. Basically you think and perceive things in an odd way. You may also think you have an extra sense, maybe seeing things that only you can see like a ghost maybe. Symptoms of thing disorder include: odd or eccentric mannerisms or appearance, superstitious or preoccupied with paranormal phenomena, and difficult to follow speech patterns. And finally being narcissistic means you are very self-centered. That means you over exaggerate your achievements and you don't care for other's feelings. Symptoms of this include: lack of empathy, lying, to self and to others, and takes advantage of others. You may want to consider to treat these disorders as they are not healthy for your social life. Do not worry my lord because i have solutions for your problems. I recommend treating your paranoia  by hiring a psychotherapist. They will help you cope with your trust issues by doing trust exercises with you. As for your Schizotypal disorder, i also recommend seeing a psychotherapist so they can help you by performing social skills training to treat your social situations. lastly, i recommend again seeing a psychotherapist or you may consider group therapy so you won't have to deal with the treatment alone. Follow my instructions and you should see improvement on your social life. If you still have any questions you can contact me by a messenger boy. 
Sincerely,
Dr. John Dela Cruz       

Fiscal Cliff: Democrat and Republican views

To start things off, what is the "fiscal cliff"? From what I read over my research the "fiscal cliff" is the analogy used to describe a series of tax cuts and government spending cuts by the U.S government. There are two probable outcomes if the federal government would pass these laws. On the negative view, this will bring the economy down to a recession and the tax rate will increase. On the positive view, it will cut the federal budget deficit. President Obama and democrats want to approve these laws and only tax people who make $250,000 or more per year. Republicans on the other hand believe that this won't improve the economy but wreck it.They believe it will impact the big businesses and they will go broke as well.

I used a few tools while using Google to help me with my research. Some were helpful but others were irrelevant. I used the "most relevant" and "related searches" search tools and those were the most helpful. I also used the operator "OR" for my search. All of these tools help to narrow down the websites that were more reliable than the others. They gave me related topics like "fiscal cliff republicans" and it gave me the republican view of the "fiscal cliff". The operator "OR" gave me websites on both views of my search. The "any time" tool was not helpful because it just gave me the same websites and there was no adversity. All these tools are cool to use but i don't see myself using a lot of them for my research.

Like the video (Career Options)

After doing the survey, my type came out to be the Conventional type. Those who are lean toward this type prefer structured and organized activities. They like to have a clear understanding of expectations and follow established procedures. Conventional types may have strong verbal and numerical abilities and prefer to avoid unorganized activities. A few majors in this type are: Accounting, Education, Marketing, Criminal Justice, Management, and Social Work. Unfortunately these majors are not what i'm interested in at this time. I want to pursue a career in game development or massage therapy. This survey was a little off topic from what i want to become but it did give me a few ideas of other options like a career in management. I like to keep things organized and i like working with planned out material. 

Enjoy this viral video if you get bored.

Yo peepz read my post cuz its off the heezy!!!

In my opinion, a hero is someone who helps out society, whether saving children from a burning orphanage or helping a granny cross the street. Yeah sure all those guys you read off comics who have superpowers (like Superman, Aqua-man  or the Green Lantern) are good but i don't really care for them because i believe they are not real. In reality anyone can be a hero, they just have to have a good mind set and they want to help out other people. The volunteers who work in third world countries to help out the less fortunate are heroes for me because they take their time to help out people. They are very unselfish and they actually care about others. Those traits are basically what I think someone has to have to be a hero.