solved An original response to one (of three) of the questions

An original response to one (of three) of the questions below is required by 11:59 pm on Thursday, 4/29/21, and two comments to others’ posts are required by 11:59 pm on Saturday, 5/1/21. (See the syllabus for details on how these are graded.)

For this “mock qualitative research” assignment, you will respond to one of the three questions below. But first, you will need to listen to Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You, which is an excerpt from the Diane Rehm Show that will serve as our “pretend” qualitative data. (The audio file is in Module 13 on Blackboard.) As you listen to the transcript, brainstorm different ideas about potential codes, themes, research questions (things you would want to know if you were initiating a study on this topic), and key informants (people you would want to interview).

An original response to one (of three) of the questions below is required by 11:59 pm on Thursday, 4/29/21, and two comments to others’ posts are required by 11:59 pm on Saturday, 5/1/21. (See the syllabus for details on how these are graded.)

For this “mock qualitative research” assignment, you will respond to one of the three questions below. But first, you will need to listen to Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You, which is an excerpt from the Diane Rehm Show that will serve as our “pretend” qualitative data. (The audio file is in Module 13 on Blackboard.) As you listen to the transcript, brainstorm different ideas about potential codes, themes, research questions (things you would want to know if you were initiating a study on this topic), and key informants (people you would want to interview).

I’ve attached a transcript of the talk here: Excerpt Diane Rehm Unaccountable – What Hospitals Won’t Tell You

Please share some of the “codes” you identified while listening to the transcript. If you identified any larger overarching “themes,” share those, too.
What are some of the research questions that you came away with after listening to this excerpt? What do you want to know?
To answer the questions you’re interested in, who would you study? Who would be your “key informants”? Why? What do you hope they can tell you?                                      
        
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w9f8955y0c4gzho/Diane%20… 

student 1
There are many codes that I picked up on as I was listening to this interview. First Dr. Makary kept mentioning data. How hospitals collect all of this data, and the consumers who the data is about cannot see their own data. Then he goes on and talks about that hospitals have a bad system, and if people saw all of that data then they would know how the health care system is bad. He mentions that the data would show how patients get unnecessary treatment, some get overtreated, and some undertreated. This shows and goes with the theme of how we do not have the best system. Another code was how doctors do not do anything about complaints from patients or the bad treatments they are getting/got. Patient inputs are not valued, and that doctor’s kind of force patients to do things that they do not want to do such as getting a certain type of treatment or having an extensive surgery. The overall theme that I got from the codes is that the health care system is bad and that it should be changed, because Dr. Makary mentioned in his interview doctors want to do whatever they want, and that they are not delivering patient safety and quality of care.

Student 2
In an interview with Dr. Marty Makary, the author of,” Unaccountable: What hospitals won’t tell you and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care” spoke about the lack of transparency between hospitals and the public. Dr. Makary went into detail about how corrupt the healthcare system is, she spoke about the numerous amount of misdiagnosis that occurs, procedures that did not have to occur, and disinterest in patient’s wellbeing. Listening to the interview was shocking, to say the least, because the public should have data about the different hospitals that they are going to go to. Knowing this information would benefit a lot of people because patients will have all the necessary information needed about that hospital, through that, they are able to make decisions about where they want to receive care.
Here are the research questions that I have and want to get answers to: Why haven’t the hospitals had the incentive to release this knowledge to the public? What would happen if people were more informed about hospital data? Who makes sure that hospitals are held accountable? What kind of data are hospitals not releasing to the public? How many hospitals hide their data from the public? How can people put their trust in the doctors just to be considered a pawn in a chess game? How can we move forward with making sure that hospitals are transparent? What will it take? Where is the data stored and how can someone access it?