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          20% Time Project Proposal

Name: Nate Levy

Project Title: Med Ed.

Project Start Date: 11/7/2014

Project Completion Date: 5/15/15

Mentor’s Name: Mrs. Browning, the editors at Medical News Today, a friend of mine named Will, and my uncle

Brief Description: Explore the world of medical science, learning the ropes one step at a time. 

Overview of Project Proposal

1) Project Objective: My objective for Med Ed. is the skills needed to be known in the profession of being a doctor. Each post is a tutorial for a useful skill, as far as dealing with injuries goes. I really want to create a blog that’s worth-while to read, yet, educational at the same time for both me and the readers.

2) Project Rationale: I wanted to do this project because my goal in life is to accept a career in the division in medical sciences or biology. I figured that by helping myself, I can also help the people out there with the same goals of mine. It’s also a very fun and rewarding activity.

3) Project Steps:

1. Create a blog

2. Write an introduction

3. Do research and decide on a topic to tackle that week

4. Write the post keeping to my topic while adding fun commentary

5. Slowly learn and educate on this profession

4) Timeline of Activities:

November 7- Created a blog and wrote the introduction

November 10- Wrote my first real post discussing first aid for harsh conditions

November 14- Wrote my second post in the first aid series discussing broken bones

November 19- Wrote my third post in the first aid series discussing anything I may have missed.

5) Available Human and Material Resources: Available human resources are any doctors, a few friends of mine, and my uncle. Materials are Medical News Today, the book, Basic Human Biology, and anything else I can scrape up on the internet.

6) Possible Road Blocks: Possible road blocks include a lack of topics, a lack of inspiration, and some of this stuff may be complicated.

7) Research Questions:

1. What do you do in the case of broken bones? Answered

2. How do brain surgeons work?

3. How do heart surgeons work?

4. What are some of the important medical supplies needed?

5. How many weeks will it take to cover half of this material?

Day 3- First Aid 2- 11/14/2014

Welcome, future doctors of America or any where you live. My name is Nate, and welcome back to Med Ed, the blog that can teach you how to save a life in a few clicks and some of your time. How's everyone doing? Anyway, welcome to first aid part 2, broken bones. This post is brought to you by little dots. Little dots, making papers organized since forever.

• First up is an ankle or wrist. If your patient has just fallen down a hill and twisted an ankle, here's what to do. If you are close to society, help them to a place to rest, ice the wound, and get some help. Notice, if you are out in the woods or something, do not take off their shoe as the foot will not fit back into it, giving them half the walking speed and double the effort. For wrists, use a sling. Tie it behind their neck and give the arm and wrist some support. They should be good from there. Remember to also ice it. 
• Second, we're taking on the back and neck. If your patient is taken a tumble down the stairs, here's what you have to do. First of all, don't move the injured person. Moving them risks further injury to the back or neck. Call 911. There's no way for you to help them anymore besides get them out of danger.
• Third of our first aid for broken bones list is ribs. Mr. Patient fell of a small cliff onto a rock shattering his ribs. What do you do? Tell them to keep breathing even if it hurts. If they don't, they could get pneumonia in the long run. After which, get help. 911 is a good place to check. They usually squeeze life threatening injuries into their schedule. Also, they may suffer from internal bleeding. You can't do much about that, though.
• Finally, we come to legs. Straighten the fracture out and splint it. Call for help.    

Day 2- First Aid- 11/10/2014

Welcome, welcome, welcome ladies and gents, to Med Ed. The blog where you can learn how to save a life with a simple click and some of your time. It turns out that pre med is a real pain in the wallet, and I'm to young to have a job. Instead, I figured I could go with plan B. Learn about the world of being a doctor. Today, I figured we'd go in a nice, easy direction that won't be too, too hard... First Aid. First Aid isn't just important for any future medical genius to know, it's all about being prepared. This isn't necessarily the most "direct subject" ,so I'll take it a few steps at a time on different days, today we have the harsh environments of the ever so cruel mother nature. Harsh environments If your patient is out there in the cold and is looking a little blue, he needs some help. Cold sweats, discoloration of the skin, and extreme shivering are what you should be looking for in the cases of hypothermia and frost bite. Don't just throw them into the hot tub. They need to warm up slowly to reduce shock. When enough of the blood from affected body parts freezes, it will turn blackish. These body parts are most likely dead. They might need to be amputated, but for the sake of all things holy don't do it yourself. If your patient is sweating like a pig after a relaxing walk through the desert, he needs some help. As far as conditions such as hyperthermia or heat stroke, you should be looking for things like a lack of sweat, dizziness, puking, and cramping. They need to sit in the shade and slowly drink a cool, COOL, not frozen, glass of water. Not many people understand that. Again, shock is a bad thing. Don't throw them in the neighbor's pool either. First, they might go into shock, and second, it's against the law. Now, stay safe and lawful ,and I'll see you next time on... Med Ed!!! With Nate.

Day 1- The Beggining- 11/7/2014

Well, today I'm starting a 20% project. I, Nate Levy, have the goal of taking a pre-pre med course (or learn as much about being a doctor as possible) while offering funny and entertaining commentary. Anyway, me, wanting to be a doctor, will be on the epic journey to becoming a genetically modified turtle... or I could be a doctor I guess. Listen, I'll make a deal with you. I'll give out free money because why not? Money is amazing... and really has nothing to do with being Dr. Levy PhD. Obviously, I need to focus. Who cares, thought I haven't even started yet and I'm basically trying to stall and steal your time like a metaphorical robber. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, I proudly present you with  the presentation of... MED ED!!! Now in color!!!