Therapeutic Analysis

When I first started out this class, my writing skill was a mess. In the past two months, I feel my writing skills had improved a little. This is probably one of the hardest classes I’ve taken mainly because of the formatting but it challenges me improved my writing skill. Starr is not an easy book to read, so it shaped me to critically think read between the lines of text. In the future, I’ll brainstorm and write an outline before typing out the paper and annotating what I’m reading. I find annotating and summarizing what I’m reading helps because I can go back to my notes and find what I’m looking for.
Therapeutics is essentially a branch of medicine that deals with specifically with treatments of diseases according to in-class discussion. Examples of therapeutics are physical therapy, alternative medicine, gene therapy, physiotherapy, and etcetera. The types of therapeutics that someone most likely encounters in the U.S are prescription and over the counter drugs. Prescriptions drugs require a physician’s note in order to access the medicine. Usually, with the prescriptions drugs, the physicians have the ability to control the treatment for the patient, which maintain their professional authority.
A lobbyist is hired by the corporation to protect the interest of the pharmaceutical industry. An example of lobbyist to get a patent for a drug so the competition can’t invent the same drug as the company is developing. Marketing is another role in the health care system. Advertising is the key to promoting a product. Once a consumer learns about a drug along with the symptom that is associated with the illness, they will consult with their doctors and might end up purchasing the drug. Lastly supplying is a role that the industry plays in the health care system. These industries supply with an innovated drugs that help keep human