Apa Reflection Journal

My writing has improved as a result of this course. I now know the difference between writing an essay and writing a journal. I learned that in a journal, just getting to the point is best. When it comes to writing a journal, quality is more important than quantity. My APA skills have also improved as a result of this course. My ability to think critically also changed as a result of this course. For example, the questions that are given in lecture are not easy. Your answer requires reasoning and support such as examples from a reading. This also applies to the presentations that we are assigned to do. We need reasoning and support. This has improved my critical thinking and it is something that I will keep on doing to further develop my writing and critical thinking.
Reaction Notes According to what we discussed in lecture, therapeutics is a branch of medicine that focuses on treatments of diseases. As discussed in lecture, the different types of therapeutics that someone can encounter in the U.S are drugs, either prescription drugs or over-the-counter drugs, psychotherapy, physical therapy, immunotherapy, etc. Corporations and industries play a huge role in the overall health …show more content…
Pharmaceuticals are responsible for providing prescription drugs that are needed in hospitals and other health care facilities. Pharmaceuticals market their products by lobbying in health care facilities. In lecture, it was brought up how you see always pharmaceutical drugs being advertised on television or in any social media. According to lecture, pharmaceutical advertisements are directed at us, their main goal is to do two things. The first one is to alerts us that symptoms that we may have are sign of a disease, the second is that they make us look up the symptoms in the internet. When we do that, we eventually go to the doctors and explain to them that we may suffer from a certain