Creative thinking

                             Comments.  Position  dewey4 "Thank you for this piece. It is a decision that only the patient can make.  We could easily afford the care if we as a society gave up our bad habits like smoking, drinking, obesity, and drug abuse. " Position: in this case, this comment is a position because the person is explaining that we, as a society, can afford the care if we give up our bad habits.  Description   BridgeWatcher NYC My husband died of cancer two years ago.  He was 57.  I will never forget when the doctor told us to contact hospice. That phrase, "go weak in the knees" literally happened. Even though my rational mind knew it was time--I was on the phone with him at home because he was too weak to come in to the doctor's office--I couldn't believe the end had come like that.  And it was...

by reading this article we can identify the different examples of critical thinking skills.             My patients are dying. But it’s their right to keep going. Introduction Isaac Chan is a medical oncology fellow at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. “Dr. Chan, please, please keep me alive a little longer and God will surely bless you.”   Description I am watching a 68-year-old man fall apart. He has been through five different types of chemotherapies, yet his kidney cancer continues to grow and metastasize, spreading to different organs. He now sits hunched in his wheelchair. With his worsening diarrhea, and sores in his mouth, he no longer eats with pleasure. Sleeping a few hours without pain has become a luxury. Down the hall at our teaching hospital, another patient sits silently, diagnosed with gallbladder cancer that has metastasized in...

REFLECTION TASK First Reflection : Emotional self-management The emotions are difficult to  manage when arguing with others, In my personal case i consider myself sometimes as rude because when  I try to defend my opinion just when know that  i have strong  arguments, i feel  angry,   but sometimes when i am not clearly sure, i respect other's opinions and i try to complement or help to analyze the pros and the cons. when i have those feelings, i try to keep calm, breathe, and not to say anything, and  when i feel better  i try  to discuss, because i know that opinions depends on different ways humans experience life. Second Reflection : Influences on my thinking I am not consider myself as an easy person to influence, however when people have strong arguments and there are more people in agreement, i just consider the opinions, and i reflect and compare those arguments. i always try to analize, and be dialogic with people....

  Stephen Brookfield on Creative & Critical Thinking  In this lecture, Stephen starts talking about his studies, his performances as a student and the importance to understand the roles that are generated within the classroom, the teacher being and the role depends a lot on what the teacher has been learned as a student, this is how is able to face and help a situation, when the teacher has already lived. For Stephen, critical thinking is a mental process, where the different decisions we make in life are evaluated, that is, we rely on assumptions to make decisions, and that in terms of creativity is the way in which we take into account the different points of view or the different edges of a situation. From the concepts of critical thinking and creative Brookfield explain 3 different types of assumptions: •casual: it has to do with the assumptions we make in our daily life that has to do directly with the cause and effect relationship. • prescriptive : ass...