Choose one of the following roles as you imagine yourself as someone from a completely different background than yours:
- African American in Chicago's inner city
- Someone in the rural Midwest
- Immigrant new to the states in New York
- Successful professional businessperson working in downtown Chicago
- Older inmate located on Rikers Island
Create 900- to 1,050-word short story, describing health care utilization through time, birth to death, from this unfamiliar perspective.
Include the following:
- Describe your routine health care.
- What was health care like when you were young?
- Did you get immunization shots?
- Did your parents take you to a family doctor for an annual exam?
- What was health care like when you were:
- A young adult
- An older adult
- Describe at least one episode of acute care, such as your experience with bad fever, deep cut, broken bone, or the like.
- Describe care for at least one form of chronic care, such as diabetes, asthma, or high blood pressure.