Pepsico

Shaun Miller

Values

1) How does your state of health affect your life? On a daily basis? The big picture?

2) What gives your life meaning? (What is important in your life?)

3) Are you a religious person? Are you a spiritual person? If so, what are you beliefs? Do your beliefs help you deal with illness? Do you belong to a religious or spiritual community? If so, what does it mean to you or how does it help you?

4) What goals do you have for the future?

5) What fears or worries do you have? In general? About being sick?

6) What are your thoughts about death? Have you given much thought to it?

7) How would you like your health care providers to address these issues when caring for you?

Values (Self)

1) How does your state of health affect your life? On a daily basis? The big picture? A) I believe the state of my health plays an enormous role in my day to day life. Being in the healthcare field I see everyday how people's lives are drastically changed when there good health turns to illness. This experience has allowed me to value my current state of health and not take it for granted. I try to tell my self everyday, as much as I can, to heed the medical advice of my own profession so I can try to maintain my health for as long as possible. The main active health issues in my life right now are diet and exercise Ð'- two things that I need to work on the most. With med school hours and my brilliant excuses I am not at the healthy level I would like to be in these two areas. In terms of the big picture, I believe ones physical and mental health is paramount to any possession one could ever acquire. This state of health is a major determinant in the quality of life one can lead because bad health often limits the places we can go, the people we can see, and things we can do.

2) What gives your life meaning? (What is important in your life?)

A) Meaning in my life is extracted from G-d, Family, and friends. Through G-d's gift of life, I am able to try and make a positive difference in this world. Without being surrounded by a loving family, close friends, and G-d's presence, I would have no meaning in my life.

3) Are you a religious person? Are you a spiritual person? If so, what are you beliefs? Do your beliefs help you deal with illness? Do you belong to a religious or spiritual community? If so, what does it mean to you or how does it help you?

A) Yes, I am a religious and spiritual person. I believe in the Old Testament according to the Jewish tradition. My beliefs do help me deal with illness, by

giving me a deeper understanding as to why someone might suffer from an illness. Also, with meaning in my life, I have the desire to shake the illness and move on with my life to continue making the world a better place. I am an active member in the Jewish community. There are many aspects of the Jewish community that assist people who are less fortunate, especially people with illness. There is a big emphasis within the Jewish community to visit and provide for the sick. This provides a tremendous deal of encouragement and inspiration to fight through an ailment.

4) What goals do you have for the future?

A) My immediate goal for the future is to finish up medical school in a fashion where I can extract the best possible training/knowledge so I can practice safe and effective medicine. On top of this, I would like to start a family and build a home that embodies love and good values.

5) What fears or worries do you have? In general? About being sick?

A) I occasionally have fears that I will contract one of the horrible diseases that take your life at a young age. Being a medical student doesn't help this fear because it just supplies me with a list of these diseases making them all a real possibility in my eyes. Luckily, these fears are fairly transient and don't debilitate me with panic. I would just hate to suffer at such a young age, and leave so much opportunity to do stuff in this world behind. I also have fears of family members getting seriously sick, and having to deal with the pain of having bad health strike someone I really care about.

6) What are your thoughts about death? Have you given much thought to it?

I do think about death occasionally. Through my third year in medical school, I have only faced the death of a patient twice and for some reason that I am not quite sure of I was able to deal with it fine. Throughout my life though, I have always pondered the question of what happens when we die. I generally believe that there is an afterlife where all of one's good deeds on this earth entitle a person to a good experience in the afterworld. I don't try to understand it too much, or delve into it through my religion. I believe that one shouldn't be focused on death and the afterlife, and just live everyday on earth to its fullest.

7) How would you like your health care providers to address these issues when caring for you?

All I ask of health care providers is to be sensitive to your patients' religious beliefs. Finding out what drives a person, gives them meaning, and provides them with rules in life is crucial in determining what they want out of your healthcare. Other than that, I don't think it is necessary to get into religious discussions with your patiens.

Values (Prediction for my patient)

95 y/o, white male, with h/o of MI, stroke, melanoma, cataracts, macula degeneration

1) How does your state of health affect your life? On a daily basis? The big picture? A- I believe, since this patient has a long history of multiple medical problems, that this patient would state that his health problems have had a major effect on his life. I am sure he will have a lot of stories about the discomforts of being in a hospital and how one's life can be turned upside down with an illness. He might even have some regrets of things that he should have done when he was younger to prevent having to deal with some of his illnesses. Since some of these issues are active including the cataracts, macula