Survey Reflection:

My survey was about misdiagnosis and other medicine related diseases/donations. Some of the things I found interesting from the results of my survey were how little people knew about misdiagnosis. Everyone agreed that misdiagnosis could be the patients fault and that misdiagnosis could be fetal. However those are the only two things all my surveyors agreed on. The rest of my results were very scattered, almost a 50-50 split between the options, and that was why I didn’t use my survey results in my final research essay much. For example, only 56% of the people who took my survey knew that misdiagnosis is related to physician malpractice. I also found it interesting that only 48% of the people surveyed said they ask their physician questions when they have them after an appointment. That is an alarmingly low amount of people who speak up when visiting the doctor’s office! Some things I really regret not adding in the survey were questions to get to know who the people taking my survey. I added the ‘age’ question after a few surveys were already taken but after seeing other people’s surveys; I would have liked to add a question about the gender, and maybe ethnicity of the people taking the survey.