Celebrity Status with a Disease Special Assignment

Objective

1. First, select a celebrity from the following list.
Each of these individuals has or had a life altering medical condition.

Annette Funicello

Pamela Anderson

Andy Warhol

Naomi Judd

Bob Marley

Melissa Etheridge

Sharon Osbourne

Peter Jennings

Walt Disney

Tug McGraw

Albert Einstein

Lance Armstrong

Magic Johnson

Sally Field

Teri Garr

Montel Williams

Former President Ronald Reagan

Muhammed Ali

Michael J. Fox

Mary Tyler Moore

Kate Jackson

Christopher Reeve

Former Attorney General Janet Reno

David Bowie

Steve Jobs

2. Second, submit a LIST of 50 medical terms and their official definitions you would like to use related to this condition and cite your sources.

3. Thirdly, then tell their story using the actual medical terms you have chosen.
Be sure to bold face or highlight your chosen medical terms in your paragraphs.
Imagine you are a medical professional speaking to other medical professionals who understand medical terms well.
This is different from the exams where you put things into simple terms. Here you will use the actual medical terminology in your passage.

This is your chance to sound medically professional with your term usage 🙂

The story must be at least 500 words in length.

Include the following points in your story.

Focus more on the disease or condition rather than the celebrity overall.
a. Explain the disease or condition and how it has impacted this person’s quality of life froma health perspective..

b. Explain the signs and symptoms and body systems affected by this condition in a typical patient.

c. Explain possible causes of the condition in general.
d. Discuss a few medications or treatments for this condition in general.

e. Discuss the possible prognosis.

3. Be sure to cite all your references for research and definitions.
5 reference sources total are required. (Feel free to explore any mix of these sources: websites, dictionaries, texts, magazines, books, newspaper or magazines etc)

4. Submit your assignment in one of the following ways:
i. Preferred method:
Microsoft WORD doc through the assignment tool for grading. (File types accepted .doc, .docx, or .rtf)
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