Persuasive Communication Monologues

“Hey there” John looked over his shoulder at the smiling face of his new coworker. John greeted him as hallway smiled back not wanting to talk since he had woken up at 5:00am that morning. He quickly dashed over to his office and switched on his computer. He thought about the nine years of intensive study that he had to go through. The loud ringing of his pager interrupted his thoughts. He answered a few nurses difficult questions about what medicines to prescribe what to do with a few difficult patients. He placed his phone down a little nervous wondering if he had just killed someone by prescribing the wrong medicine. He grabbed his clipboard, jacket and stethoscope and went to go meet his first patient. “Mrs. Anderson, how are

“Miss, may I speak to you for a moment in private,” the handsome thirty one year old doctor asked. He was the same oncologist from five months ago, and I could tell by the expression on his face this was not good news. I stared at him, opening my mouth slowly but nothing came out. My head nodded. This was it.

The masked doctor looked over to him. “You want me to mute your audio functions?” Gerald shook his head – as much as he could with tools digging into his brain. As unpleasant as the sounds were, he hated the idea of being unable to hear what was happening. It wasn’t just his brain that was cybernetic. His ears and eyes, his arms and legs – they were all machines. Perhaps he was a machine. He wasn’t sure, and he despised how he was beginning not to

“Your answer to my question was remarkably exquisite, it showed me you 're passionate about what you do.” He handed me the lab coat, “So, I would like to be the first to welcome you to Amelia South Hospital’s surgical team. I paged one of the best residents we have to show you around, he’s a pediatric surgeon.” Just then a charmingly pale man walked in, his hair blonde with wavy locks flowing in one fluent motion framing his gorgeous bone structure.

There were people everywhere, instead of computers there were holograms, it seemed you were teleported to where you needed to go ridding of the need to rush or run. I found holographic papers and screens pushed towards me needing my signature or approval as soon as I walked in. I felt myself being pulled left and right, steering me towards a different room, a laboratory. I walked in and saw interns, technicians, and other workers waiting for me in the lab. I tried to calm my nerves and asked,” Where did we leave off?” “You were just about to finish the robotic limb device.” They must have seen the confused expression on my face because they started to explain. “It’s a device you’re creating that relates to an x-ray scanner that when put over a prosthetic limb or missing limb, the device creates a robotic version of whatever’s missing in its place without anyone noticing whether it’s real or robotic.” I nodded my head in response and before I could acknowledge what was happening my hands were moving by themselves, finishing to create the device, picking up tools and attaching wires. It seemed like minutes before the device was already finished. We brought in a veteran, who was injured in combat making him lose his arms. When the device scanned his missing arms, it created a telegraphic image moving from his shoulders to midair, seconds later the veteran had arms. The once tense room was now joyful because the

I was nine years old and in the backseat of my father’s car when music died. He was flipping through radio stations, aimlessly, when his phone rang. He answered the call and, in doing so, left my perception of music defenseless to the arsenal of crap it was about to be exposed to. The radio was left on some station hosted by a man who, by the sound of his voice, one could only imagine perpetually wore backwards hats. His name was probably Steve-o. At first, I sat transfixed by the odd nature of this station. It seemed that every sentence was punctuated by a crude sound bite of a blow-horn or cash register. After about a minute or so of these antics, I lost interest with Steve-o and wanted nothing more than to return to the mundane channel surfing my father had started. I waited anxiously for him to finish his call and, while doing so, listened as music died a slow, painful, bass heavy death.

Agreeing with Floridi (2017), robots and AI solutions are joining nurses, doctors, social workers, technicians, and specialists such as radiologists. These systems are cataloguing images, suggesting a diagnosis, monitoring and even moving patients, interpreting radiographies, controlling insulin pumps, extracting new medical information from huge data sets. Understanding of these radically and quickly changes is crucial for physicians to engage in the transition of AI to their practice.

We walked into the hospital, and sat down in soft chairs, waiting for my name to be called. I really didn’t want to hear my name be called though, I wasn’t ready for surgery. But of course I heard my name be called right then.

Once my operation was over, I looked around in amazement. Most five year old children would cry after being in the emergency room—not I. I simply stood up and smiled, pondering on the limitless possibilities that exist within the medical field. I was envious of those doctors. I wanted

That girl is a real crowd pleaser Small world, all her friends know me Young bull livin' like an old geezer Release the cash, watch it fall slowly Frat girls still tryna get even Haters mad for whatever reason Smoke in the air, binge drinkin' They lose it when the DJ drops the needle Gettin' so cold I'm not blinkin' What in the world was I thinkin'?

Robots are now on the forefront of the nursing profession as well. Robots are being used all over the world in various ways. At Fort Valley Hospital in Scotland Eva a hologram greets patients. I was able to watch a teleconference first hand during my clinical experience between a neonatologist who was in her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and parents of an infant in the NICU in Pomona, New Jersey to discuss the prognosis of the infant. “In Korea, a sniffer bot called KiroM5 patrols the wards detecting soiled incontinence pads and alerting nurses to help immediately” (Whyatt, 2014, p. 67). Nurse Avatars are also making the scene. For instance, Molly created by an avatar-based service called Sense.ly has been assisting with patient check in and can notify off-site staff if a patient data at check in implies that their health risk may have increased. According to Abbott and Shaw (2016), “available as a smart phone app, Molly has a three-dimensional, animated feature and a behavioral repertoire that includes, for example, subtle behaviors such as blinking and nodding” (para 15). Many patient’s and healthcare providers have voiced concern in the lack of emotion robots can provide as well as the fact that they are unable to make moral judgement calls. There

'Mario, you and I are mysterious to each other. We countenance each other from either side of some unbridgeable difference on this issue. Let’s lie very quietly and ponder this.’

"I have honestly one of the most amazing doctors. And I know that he's gonna do so amazing and I'm going to have the best comeback story that anyone has ever heard of."

Without good communication a participant will struggle to get far in learning new skills, improving where they aren’t as good and they will find it difficult to perhaps ask for help and guidance as there wouldn’t be much of a relationship between the coach and the participant. Yet by a coach having good communication with their participant, the participant will end up being more willing to learn and they will feel more comfortable in their sport. Communication consist of admiration in their sport, critical analysis and how to improve in the areas the coach has noticed. To get communication across effectively a coach need to be vocal and use different ways to communicate such as hand signals. An example of a communication is coach-to-quarterback communications systems which is replaced hand signals and player substitutions as methods for coaches to relay play calls to quarterbacks.

I posed the point that what if the power goes out during surgery, or lets say all doctors are replaced with machines, who come running into the ER lobby to save somebody? Who thinks up new surgical procedures? Machines do what they are told… they cant think on the fly