Medical Interventions · Unit 1 · Extra credit

The Physician's Treatment Plan

Optional. Done at home, on your own. Graded on reasoning, not on matching anybody else's answer.

Course
Medical Interventions
Assigned
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Due
Your choice, by the exam
Worth
Extra credit
Length
One page
Rule
Every choice names its evidence
Your charge today

You have identified the organism. A physician has to turn that name into a plan a real person can follow, and has to say in advance what would tell them the plan is wrong.

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  • This sheet, completed. Hand it in any time before the exam.

Time: At home, on your own.

Green ruleYou write here. Nothing else on the page is yours to fill in.
Gold groundGiven to you. Do not re-derive it. Controls and reference values live here.
Grey groundInstructions from Mr. Mendoza. Read before you start the step.
Red groundSafety. Read it before you touch any material.
SEC 01Your plan
Why this matters

Every treatment plan a physician writes has the same five parts, and the fifth part, the one that says what would prove the plan wrong, is the part that protects the patient. A plan with no way to be wrong is not a careful plan. It is a confident one.

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Write as the physician on this case. Use your own identification and the treatment table in your packet index. Where you are not sure, say so in the plan. An honest uncertainty is worth more marks than a confident invention.

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1. Diagnosis. The organism, and the evidence that named it. Cite your three BLAST numbers.

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2. Treatment. The drug or approach, and why this one for this organism.

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3. Monitoring. What you will check, and how often, to know it is working.

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4. What would tell you that you were wrong, and what you would do then.

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5. What you would say to the patient, in plain words, in three sentences.