“The Troublesome Tonsil”.
It was a pro/con paper on whether to have the surgery, or not. I tried to be unbiased, but I came down on the con side, except for unusual circumstances. My conclusion was that tonsillectomies (in 1956 when I wrote it) were prescribed too frequently as a panacea — that your tonsils provided the first line of defense against illnesses and that you were better off with them than without them!
The funny thing is that everyone who was taking Sr. Physiology had to write a research paper about some illness. Also, everybody taking college bound English had to write a research paper with footnotes, etc. Somebody talked our English teacher into allowing us to re-write our Physiology papers and turn them in for English credit. That poor woman was a wreck after reading all of our papers on illnesses. LOL She said she’d never be the same again!
My husband and I run an electronics business, although I know that at least 3 of my classmates from those same classes did become doctors.
One of the reasons that I chose the topic was because of my cousin’s death — the other is that no one else wanted that topic and I had full access to all of the books and periodicals in the library. I had a classmate who used to deliberately find out what I was going to write about and then check out all the books on that topic and keep them out until after the papers were due. May he rest in peace!