The aspirin synthesis lab was very interesting to participate in. Aspirin is something I am very familiar with and it is one of those commodities we often take for granted, however this lab and the lesson we did learning about this healthcare innovation really opened my eye to the work that is put into creating quality medicine. I didn’t realize how delicate this process was, and that the tiniest of slip ups could result in there being salicylic acid in the aspirin, and that was not what we wanted. In my group we did everything as stated, or we thought we did, but there ended up being purple in the test tube when we tested it. This further proved how precise and exact this process needs to be and if not the repercussions are less than favorable. Drawing out the steps beforehand helped me to envision myself completing this lab and helped me to understand what we were doing and why it needed to be done. We could see the scientific method at work because there was a need observed and then experiment was done to satisfy that need. The results are that aspirin is now safe for consumption and do not pose further danger to the person when synthesized correctly.