Essays on Illnesses

Ariel Dorfman's play “Death and the Maiden” revolves around a husband and wife, Gerardo and Paulina, living under an unstable democracy after a long chapter of oppressive dictatorship. In this moral thriller, Paulina accuses a man named Roberto of being the physician who tortured and...

Chekhov’s post-Sakhalin stories express the author’s view of death as a prismatic focal point for the human condition. Through dialogue, narratorial comment, and subtextual connections, Chekhov’s stories examine death from so many angles that it becomes impossible to give the theme a singular meaning. Rather,...

Diabetes mellitus is a disease of metabolic dysregulation, most notably abnormal glucose metabolism, accompanied by characteristic long-term complications. The complications that are specific to diabetes include retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy. Patients with all forms of diabetes of sufficient duration, including type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)...

For many years, it has been standard practice to treat diabetic foot ulcers with a combination of any of the following: appropriate wound dressing; offloading; antibiotics; and improving the blood supply. The best way of offloading the foot is, however, uncertain. In addition, whilst there...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder which is characterized by chronic hyperglycemia (WHO, 2006). This chronic hyperglycemia stems from problems with insulin secretion and insulin action which leads to disturbances in fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism (WHO, 1999; ADA, 2011). Diabetes can be accredited with...

Pain is a symptom of disease or damage that occurs most frequently. Pain serves to remind and protect and facilitate the diagnosis of disease. Pain is a protective mechanism for the body that would arise if there is a damaged body tissues1. It is believed...

What is sickle cell? Sickle cell disease, also called sickle cell anemia or just sickle cell, is a genetic disease where red blood cells can take the shape of a crescent or a sickle, and that change allows them to be more easily destroyed- causing...