A career as a doctor is demanding, challenging and entails a lifelong commitment to learn and progress. I have not reached the decision to study medicine through a single inspirational moment in my life. It has been fuelled by a lifelong curiosity in biology and...
Medicine is a profession of fine lines. A physician must understand the lines that divide diagnosis and patient, telling and connecting, curing and treating. It is a challenging position, as these lines cannot be taught in textbooks; one has to be intelligent, dedicated, and empathetic....
Medicine as a career, presents an intriguing sense of accomplishment in a day’s work. It is this amazing sense of gratification which you get when treating someone through a difficult illness that inspired me into becoming a physician myself. I still vividly remember the happy...
I’m not a pioneer in my family when it comes to the medical field. My Grandfather is an established physician in Puerto Rico with experience in a district hospital. I have never seen someone so unyielding in their mission to make the world a better...
Beneficence and Non-maleficence are two interrelated concepts which consist of bringing no harm to others. Although the two are interrelated, there is a big difference between the two. Beneficence refers to the act of helping others whereas non-maleficence refers to not doing any harm. Therefore,...
Christopher was a great student and a star athlete. One day, he got in a car wreck, which left him with minor back pain that remained after the car crash. Because of this back pain, he was prescribed opioids to help with the pain. Christopher...
Maria Montessori (1870– 1952) Montessori was by any measure a phenomenal person. She at first opposed going into showing one of only a handful couple of callings accessible to ladies in the late nineteenth century and rather ended up plainly one of the primary ladies...
When it comes to the word alignment, the first thing that comes to mind is automobile- my car. Without it being aligned, steering the car becomes difficult and tires tend to deteriorate unevenly and untimely. Anything not in its proper place or position tends to...
In recent years, physician-assisted suicide has become the focus of great moral, political, and constitutional controversy in the United States. Physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which involves a doctor knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge on how to commit suicide, including; counseling about lethal...
Phelps possesses several inpatient services that include medicine, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics, pediatrics, and physical therapy and rehabilitation. This paper gives insight into the different financial issues that the healthcare system is currently facing, along with proposing solutions to help resolve these financial problems. Physicians both...
This PDQ (physician data query) cancer information summary for health professionals provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer prevention. National Cancer Institute (USA.gov) Oral cavity cancer and oropharyngeal cancer are two distinct diseases, although they have some risk factors in common....
Integration has become the new buzzword in the medical community today, owing to the emphasis on initiatives like population management and disease management that work towards improving the health of communities at large. The success of such programs depends mainly on the synchronous functioning of...
After my MBBS graduation, I have spent majority of my time working in rural and remote communities of Punjab, India. My real love for rural and remote general practice began in the year 2006, when I got my first government rural physician posting in a...
Situated in the southeastern region of Vietnam, the image of hundreds of necessitous and poverty-stricken locals left my 13-year-old self in distress. Dressed in a filthy rag, a mother desperately begged people for money – carrying her sick daughter on one hand and a dirty...
In recent news, the talk of health care has become a big topic. One of the issues in the limelight is physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide is the physician prescribing a pill that the patient takes to induce death. Usually, they are anticipated to die within...
Background Physiotherapists receive long-term and detailed training to develop their skills on treatment methods of cervical musculoskeletal impairments. The most important reasons for the long training period are the presence of vital organs in the region and the widespread use of manual therapy (MT) techniques...
In the business world especially the Medicare system, there are many rules and regulations that the sector must go through in order to succeed. There must be someone to fight against the rules that seem to inhibit the prosperity of private healthcare sectors. Some of...
I spent the entire month of August in the hospital at my grandmother’s bedside. Her fingers felt limp, and they offered no resistance when I squeezed them. At times when I felt some slight pressure, almost indiscernible, I would watch her face. She opened her...
Introduction It is broadly recognized that the hardest step of becoming a practicing physician is the residency. While working their way through the residency, resident doctors must learn to adapt to a drastically different lifestyle from the one they know – an experience which puts...
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” The common answer is typically a teacher, firefighter, or astronaut. For me, born into a family that has owned and operated a small horticulture business since 1926, I envisioned myself as a local business manager....
I cannot remember the day I began to take interest in the medical field. I do not have a story about dealing with a childhood illness or an experience in an emergency room. All I remember is wanting to play doctor while my friends played...
The moment I entered college, I became a part of several medical organizations that gave me the opportunity to volunteer and interact with individuals heading toward the same field. As my interest in the medical field began to grow, I applied to a summer program...
Change is inevitable and society is changing all the time. It happens every day and it will continue to happen forever. The only thing that we can do is try to change along with it. Over the next twenty-five years, technology is predicted to contribute...
I was ten years old and about to show my parents everything I had learned the last few days at ski camp when everything went black. I remember coming to and thinking to myself, “Did I just faint?” As my eyes slowly opened, the frantic...
Moving at an early age to San Diego from Mexico was an arduous and lonesome transition. However, moving and remaining close to my extended family made the trauma of adjustment and stress of adaptation more tolerable. One afternoon, at a family reunion, my cousin Oscar...
The day in question started out as a typical hot summer’s day in a loud and sweat smelling school gym. There was ten seconds left on the clock and the game was tied. As a short thirteen-year-old boy was speeding down the basketball court while...
Career Research Essay Understanding how to maintain healthy skin and learning about different skin diseases has always been a passion of mine. For many years, I have been intrigued by the field of dermatology and have often envisioned myself having a career in this industry....
My desire to become a Physician Assistant can be traced back to a childhood experience I had with my mother. At the age of 12, my mother experienced excruciating pain from a fibroid in her womb. On admission to the hospital, she was treated by...
The Physician Assistant (PA) profession communicates knowledge inside and outside of their community specifically by using signs, symbols, and semiotic rules to achieve a mutual understanding with the particular person or group of people. Some duties of PAs are to examine patients, order diagnostic tests,...
One particular memory that has shaped my foundational passion for medicine is a particular habit my grandparents had. Growing up, my grandfather stored home-grown pumpkins under our beds and my grandmother collected hundreds of water-filled Gatorade bottles throughout our home. As I matured, I realized...
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