Essays About Physician

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Physician Assisted Suicide: Making Doctors Become Killers 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....

Your Body, Your Choice Brittany Maynard killed herself when she was 29 years old. On November 1, 2014, she took lethal medication, prescribed to her by her doctors, in Oregon in her home surrounded by her family (Ertlet 1). “I want to live,” she said....

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...

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,...

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....

For years, doctors have been prohibited due to the law from helping patients to take their own lives. A terminally ill patient should have the right to decide if they have had enough. By legalizing euthanasia, also referred to as physician assisted suicide, tremendous misery...

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...

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...