The onus for this issue is on both the patient and the provider, but the medical professional should understand that not everyone understands medical terminology. Dr. Williams should have asked the patients if there were any questions and if they understood everything as it was being explained to…
HeLa cells are an immortal cell culture line that have been used to help develop the polio vaccine, understand the effects of radiation, cancer, viruses, and helped lead to advances in cloning and gene mapping. These cells came from one terminally ill woman, Henrietta Lack, who didn’t even know they had been taken from her until she was on her death bed. The author, Rebecca Skloot details the origin and use of the HeLa cell line in her book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta lacks”. Henrietta was a black woman with a little more than that of an elementary education. She had never even taken a science class, so when she had to get treatment for her aggressive cancer she was lost, because she couldn’t understand the details of what the doctors…
Even though physician valued the expertise of every surgical technologist, they remain impartial and don’t want to get involve in the hospital’s personnel matters. All they want is an able body that can take orders and hand them what they need before they ask for it. The core team. The very core of the surgical team is the circulator (Perioperative Nurse-RN) and the scrub (Surgical technologist-ST) tandem.…
Brain and spinal care are delicate procedures; choosing the right neurosurgeon can be a difficult and time-consuming task. One has to find exactly the right match for one's needs. Some people don't really need personal care that is tailored to fit emotional needs relating to the surgeries; they can handle what is going on without a lot of extra TLC from their physicians. Others require a more sensitive neurosurgeon who can cater to their particular emotional makeup if they are afraid or in pain. Let's take a look at neurosurgeons, especially in orange county, and what it takes to get your needs met.…
Wall of Silence Journal Two One can assume that the goal of most healthcare organizations is to improve patient outcome; but, how does one know that they are getting the best care. Thanks to the advances of technology, patients have immediate access to hospital ratings through their consumer report. The hospital consumer report addresses problem area such as: patient outcomes, hospital safety scores, adverse events in surgical patients, patient experiences and hospital practices (Consumer Reports, 2017). Technology has advanced as far as providing information on individual physicians to meet public demand about their health care provider. Each state provides information about physicians’ license to practice in that state.…
Faced with cancer in my mid 30’s, I became an instant active health care consumer. I am proud that I never sat back and let the many doctors lead the way with my care. I requested copies of all my tests and researched everything. I went to appointments armed with questions. with the type of cancer I had, I was at high risk for ovarian cancer.…
What are the financial risks of pediatricians who own their practice of offering assistance to less fortunate people in the United States? Pediatricians are doctors for children. Doctors treat all type of general diseases that cause illness to children. They give hope to the parents that will be a way for their children to be treated.…
I agree with you that the doctors are presented partially during the birth process. Looking back, I remember I spent the majority of my labor with a nurse, not with my doctor; however, my doctor helped me throughout the entire delivery process and had a manageable and non-medicated birth to my first child. Also, back then, like you, I was young and was not informed about midwives. If I would have known, probably I would have considered having a midwife, someone who will be there during my labor, however, would prefer to give birth in a hospital as well, since I believe that hospital is cleaner and the doctors are able to find quicker and clever ways to deal any serious complications that might…
Here is a natural remedy for menopause. This will not only get rid of your symptoms, it will transform your life. I have had the most amazing light bulb moment. A transformational experience, I have become enlightened, it is truly astounding. I would like to share it with you, some of you may get something out of it.…
Fernanda Carrion Professor Keosha T. Bond PSYCH 150 May 14, 2015 Question 1 Women usually go through menopause between the ages of 45 to 50 years old, this is the point in a women’s life when the menstrual cycle completely stops, and when women are no longer able to have babies, this is a normal part of the aging process. Hormone therapy is a type of medical treatment that can help ease the natural process of menopause. Hormone therapy uses female hormones that include estrogen and progesterone that treat symptoms of menopause during and after; it has been proven to be very effective. In young healthy woman ovaries produce the hormones estrogen and progesterone that control menstruation and ovulation.…
Introduction The menopause is the period of time a woman 's life, at which her ability to give birth ends. The main natural fact is the end of the menstrual flow and it causes reduced secretion of the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone. Symptoms have been related to menopause are mood changes, sleep disorders, urinary incontinence, cognitive changes, somatic complaints, sexual dysfunction, and reduced quality of life may be secondary to other symptoms or related to other causes. Menopause concerns as one of a disease.…
The Science of Menopause Without getting too technical, starting in your late 30s your body will begin to produce less estrogen and progesterone. Thankfully, rather than dropping all at once, these hormone levels begin to gradually decrease over time, so that by your late 40s or early 50s, you are approaching the point when your hormone levels will no longer stimulate menstruation. However, this can mean many years of seemingly inexplicable changes occurring within your body, as it begins to adjust to its new routine. Menopause does not always occur naturally. A full hysterectomy – that removes both the uterus and your ovaries – will induce menopause.…
The article, “Hands Off Clitoridectomy” by Yael Tamir, discusses the controversial topic of clitoridectomy, and all the arguments within the subject while opening up a new way of perceiving it by comparing it to our own society and practices. She suggest that indeed the practice of clioridectomy is a gruesome and gutwrenching, but there is more to the subject than just the moral issues of it. She address the political and social aspects of performing and living with the procedure and addresses them with passive but firm arguments. Her main point of the article is that our society needs to stop judging and creating prejudices aimed at other cultures or societies when in fact we could be bettering our own society rather than critiquing others.…
Confidentiality is always important in a medical office. Everything you see, hear or read about Need’s to remain confidential and does not leave the office. While working in a medical office you will always need to make sure patients have their privacy. We must make sure we protect our patients. Due to the current HIPPA laws patients Medical information is considered confidential.…
Understanding the foundation and application of medical professionalism is very critical to the development of a healthcare professional’s medical career. As stated by Merriam-Webster, medical professionalism is defined as the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a medical professional. In addition, privilege is an important characteristic related to medical professionalism. Privilege is a right or benefit that is given to some, but not others, and a special opportunity to do something that makes someone proud, which can also be used as an advantage that the wealthy and powerful have over others in a society. Privilege and medicine are often overlooked and undermined by those in practice, but it is important acknowledge as it can be troublesome when professionals forget their role in the field.…