Working 14 hours a day running errands, washing floors and seeing different disciplines of the hospital, as well as talking to employees, from consultants to part-time cleaners, gave me an insight into hospital life. Through volunteering with KEEN I interacted with young people with Autism to which I took an interest after seeing “The Curious Case of a Dog In The Night-time”. My participation in a class as a volunteer for AgeUK showed me how difficult it is to live a normal life with MS and made me appreciate the patients’ strength of character. In my ongoing volunteering in an Alzheimer’s nursing home I find patients’ wishes are often neglected due to their age, and I now understand how important the presence of volunteers is to the residents.
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“The English Surgeon” which highlighted weaknesses of health care systems in Europe, also brought to light entrepreneurial skills of doctors who use second hand drills in their operations. Marsh comments on the annual cost of perforators used in surgeries (£40,000), which are disposed of after one use within our healthcare system. If successful surgeries can be conducted with repeated use of perforators, I believe we should not continue a culture of disposal, if we want a sustainable NHS. I continued to investigate healthcare systems of developing countries in my submission for the “Newnham Essay Prize” in which I looked at factors which influenced the Ebola outbreak. In my opinion the primary factor appears to be the weak health care systems of the countries with a doctor to patients ratio of 1:100,000 in Liberia and a restricted access to hospitals, which result in an inefficient diagnosis and increased mortality. A lecture and subsequent laboratory placement in Oxford working with TB specialists allowed me to see how centrifuge machines worked and to understand that for me patient contact is a vital factor in a
“The English Surgeon” which highlighted weaknesses of health care systems in Europe, also brought to light entrepreneurial skills of doctors who use second hand drills in their operations. Marsh comments on the annual cost of perforators used in surgeries (£40,000), which are disposed of after one use within our healthcare system. If successful surgeries can be conducted with repeated use of perforators, I believe we should not continue a culture of disposal, if we want a sustainable NHS. I continued to investigate healthcare systems of developing countries in my submission for the “Newnham Essay Prize” in which I looked at factors which influenced the Ebola outbreak. In my opinion the primary factor appears to be the weak health care systems of the countries with a doctor to patients ratio of 1:100,000 in Liberia and a restricted access to hospitals, which result in an inefficient diagnosis and increased mortality. A lecture and subsequent laboratory placement in Oxford working with TB specialists allowed me to see how centrifuge machines worked and to understand that for me patient contact is a vital factor in a