Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese is a novel of tremendous pain and healing. The title in itself gives readers the opportunity to ponder the true meaning of the “Medicine”, and to come to the realization that the author is not talking about medicine in solely the physical sense of the word. Wagamese also brings the perspective of a journey into the title through the use of the verb “Walk”. After analysing the true meaning of the title, readers can begin to look at how the medicine is working to counteract the predominant poisons within the novel, alcohol and sorrow. Through the use of storytelling along the journey into the backcountry both Eldon, and his son, Frank, are given the opportunity to finally come to terms with their pasts, and in…
The Demon in the Freezer Book Report The Demon in the Freezer written by Richard Preston is a biological book discusses bioweapon attack of anthrax after 9/11 and the threat to the world. The book also provides the history of eradication of smallpox which is the worst human disease. After the biologists save 70,000,000 lives, some scientists use the remained stockpiles to invent bioweapons, which shocks the eradicators. The American government starts to be highly aware and search the biological terrorist.…
Robert Watcher, in his book The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, describes the many effects, both helpful and harmful, that have distinguished this age of computers in medicine. Watcher uses his influence as the professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and his years of experience in the field of medicine, to look down on the developing world of technological medicine and offer his own opinion. Just from the title one can gather that not all is right with the field at present. His interesting and amusing narrative intends to combine the rapid development of technology, with the age-old science of medicine, and hopefully fix what has…
Diseases may have brought threat to people a few years back. Yet,…
The Black Death was a very painful disease, as if you contracted the plague you would have symptoms such as black buboes (Buboes are painful masses that appear in the groin and armpits) which would have continued for approximately a week. There was always a tiny chance of living if the buboes did burst. What caused the “Black Death?” Stuart doctors said that dogs and cats, pigs, pet rabbits and pigeons could spread the plague.…
A Doctor Who Treats Violence (Ch. 9) Martavia Lambert and Anthony Brown both grown up in the slums, were married for two years with children, and and they had a very abusive and unhealthy relationship. Lambert killed Brown during a fight one night, they were one out of three murders that night. Crime and violence cause a lot of economic problems. Early interventions are expensive, but they become more difficult to deal with later in life.…
“Wait… I was under the impression that all infected areas been quarantined at this point,” Governor Lewis proclaimed. Everyone at the table kept their mouths shut, as they felt an intensity that would soon escalate into power struggle steadily increasing. “Governor!” Hanes said, sternly as he raised his voice back at Lewis while pounding his fist on the conference table. “This sickness has covered two major cities, several states, scores of counties, and a myriad of townships and municipalities throughout the northeastern corridor in less than a week.…
Who am I? This simple question, according to philosophers, is the first of three that the majority of individuals seek the answer to (Beebe 2014). The Medicine Wheel is a dynamic structure that has been used in numerous cultures to help people answer this question. The Medicine Wheel contains four equal components that include Spiritual, Physical, Mental and Emotional. By evaluating my life using these four components, I can reflect on past experiences to recognize how much I have matured as an individual.…
Philadelphia, the largest and most important U.S. city, soon fell apart in the summer of 1793. A deadly disease with absolutely no cure spread through the city like wildfire, killing more than 5,000 people. Conditions were so horrible, that almost everyone who could leave left. The whole government fled the city, including George Washington, the first U.S. president. Only one government official was brave enough to stay behind and help.…
Hello Briaane, I concur with your statement that the medicine wheel can be used as a tool in various ways. The medicine wheel is an important tool to increase self knowledge and self care and when applied to Aboriginal peoples, it enhances the understanding of the needs that are met and those that are lacking (Mussell, 2005). It also is a framework that explains the importance of balance of living beings which is paramount for human development (Wenger-Nabigon, 2010). In my opinion, the medicine wheel is a model health care researchers should utilize for Aboriginal based researches in order to holistically address all the needs of the people. In addition, researchers can use the medicine wheel to monitor and reflect on the progress of health…
All inhabitants of earth suffered a wide spread epidemic known as narcisexualvapitism. A nocuous virus that loomed all over the world like a tarantula hugging a ping pong ball was the cause of the extinction of the human race. It's important to realize that it was not like Ebola, influenza, rotavirus, the myopic TRNTB cult or the four horsemen of the apocalypse while auguring which horse befits which horsemen.…
Elizabeth, I too found the part about contingency interesting, especially considering how the proliferation of these pandemics is so largely dependent on chance. It seems like these intricate chains of contingency must cross at exactly the right moments with the right agents in order to potentially manifest into a pandemic. This also made me wonder about how many potentially devastating plagues we might have unknowingly nearly avoided simply because one step along the chain did not properly occur. To address your question, I think you are right in the fact that it is virtually impossible to find the exact patient zero for a certain, new epidemic today, however, as our detection skills and scientific breadth of knowledge grows — as it has…
First, awareness of the disease will be first priority, spreading the word will help reduce the spread by using the information about the disease. Putting up posters and contacting media teams will. By doing so, the word will spread out and that a large population of people will go see doctors. Without the information if a patient is sick or not based on their body temperature will only add more and more work for the staffers in medical clinics and hospitals. Using the information given we can confirm that if a patient has a body temperature of 40-41 degrees, that patient is sick.…
Another reason why pharmaceutical companies did not start researching the disease earlier on was because the disease was unknown and it would be costly and time-consuming to start researching. Additionally, we knew nothing about the disease; treatments would mainly consist of trial and error. In other words, the two problems in not researching Ebola early on both led to one thing: money. More specifically, the pharmaceutical companies did not think that by researching the disease and trying to find a treatment or cure for it would give them a profit. And as a result, there would be no point in researching if they were not going to make money out of it.…
It’s been 3 years since I graduated high school and decided to join the army; I have been in training for a year. The day after I got out of training, the President decided to give a free vaccine for people to aid in curing their disease and also help to prevent any disease in the future. This project was one of the Presidents campaigns to provide the people with free medical healthcare for all conditions and diseases. Everyone was convinced and decided to have the vaccine, but some people decided not to take it because no one actually knew if it really worked or cured any diseases. A month later people started dying, but no one knew why or what happened.…