Abscess

A father’s job is to care for his children, to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way as is made clear in two Jess Walter’s stories, “Please” and “We Live in Water” from a book of the same name We Live in Water. In “Please” the son in the story lives with his mom, Carla, and her druggie boyfriend, Jeff in an environment where drugs come first. Tommy, the absentee father, has little control regarding the safety of his child. In “We Live in Water”, it is…

Introduction Necrotizing Fasciitis is known as a “flesh-eating” bacterium that can destroy skin, fat, and the tissue covering a person’s muscles. Studies have shown that there are many different factors that come into play for contracting this disease and multiple risks that can put someone at a higher chance for getting it. In addition, there are various treatment options depending on the severity of the condition and different outcomes. This infection, although rare, can be extremely helpful…

Final Journal Assignment During the shadowing internship, there were plenty of opportunities to witness interesting cases that helped me to understand the field of dermatology. The first case I saw while shadowing was of a patient who presented with Proximal subungual onychomycosis under her toenails. Patient 1 Patient History/Present Illness: This patient, a middle aged women, presented with persistent, fungus under her toes. She…

on our rehab ward recuperating from orthopedic surgery. The patient was sweet, quiet and very obedient. During rounds, the nurse expressed concern over how the boy’s father was non compliant to her directives on performing wound care for the boy’s abscess in preparation of him being discharged. She was very worried for the…

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain and the central nervous system. Many users are unaware of the psychological effects that cocaine has on the brain. The user is mainly worried about using the drug and getting “high” and not the effects that the drug has on their body and brain. Cocaine is a psychoactive drug affecting the central nervous system. Cocaine eats away chunks of the brain and increases blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature, often…

Camus’ The Stranger is set in colonial Algeria in the 1940’s. At the time Algeria is under French rule. The country’s inhabitants are French Indigenous Algerians, Arabs, and the Pieds-Noirs. The Pied-Noir like the protagonist, Meursault, is a Frenchman born and raised in Algeria. Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation is set in post colonial Algeria. The setting of the two books is pivotal in understanding the underlying theme of racism and sexism towards the Arabs. During colonial Algeria the…

The surgical area is warm and inflamed. She has an elevated temperature and swollen lymph nodes. She also has an elevated concentration of lymphocytes, as well as subperiosteal abscess in the surgical site. Osteomyelitis is bacterial infection of the bone. In Susan’s case, it is exogenous osteomyelitis, where bacteria invade from outside the body, from a surgical procedure. Symptoms of osteomyelitis include fever, enflamed lymph…

Neurosurgery There are eight main parts of the brain. There are traces of ten different elements from the Periodic Table of Elements in the brain. Neurosurgery has dated back to around 10,000 BCE. The person who created modern neurosurgery was Harvey Cushing. Other famous neurosurgeons are Walter Dandy, A. Earl Walker, Donlin M. Long, Henry Brem, and Ben Carson. There are different specialties a neurosurgeon can choose to do. There are a lot of diseases that need neurosurgeons to treat them.…

and drainage of any remaining fluid in the inner ear (McCance & Huether, 2014). Priorities of care The priorities of care include management of symptoms and prevention of complications due to otitis media such as cholesteatoma, mastoiditis, brain abscess, meningitis, and speech delay due to hearing loss during the effusion. Treatment with antibiotics when appropriate and then surgical intervention with tympanostomy when ear infections become recurrent to prevent further adverse effects from…

From 1934 to 1945 Adolf Hitler was the Führer of Germany and leader of the Nazi party. Signing the Treaty of Versailles therefore ended the state of war between the allied powers and Germany imposing extreme sanctions and reparations onto the country as well as the exception of the war guilt clause. Fundamentally, Germany underwent mass economic hardship and unemployment leading to the economic depression. The Nazi party were favoured by German citizens as they conveyed a sense of decisive…