Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The purpose of this essay is to write a review. The article in discussion is Dr. Oliver Sacks’ book On the Move. For the most part two outside sources will be considered, to give support and or a difference of opinions. When someone examines Dr. Sacks what do they find, what inspired him to write On the Move? Is it a- worth-while book that is found on bookshelves throughout the world? Let us take a deeper look at these questions and the feelings others have toward the book as well. Many personal…

Parents today use many different types of discipline to help teach their children the difference between right and wrong. The most common type of discipline parent’s use is spanking their child. Spanking is just one of many forms of discipline that has been used by parents, but it is now becoming the most frowned upon by many people. People believe that it is a form of abuse or that it often not only hurts the child physically but mentally. In the majority of families today spanking is used more…

Lefties: The People that are Still There When Things Don’t Go Right “The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.” -Author Unknown Lefties often get a bad rap, and it is time to clear up the misconceptions and make being left-handed a new desirable trait. In the Latin dictionary, the word “left” was often defined as sinister or evil, a matching definition if you were to look into the American education system.…

think. For example: a pound of broccoli can be used in multiple dinners throughout the week and you only are paying around a dollar for that pound. Williams also quotes Keith Thomas Ayoob, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York who says, “The more fruits and vegetables you include in your diet, the lower your risk for all the major chronic health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, many cancers, high blood pressure, the list goes on.”…

nine-year-old brother. I walk downstairs and start making breakfast for my family. After that I would go to school and come straight home to help out my family by cooking, cleaning the house, helping my brother with school, or making sure my mother took her medicine. I repeated this same routine every single day. Since my mother has been sick I’ve taken a more prominent role in helping to raise my brother. On June 27th, 2011, my mother was diagnosed with a spinal tumor. The outlook was bleak…

During an era when women were not known to attend college, let alone, play a major influential role in science, Marie Curie did just that. Born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie is best known for discovering the elements radium and polonium, and her study of radioactivity, which led to advances in the treatment of cancer and the development of nuclear power; both of which are still used today. Her work on radioactivity led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and…

Cambridge. He has written several books throughout the years. Hawking was born into a family who did not have very much money. His Scottish mothers name was Isobel Hawking. She attended Oxford University at a time when it was rare for women to attend college in the 1930’s. His father, Frank Hawking, was also a graduate of Oxford University. He was a medical researcher that specialized in tropical diseases. Together Frank and Isobel had four children, with Stephen being the oldest. He had two…

Emotional and psychological harm, pregnancy, and STD infections can all be a result for teens that are sexually active. Abstinence programs teach teens to stay away from sex with the fear of contracting diseases and putting their health at risk. However, there is not a definite method to keep teenagers away from being sexually active, even with furthering their education. Whereas if teens had access to free, confidential contraceptives, they would have the ability to protect their health at an…

need for his escapist drug has lessened, and it has become a social drink instead of medicine. We no longer prescribe it as a solution to our problems. Alcohol and history can been intertwined since the beginning, but now is the time to make sure the two don’t bleed into one another. If the legal drinking age is reduced to 18 the hope and future of this country, and this entire world, is at risk. There will be no Albert…

anything. However, if a woman is having miscarriages for no reason, doctors could still recommend something, or they could still find something wrong in the body. For example, Dr. Williams, director of the Pearl program, located at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System in New York City state's, “Couples are first evaluated to…