Attending physician

I’ve been asked why I’ve decided to pursue emergency medicine as a specialty too many times to count. Every time, I end up asking some form of the same question: “If you were in a sudden emergency, be it on a playground, in a mall, on a plane, etc., what kind of doctor would you want around you?” Throughout most of my medical school career, I couldn’t decide which specialty I liked the best. I enjoyed internal medicine, surgery, and pediatrics. I loved OB/Gyn. But none of these really called out…

programs last anywhere from three to eight years, depending on what the individual specializes in. This program covers general medicine and specific specialities where residents perform a wide array of extensive duties such as taking patient histories, attending medical conferences, conducting physical examinations on patients, and interpreting information sent from laboratories. These tasks are crucial…

As a registered nurse, I completed my senior practicum for the degree program at a diabetes clinic. I explored why their clients were a no show at booked appointments. Following, meeting with the team I listened to their concerns. My notes included: they thought parking was an issue since there was no street parking and customers would have to pay for hourly parking. One nurse stated we should move the clinic to the airlines since majority of our clients are shift workers and work there. In…

Employment of radiologic technologists is expected to grow 21 percent from 2012 to 2022, which is faster than average for all occupations. While hospitals will remain the main employer of radiologic technologists, quite a few new jobs will open up in physicians' offices as well as in outpatient imaging centers. Employment in these health care settings expected to increase due to the shirt of wanting outpatient care whenever it is possible. O*NET is a free online database that contains…

the patient has competently decided that assisted suicide is desirable, they have decided that death is a lesser evil than their continued existence and so the physician should have no moral objection to euthanasia (Sikkema, 2017). Moreover, there are many other methods of suicide that are arguably more dangerous than controlled physician assisted suicide (Starks, 2013). Finally, in cases where it may not be possible to relieve pain and suffering, an assisted death is seemingly the compassionate…

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Charlotte Borst’s Catching Babies is about the transition from midwife-attended to physician-attended births. Her findings suggest how gender, culture, ethnicity, and professionalism shape birth practices in the United States. In the book, she has case studies, quantitative analysis, and interpretations of professionalism and specialization for historians who seek to combine qualitative and quantitative methods. In the first few chapters, Borst mentions the…

Psychology can also be thrown into the mix by how the physician delivers news to a family on whether their loved one swill survive or not. With this cocktail of information, the doctor is able to form a way to pronounce the information to them. For example, instead of stating that an operation has a “43% chance…

I was born in a small rural community in Nigeria, where individuals and families were socioeconomically and geographically isolated from the nation’s healthcare system. For that reason, I grew up in a truly disenfranchised population that created an early awareness of shortage of healthcare professionals in my vicinity. I witnessed the struggles of my parents in getting access to medical help whenever the need arose. At age 7, I lost my childhood best friend to acute attack of malaria because of…

ailments, but many of my interactions were with patients who weren’t experiencing life-threatening episodes. Understandingly, the latter of these patients use the emergency department because they lack the health insurance to afford a primary care physician or the local community lacks the resources to assist some special demographics: Drug abusers, psychiatric patients, the homeless, geriatrics and undocumented immigrants, etc. As…

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. The surgeons might be the key actor, but this tag team (RN and ST) is the one that…