Attending physician

RN, BSN: Kelly Grizzle I had the pleasure of interviewing Kelly Grizzle. She works at Habersham County Medical Center in Demorest, GA as a RN, BSN. The biggest reason she chose this profession was to help people. When she was a child, she was born with aortic stenosis. Therefore, she was in and out of hospitals all her life growing up. She ended up having to have two heart surgeries. Kelly remembers her second surgery that she had at the age of 14. It was at Egleston, Children’s Hospital in…

issue is alarming, and my goal is to build the same relationship with patients that I was fortunate enough to have with my own physician. I had the same family physician since I was born until I moved for college. My physician-patient relationship was cultivated on shared decisions and frequent communication throughout my youth and early adulthood. The environment my physician created made me feel secure because of the time and effort he spent to discuss potential health issues and to provide…

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and commissioned into service in June 2001. He completed his internship and residency at DeWitt Army Community Hospital as a Family Practice Physician from 2001 - 2004. During his initial assignment CPT Meyering deployed with the 1st BN, 6th Field Artillery, 3rd BCT, 1st ID as the Battalion Physician deploying to Forward Operating Base Gabe, Baqubah, Iraq. He stabilized and evacuated 20 major trauma and combat wounded Soldiers via air and ground with zero dying of…

Regina Soliz AIS 1203 10/26/2017 Section OR3 Interview with Joe B. Castellano I recently had the opportunity to speak with orthodontist Joe B. Castellano about his career and his pathway to success. He shared many insights about why and how he chose the dental profession, what skills are most useful, the advice he would give to students who are pursuing in the dental field and what goals he has yet to achieve in the near future. We also discussed his education, his plans on the dental…

Case Study Analysis: Meltdown at Koeberg Introduction Dr. Behr has just begun a one-year commitment as Koeberg District Hospital’s interim medical director and several challenges are presenting themselves as he assumes his position. These issues include prolonged renovations which are hindering the hospital’s operations, underexperienced staff, a lackadaisical attitude toward job performance, and a general attitude of discontent among staff members. In order to be successful in his…

Fink’s Five Nights at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a piece of realistic fiction that depicts both the events that took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Hospital, formerly known as Baptist Hospital. In the hospital and its disastrous conditions, staff face difficulty in evacuating patients because of the lack of preparation and infrastructure for such a disaster. Ultimately, the doctors deem some patients unlikely to survive evacuation,…

Healing Children: A surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine (Newman 2017) is an inspiring novel written by a pediatric surgeon, Dr. Kurt Newman. Dr. Newman shares stories about brave children whom he has helped overcome the struggles they have had to face at such young ages. He highlights the importance of pediatric care and how teamwork is the secret recipe for how children will get better. Each story Dr. Newman tells has a different meaning and lesson that he learned…

Television, Audio & Technology – Hurting or Helping Literacy? Summary The article TV, Audio & Technology – Hurting or Helping Literacy by Jim Trelease is article about Dr. Ben Carson, who is a very successful doctor who was one of the finest Brain surgeons in the world. At the age of 33 John Hopkins University named him head of pediatric neurosurgery. This article talks about how Dr. Ben Carson was raised by his mother in a “fatherless inner-city home” (Trelease, n.d.)by a mother who had no more…

and other is guidance co –operated. Szasz and Hollender (1956) correlated the physician- patient relationship in activity –passivity model with the relationship between an infant and a parent and guidance co –operated model correlated with a parent and an adolescent child model. That is in activity- passivity model the physician took decision for the patient, who is completely inactive and in guidance co-operative physician will tell the patient what to do and later the patient will comply or…

Despite its central and generalised importance to our discipline it is a “speciality”, unlike other specialties which deals only with a specific system or organ. It is a way of healthy and joyful life for individuals as well as for that family physician who has picked up the burden of making the community and individual healthy and preventing diseases among them. WHAT IS FAMILY MEDICINE, ITS NEED &…