Attending physician

lightly. It is not a career I have wanted to do since a particularly young age, but a life changing event prompted my choice. I thought very long and hard before deciding to apply for medical school. The same is true for deciding to apply for the Physician Assistant program. My story began at the age of 10 years, when I woke up at 3:00 am at my mother's scream because my father suddenly became unable to speak and move. We discovered that he developed paralysis in the left part of his body.…

choice. According to the legal standards, a Directive to Physician is active when the patient lacks capacity and the condition is terminal or irreversible. One component of the definition to the terminal or irreversible is that the condition is incurable. In the case, the neurologist mentions “patient has a good chance of recovery with little functional deficit.” Because the patient’s condition is not incurable, the Directive to Physician does not apply. Therefore, it does not support option two…

They call them “Tap-taps,” the brightly painted open back trucks that transport passengers through the dusty streets of Haiti. A traveler taps the side of the vehicle to board, pays, rides and then taps to jump off at a desired destination. For one particular man who sat with his face covered by a towel, that destination was the Diegue clinic in Port-au-Prince. All I knew from intake was that this patient was here for a foot issue. I noticed the adult sitting uncomfortably, a towel wrapping his…

incredible amount of autonomy, often, the trauma physician allow the PA to “run the show.” In addition to having a rigorous training course involving medical terminology and electronic health record (EHR) charting, necessary for working as a scribe, I also benefit learning from the physicians. Long Beach is a teaching hospital and I have the benefit of listening in on presentations when residents and PAs discuss cases with the attending physician. I have definitely matured from the time I began…

ability to think quickly to both assess the patient’s needs and treat those needs. The compassion, mental capacity, and ability to collaborate with other physicians are all essential qualities to treating patients as a physician. I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to shadow such an excellent physician like Dr. Renshaw through the Physician Shadowing Program. The words of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen best sum up my attitude toward medicine after my experience in the field thus far: “Medicine…

out those who performed illegal abortions, it was their job to warn of the dangers of abortion and create new laws which enforce those codes. Yet, if many physicians didn 't perform illegal abortions, they would still be unsafe for women and, as a result, many laws that are in place today would not be there to protect individuals and physicians or appropriately serve justice to those who break those laws described in the chapters. In the early 1900 's women talked…

parents, Mr. Walter Vanaman and Mrs. Nancy Vanaman, and the minor plaintiff, Ms. Barbara Vanaman. On June 1964, while Ms. Barbara Vanaman played in her backyard and fell into a hole, she twisted her ankle. The family was trying to reach their primary physician but they couldn’t get in contact with their doctor. They immediately took the patient to Milford Memorial Hospital. Prior seeing the doctor, the nurse asked the family if they wanted any doctor specific, since they didn’t know anybody at…

Through my dedicated personality, I believe that I can lead others and follow my own path to becoming a physician. College is an extraordinary experience for me to learn and grow as an individual and I plan on taking full advantage of this opportunity. I will participate in a sufficient amount of research to begin integrating myself in the medical field as well as shadow multiple physicians to broaden my knowledge of the various areas available to work in. I believe that I can help the community…

All available documentation submitted for this claim has been reviewed from the perspective of Internal Medicine. The claimant is a female (DOB 08/20/1979) who works as a sales representative who is claiming disability from 04/03/17 through 04/16/17. The physical requirements of her job included carrying optical bags, standing, and walking. Based on the submitted documentation, the main medical issues, in this case, are acute cystitis with hematuria, left-hand numbness, left-sided neck…

My dream has always been to be a physician and as I have gotten older I’ve realized that I do not just want to be any physician but rather a surgeon. As a surgeon you have countless specialties that you can pursue, whether it is: cardiothoracic, general, neuroscience, plastics, pediatric, neonatal, or OBGYN. This semester I am enrolled in PDBIO 220 (Anatomy) and have come to love and appreciate the human body more than ever. During our last weeks of class, we have been discussing the…