Attending physician

with such compassion and skill on a daily basis. These physicians have informed me on so many great things about Meharry and how Meharry led them to their current success as physicians. Dr. Cates described the phenomenal faculty, which included Dr. Henry Moses. Every time I see Dr. Cates or Dr. Conatser interact with a patient, it inspires me to attend Meharry. Their bedside manner reflects the way your school shaped and molded them as physicians. This is how I envision the outcome of my medical…

outreaching to the medical path. I’ve attended medical seminars, shadowed, volunteered, researched and challenged myself to understand people better in ways like attending cultural events that could potentially help me in the future to become a competent healthcare provider. Through endless researching, I stumbled upon a career known as a physician assistant at the beginning of my junior year. From then on, I’ve developed a devotion to the profession through extensive shadowing and intensive…

most versatile occupations within the health care workforce. The Americans are growing older, living longer, and gaining health insurance coverage in increasing numbers, but the supply of physicians is not meeting the demand for services. Today, nurse practitioners (NPs), together with physicians and physician assistants, provide most of the primary care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will place many demands on health professionals and offer them many opportunities…

prescribing decisions. “But the guidelines do not forbid all interactions with health care professionals. Drug representatives are permitted to provide physicians with "modest meals," but only if they are accompanied by an "informational presentation." (ProQuest, 10) It is apparent that the goal of pharmaceutical companies strictly needs to be to keep physicians informed on up to date medications available to them. In conclusion, not all doctors can be bribed, some doctors have decided to…

terminology and transitioned from my 4-hour volunteer shifts to 10 hour rigorous working shifts. With time, I understood there is so much more to being a physician than just seeing new faces and deciphering diagnoses. I recall many experiences with Dr. Khalid, a resident physician. After each patient exam, he would tell me tips to make a greater physician. For instance, one of his patients was dissatisfied with the quality of care she received in another hospital and Dr. Khalid keenly listened…

judged not only on their scholastic achievement and abilities, but also on their intellectual, physical, emotional and behavioral capacities to meet the essential requirements of the school’s curriculum.” Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s physicians who will have the lives of many people one their hands, so when talking about the success of medical students, it is really about the successful improvements of the society’s health. As a result a candidate applying to University of Maryland…

As a medical professional, it is not enough to not do harm, one must also do additional work to provide benefits to the patient (Coale, 2015). According to Henrietta’s attending physician Howard Jones, “Henrietta got the same care any white patient would have; the biopsy, radium treatment and radiation were all standard” (Skloot, 2010). Despite proper beneficial treatment, Henrietta’s death is linked with having a more aggressive adenocarcinoma, diagnosed years after her death, as well as being…

Throughout my life, learning more about the medical field has consistently secured my decision to pursue this path. Initially, my mother sparked my interests. After immigrating to the United States and passing her Nurse-Licensing Exam, she has worked as a Registered Nurse for over 20 years, exposing me to the medical field at an early age. She would often tell me, “The most important aspect of my job is helping my patients by advocating for their individual needs.” The compassion she displays…

Canada two years prior. The google results overwhelmingly stated that I need all A’s and to increase my chances of being accepted to medical school I need to volunteer. I had A’s in my classes so I had completed half of my requirements to becoming a physician but as a 12- year-old and a new…

One thing I noticed was how everyone was key to the process. Attendings were in charge of the overall study and were the ones directing and providing background information, administrative staff helped to with the paperwork, statisticians assisted to design and make sure data collection was appropriate, residents helped…