Bearing

Dr. Vivian Bearing. Dr. Bearing is a university professor who is diagnosed with stage four Ovarian Cancer. The play and film both follow Dr. Bearing’s internal and external struggles as she goes through months of experimental chemotherapy. The film allows the audience a more crucial understanding of not just Dr. Bearing, but of the other characters that shape the story. All through the film, the observer witnesses dramatic devices being used, the illustration of Dr. Vivian Bearing, and…

Bearing Arms After the tragic event of Sandy Hook, the NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, responded with: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (Moore). LaPierre’s statement foresees the future of educational faculty members becoming capable of protecting the well-being of themselves and students with an armed weapon. This weapon will be active when a threat is applied. To explain this threat, one must engage themselves to reflect on the…

well-being regardless of the one’s diagnosis. In the case of Ms. Vivian Bearing, a stage 4 ovarian cancer patient under the care of Dr. Kelekian and his intern medical student Jason Posner, the above statements were awfully violated as she was deprived not only from receiving optimal patient-centered care but her rights of autonomy, consent, privacy and confidentiality was also compromised. For example, Dr. Kelekian used Ms. Bearing as a guinea pig to experiment on even in the presence of other…

Nurses have the privilege of being with a person during what could be one of the most significant and meaningful moments of their lives. In the film Wit, Vivian Bearing learned a great deal about herself and the human experience while she was in her most vulnerable state, battling stage four ovarian cancer. She was urged into accepting a rigorous and debilitating chemotherapy trial by her physician, Harvey Kelekian. The insensitivity and coldness she received from Kelekian and his team of…

Rotor and touchdown bearing models Fig. 1 features the case study of the high-speed rotor. The photo was taken after manufacturing of the electric motor part, when the rotor was carried to the laboratory for an experimental modal analysis. During normal operation, the rotor is supported by AMBs. In the dropdown event, the rotor is in contact with touchdown bearings at both ends of the rotor. Fig. 1. Rotor under investigation. In this work, the finite element model of the rotor employs…

In the film, Wit, Vivian Bearing is a patient with stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer who is being admitted to a research treatment. Ms. Bearing is being treated differently from each healthcare provider that she encounters. The difference in how she is treated is important in the way that it impacts her tremendously. Nearly all of the healthcare providers treat Ms. Bearing as a lab rat while the nurse attempts to nurture, provide comfort and privacy for Ms. Bearing. Thus, explaining how each…

behaviors of medical staff in the play Wit by Margaret Edson (1998) allow us to view different circumstances that take place. In the play, patients are supposed to be the main focus of all care. Susie Monahan, the primary nurse of one patient, Vivian Bearing, who suffers from stage four ovarian cancer, is one of the few health professionals whose caring attributes display the principle that the focus of care should be on the patient. However, if Monahan was part of the collaborating team, she…

Once Nationwide has identified major risk and degree of exposure to this risk, various strategies are employed to deal with these risks. One of these strategies is comparative advantage in risk bearing. This is a strategy that suggests that a company should make decision on which risk to take and which risk to avoid, based on the comparative advantages of the organization. The organization must also assess the tradeoff between risks and returns. The amount of returns associated with a certain…

portrayed all of these aspects of nursing beautifully. She applied Watson’s theory by valuing Dr. Bearing as a person and respecting her. Susie cared for Dr. Bearing with dignity and focused on making Dr. Bearing’s environment a healing environment. Throughout the film, Susie seemed to be the only person that was always there for Dr. Bearing and seemed to be the only person that saw Dr. Bearing as a person, and not just research. Caring for patients and seeing them as the people they are can…

Two different women experience imprisonment in more ways than one. In W;t, Margaret Edson has simulated the journey of Vivian Bearing, a Ph.D. professor of Seventeenth-Century Poetry. Vivian is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer and is undergoing intensive treatment. Her participation in experimental chemotherapy prompts her to reevaluate her life as it is. As a result of this, her history of being an unemotional professor begins to fade. Similarly, in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte…