Call the Doctor

So I am sick. Welcome to the club, right? Well, last night I went in to Urgent Care because I felt awful. I got there around 6:30pm. They told me it would be about an hour or so before I would be seen. Around 7:15 or so (they close at 8 ) a man came in with his little boy lying on his shoulder, the little boy was clearly so sick. (He was probably 2-3 yrs old or so). The guy working at the clinic told the man that they were at full capacity and were no longer taking anymore patients for the…

grown-ups with blinding white coats and fictitious smiles on their faces. Like most young children, I also felt the rising nerves of an imminent flu shot or finger prick, but I was able to drive those feelings aside as I converted myself into the newest doctor in the office that day. The doctor’s office for me was not always a place of penalty, but a place of adventure. I did not fear what was to come, but rather I made…

Pepper was born and there was only one thing that wasn’t quite right, her big toes were crooked and short. Doctors didn’t think anything of it. They fit her with toe with braces and sent her back home. A couples months later, swelling appeared on the back of her head. Nobody knew what was wrong. When her mother noticed that she couldn’t open her mouth as wide as normal, she took her to many doctors to figure out what was wrong. They diagnosed her with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a…

critical between the patient and physician. Now in our society communication requires much more from the physician. doctor 's requests to the patient to follow such and such a treatment. These days correspondence obliges a great deal a greater…

our goodbyes, we mourned, and we pressed on. Now the man who filled every day of my grandmother’s life was no longer here, and her days were suddenly empty. At first it wasn’t that bad. My grandma still went to the store, got her hair done, went to doctor appointments, and made herself meals. Yet, over the last few years, her health has drastically declined, and she seems to have become a totally different person. We have been getting her groceries for her every weekend for over two years. She…

It was a cold winter day. We were running out of wood in the basement and I was always the one who helped my dad put more into the basement. I was in the third grade and loved helping my dad outside with his chores that he had to do. My dad told me that he was going out to put some wood in the basement and I began bundling up in my warm winter clothes. I put on my snow pants, coat, boots, hat, and work gloves before heading outside to help. My dad was pulling out of the garage on the four…

was in the seventh grade. While many of my other teammates were running with ease, I was enduring severe sharp pains in my hip. I went on with this pain for a long time before I finally convinced my mom to take me to the doctor. When we got an appointment with our family doctor, he informed me that all the pain that I was experiencing was because my hip was out of place. Once we learned this, it seemed that I was going to the…

This is one of the worst things in America, that has changed everything for kids to adults, it new technology. Not saying the technology such as curing cancer, the technology that is destroying people’s life. Social media, with Facebook, twitter and many more. It is taking up most of the time that anybody has, because their faces are glued to the phone. People are going to start missing the things in the world that are important, because their noses are in their phones. It has became to much,…

and sometimes, unfortunately, their litigants. The seven or so months it took for Brill to conduct his research using bills from hospitals, doctors, drug…

uncertain of a patient’s medical literacy you can evaluate how they fill out a new patient questionnaire. Nurses and doctors can also determine a patient’s medical literacy by a proper assessment. Oftentimes medication mistakes can occur when a nurse or doctor is fatigued or overly stressed. Nurses and doctors are encouraged to ask for assistance when taking care of patients. If a nurse or doctor needs clarification on a medication or procedure they are recommended to ask questions to clear up…