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The interpersonal level of the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM), focuses on friend, family, and norms of the surroundings. Coreil (2010) stated “At the interpersonal level, we identify home, family, and peer group influences” (p. 3.). With that said, to answer the question of what can one do as a friend or a family member to help in the prevention of colorectal cancer? Since early screening can prevent colorectal cancer, it is important to encourage that friend or family to have a colonoscopy done…

the next 6 months at most. Imagine getting terminally ill and having to sit through the pain on a bed strapped to matcheans. That would be the horrible. Ethan Remmel was a dad that was only 41 years old that died on June 13 2011 that had terminal colon cancer that spread to his bones. Ethan Remmel wanted to die so his two sons and his wife wouldn’t see him in pain anymore. People should have the right to die with dignity and in a humane way.…

Cancer shows repetition in the metastasizing of the cell life cycle throughout the body. Comparing cancer cells to healthy cells shows antisymmetry. The prognosis of each patient is never identical to another cancer patient. Different treatments are used and this shows both repeating and antisymmetry. So, where does the cancer came from? Cancer can develop through genetics or environmental factors which is key when looking into how the disease is formed. The development of cancer is not just…

I cry again but this time out of relief. A huge weight is lifted off my shoulders. We got to visit him for an hour before my brother and I went home for the night. Seeing my father again after knowing that if he did not go to the hospital his colon rupture could have been life threatening made me realize that I sometimes take my parents for granted. Even though my father is okay now, he might have not been in a short amount of time. I also realized that in life you don’t always know when…

The sonnet, Whoso List to Hunt, by Sir Thomas Wyatt, describes the act of chasing after unrequited love. This poem illustrates this chase through the narrator’s experience of chasing after a female deer. Specifically, the poet describes the narrator’s perspective in the first line “Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind.” This line creates the image of a man asking which people in the audience enjoys the chase for love. In addition to this question, the man reveals information to the select…

Police officers have more powers than the average citizen; they have the power to arrest, seize property, and use deadly force. Many officers have abused these powers, and when they do, you would think they would be fired and prosecuted, right? Wrong. In most of these cases, officers have only been suspended or given probation, this seems like a minor punishment for such an unjustifiable crime. Police officers have gotten above the law and are now able to abuse their powers as they wish. When…

While being in the field of healthcare, we learn about numerous amounts of things that can help us overall. Health informatics is a tool that we can use that helps the overall healthcare delivery and provides support for many workers. We use data we collect from the health care systems to improve services, increase patient satisfaction and produce a higher workflow. “As defined by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, health informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the design, development,…

The type of facility I chose to write about is the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was founded using money from an inheritance by philanthropist Johns Hopkins. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are the founding institutions of modern American medicine and the birthplace of numerous traditions including…

780,000 Americans (CCFA, 2014). Crohn’s Disease is progressive, chronic, and painful, and it can be located at any point within the gastrointestinal tract, though most frequently within the last part of the small intestine - the ileum -, and/or the colon (Abraham & Cho, 2009). The first documentation of Chron’s Disease was by an Italian physician, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, who noted that a patient was suffering from a chronic, debilitating ailment involving abdominal pain, fever, and bloody…

Colorectal Cancer Prevention State of Illinois, Health Department Colorectal Cancer Coalition Winter 2016 ______________________________________________________________________ Overview Colorectal cancer is cancer that originates in either the colon (large intestine) or the rectum (anus). In determining the value of preventing colorectal cancer (CRC) it is important to remember that CRC is the “second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the third most common…