Doctor of Medicine

UCLA Alumni: Story Musgrave Life has its ups and downs, challenges and low points that everyone must overcome. Story Musgrave is a retired NASA astronaut and American physician born on August 19, 1935, in Boston Massachusetts. He was able to defy all odds and proved that any ambition can be reached while achieving goals above and beyond, all while starting his inspiring journey at a undoubtedly young age. Although Musgrave had a broken, alcohol driven, violent family, he made an attempt to…

Ohio and her family assisted escaped slaves. Her dad died a few months later. Elizabeth wanted to be a doctor but all the medical schools she tried to get in would not admit her. So she studied with doctors in the south privately. Geneva Medical School of western New York admitted her in 1847. When Elizabeth got accepted to the school many people ridiculed her for trying to be a female doctor but Elizabeth pushed through and kept studying. She graduated at the top of her class in 1849. Dr.…

that, most of the time, the patient’s health is the doctor’s hands. Doctors need to have some sort of finesse, but they also need vocation. Some doctors are in for the wrong reasons, such as money, prestige, and even fame. A doctor’s only interest should be that of helping others, to be able to; with the help of a team, determine what is wrong and being able to help. Below is the story that changed my life and geared me towards medicine. March 2005 my mother decided to get breast augmentation.…

situation? It is important for a doctor to be completely honest with the patient. After all, a patient puts trust in their doctor. They expect the truth and should receive the truth. It does not matter if the doctor feels uncomfortable or are scared of sharing the truth. If doctors are not sharing the truth or lying, it can affect the patient in many different ways. To summarize what Dr. Steven Pantilat said in his article, “Truth Telling” from USCF School of Medicine, the patient may no longer…

As a young doctor, and doctor in general, there will be times when you develop a strong attachment towards a patient that may affect you mentally or a patient comes in with symptoms that are not recognizable. When I become a doctor, I always worried how I would react under pressure and whether I would become too emotionally attached to my patient; that is why I connected to The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, From the Heart and My Own Country, short stories from the book A Life in Medicine. These…

after being sick for months, my father brought me to the doctor to see what was going wrong with me. After being examined by the doctor, she told me I had strep throat and my neck was swollen because of it. She told me that if the swelling in my neck didn't go down in a few months I was to make another appointment to see her. Months went by and the swelling did not go down. My neck seemed to have a hard lump in it. I went back to the doctor and she ordered that I was to get a sonogram of the…

Emily and Callie then grabbed a blanket and held it up so I couldn't see what was about to go down. The doctor grabbed my foot and stuck the numbing needle right into the wound. He wasn't kidding, that thing hurt like no other. I screamed bloody mercy, the people outside our room probably thought I was dying. You would have thought that they would wait for the numbing medicine to kick in but no. He just started stitching me right up and I could feel the needle protruding into my skin over…

activity in class I realized that yes when you retire at age 65 you get social security but normally is not an income you can depend on. People do not realize that when you are older you are generally paying for a lot more expensive items such as more medicine because of health problems, special clothing, etc. When my group did the social security assignment in class it made me realize it is true that social security is not money given to an elder to live a comfortable…

"Girisha", someone called out! She looked up to discover an impatient receptionist looking towards them. Along with her mother, she followed the nurse into another room wondering what cream this doctor will prescribe her. She has been to the Walk-in Clinic before for the rashes on her arms. Each time, a different doctor recommended a distinct cream to treat eczema, even after she stated she has no history. After months of applying the cream, to her lack of surprise, none of them worked.…

The dreaded evening lull. That is what emergency room physicians detest, to see a steady, and reliable flow of patients, slow, to a trickle. You can hear the audible click of the clock as the waiting room empties, and as the waiting room quiets, the halls swell with a steady orchestra of monitors, alarms, and chit chat. Myself, well, I could be found in no routine location, no designated cubicle, but rather on a WOW, a workplace on wheels. See, I was an emergency department physician scribe, for…