Doctor of Medicine

shows us how greed and materialism is working with the doctor, the pearl buyers, and the priest. The doctor is a character in The Pearl who is very different than other doctors. Most people think of doctors being nice, caring, and trustworthy. The doctor in this story is very cruel, racist, and greedy for money. He only helps people of his race and people with a lot of money. When Kino first sees the doctor without the pearl, the doctor sends his servant out to Kino and tells Kino that…

there is no medical documents saying you cannot come back.” So I set up an emergency check up with the family doctor, and got in the next afternoon. When I arrived in the waiting room I was called back to see my doctor almost immediately. This time no nurse came in to take vitals or ask questions as I had been in there several times about my injuries over the last month or so. When my doctor walked…

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…

directly on his right knee on the concrete road. The nurses asked Daniel for phone number to call his mother to let her know where he was. As the doctor entered the room, he proceeded to view the area and stated that a specialist will have to do surgery on the knee because the patella and ligaments had been fractured and torn. The doctor gave him medicine to make him unconscious during surgery. The patella bone is known as the knee cap. This bone helps us walk and keep our…

she had never had any babies to compare her baby to, but this gave Val something to talk to and ask the doctors about. Finally, with the help of her step dad, Val was able to convince the doctors to allow her to visit a specialist in a hospital to have more tests run on Ethan. These tests revealed something was wrong with Ethan’s heart, but the doctor wasn’t sure what he was looking at. The doctor sent out images of Ethan’s heart to cardiologists in 12 different states and finally got the…

This was the moment of my life in which it was full of excitement and anxiousness. It was my last year in middle school and soon I was going to face high school. It was already May and before school ended I had a field trip of my art class to attend. It was one of those field trips that only a few kids were selected to go. From the whole class my teacher only chose 6 students to go. The group of students he selected included me and my best friend Serena. Serena was a very shy and quiet person…

The doctor needing to quickly confirm a diagnosis of diphtheria in order to begin treatment of the child before it 's too late attempts to open the child 's mouth to examine her tonsils. Throughout the story the child refuses to comply, going even so far as to violently resist the doctor 's attempts to diagnose her. In the end taking into account the direness of the situation and the need for prompt treatment combined with his rage at the child 's resistance, the doctor forces a spoon…

were also there for jaw distraction surgery. The next day I had to be at the hospital at 5:30 am to be prepped for surgery. I was very nervous. The nurse put an IV in my arm, it hurt when she did that. When it was time to go into surgery, they put medicine in my IV to make me go to sleep. After I was asleep, the anesthesiologist put an intubation tube in my throat. When I woke up from surgery, I was in the recovery room. I was still very drowsy but I didn’t feel any pain. I remember the smell…

Heartbeat racing, hand getting sweaty and ears turning boiling hot. Out of the blue, I hear “it’s pancreatic cancer”. I sat there anxiously tapping my feet on the hospital floor. I see my mom talking to the doctors with a perturbed face. Shocked and horrified as I am sitting there thinking “there has got to be something I could do to help”. My father was going through one of the top four dangerous cancers in the world. After hearing the news all my father cared about was fighting cancer.…

Imagine this, you are about to become a big brother/sister, and you are anxiously waiting for the doctor to come out and tell you it is time to meet your little brother/sister. You are feeling overwhelmed with excitement and nervousness. Finally, you walk into the hospital room, and you hear your mom and dad crying. You realize you don’t see the baby anywhere around the room. You ask what is wrong, and they tell you that after the baby was born, it died shortly after from a disease that could…