Doctor-patient relationship

& Experience I completed my final two shifts on 11/24 and 12/1 at Sharp. The unit had a pretty large census both nights, so we were fairly busy both nights. During this shift I had to notify the doctor twice and felt the most relevant journal topic was advocacy. The first night I had three patients which included a 84 year old man who sustained a hip and right shoulder/humerous fracture from a fall at home and a history of HTN, CKD, MI with coronary stent placement, and diabetes, an 86 year…

As a ten-year- old boy, being woken up at 5:30 in morning was never fun. However, this time was an exception. This time you couldn’t sleep because the excitement. Today was the day you would wear scrubs, talk to patients, and watch your hero in action. You’d end up seeing more procedures and diagnostic tests than some people could ever dream of. When you finally got home, it was 11 at night, you were exhausted, but most importantly you were inspired. At least that’s how I felt after my first…

healthcare setting. Language differences leave room for misunderstanding of instructions for patient care when the language difference is between coworkers. Stereotyping is an issue that can serve as a barrier to effective communication in a healthcare setting. Stereotyping assumes behavior and character which can lead one to believe wrongly and mistreat coworkers based on a bias. This can lead to negative patient care because those who are being stereo-typed can become discontented/dissatisfy…

While there were physicians available for treating patients, many were not purely devoted towards helping humanity. Flaws and sins of physicians contributed to a detrimental body and even soul. While physicians were qualified to help the affected, many physicians obstructed their role as medical saviors and they impacted patients’ balance and harmony of the soul. The maintenance of the…

respect their patient’s wants and wishes. Patients have a freedom and the ability to make choices for themselves. As Dax Cowart stated, “the right to control your own body is a right you’re born with, not something that you have to ask anyone else for” (16). However, healthcare providers duty of beneficence and their patient’s right to autonomy can often clash. Healthcare providers might feel that they know what is best for their patient, when the patient in fact is miserable or feels…

–years –old female was admitted to the cardiac ICU (intensive care unit) in Chicago’s Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Doctor K. is an internist and close family friend of Marguerite M. Doctor K. ordered an angiogram to establish the status of Marguerite infarction. An angiogram and treatment needed to be done within first six hours after infarction to be effective. Doctor K knows that. In the case of Marguerite procedure should be done as soon as the surgical team is going to prepare…

Respect for patient autonomy is one of the principal pillars taught to medical students, a practicing physician’s greatest responsibilities, and is one of the most debated issues in medical ethics. Patient autonomy, in the medical practice, is the legal right of the patient to make final decisions about one’s medical care. In the health care system, however, too many times we see health care providers making decisions for their patients, oftentimes against their will. These providers will argue…

morally (i.e., allegorically) (53). The opening pages of Washington Square present a physician, a man of the medical profession, whose trade is to keep people alive; he is a practical man, touched by the light of science, a learned man, a scholarly doctor, a rational man. Then, Chapter 1 closes with something “that signals the reader to begin looking for a moral” (Quilligan 52). The little girl that remained with him after the death of his wife and son “was not what he had desired” (5). When he…

The image this text seems to portray is the relationship, both medicine and technology have interacted with one another for the sake of creating a better healing system for the human body. The knowledge that’s gained through the physical practice on cadavers allows them to make their embodied skills…

Summer Reading Assignment,” I raised my eyebrows at a title, How Doctors Think. The title triggered me to think back on my senior year internship with a neurosurgeon, Dr. Daniel Lee. I shadowed him every Friday at his office and even in the operation room. Surely, each visit delighted me significantly, for such clinical and operational experiences were exceptionally limited to high school student. At the moment, I strived to learn how a doctor reads MRIs and identifies an accurate diagnosis and…