quickly. I was very thirsty, so I tried to stretch my arm out to get a cup of water, but nothing--nothing--moved. I started to panic, wondering what happened that night, but I didn’t get any answers until I figured them out myself. Ultimately, the doctor arrived at my room, but she had a numb look on her face, and I knew there was something wrong. “ I am deeply--truly--sorry, but when you crashed both of your parents got extremely hurt. When we got to the crash, your mom was already dead, and…
The book that I chose to read is called “The Awakening” By Kate Chopin. In this book one of the main characters was Edna Pontellier. Edna is married to Leonce Pontellier, together they have two sons. Mr. Pontellier, who works in the city of New Orleans is often away at work. In the beginning of the book the family is away on vacation in Grand isle. While in Grand Isle Mrs. Pontellier meets a young man named Robert Lebrun. As the book goes on you see the two spending a lot of time together at…
choose this course of action, is what is required of the doctor during and after this appointment. In Canada, AIDS is a “reportable illness,” (“Criminal Law and HIV,” 2014, p. 4) meaning that once someone tests positive for AIDS, it is the responsibility of medical personnel involved to report this to “public health authorities.” (p. 4) In this case, the woman provided the doctor with the list of her previous sexual partners; therefore, the doctor is required by law to report the names provided…
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…
I need a doctor. 3 minutes. I turned the power…
decisions for themselves the doctor will know who to ask for medical decisions. The medical will lets you know if they want to have everything done possible to keep them alive or to just let them go. These are critical decisions that are extremely important to know about someone that way the doctor fulfills their wishes and does not go against them. Such as if a person starts to slowly not breathe anymore and a doctor tries to bring them back when they were a D.N.R, the doctor can get into…
“You dang near killed yourself and that little boy.” I stared at her in complete shock. Who was the little boy? Did I kill him? What happened? What did I do? I had no clue what happened. “If only you could feel the disgust in my heart for you” she continued. “Mom, you're being really inconsiderate right now!” Susie yelled at her. “Inconsiderate! Inconsiderate! How dare you say such thing while there is a person who almost killed several people! But I'm incon-” “Mom!” I stared at her in…
According to Health Professional Council Authority (2015) conduct pathway “allows the council to manage notifications (complaints) that may constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct”. Furthermore, according to Staunton and Chiarella (2013) “unsatisfactory professional conduct includes conduct that is substantially below the standard reasonably expected of a registered health care practitioner of an equivalent level of training or experience”. Based on the case…
During 1951, a what seemed to be a normal housewife and mother, Eve White, had been experiencing unusual spells. Her husband Mr. White takes his wife to have an appointment with Doctor Luther for incidents of having blackouts, amnesia, and severe headaches. At some point in one of the first blackouts Eve White experiences she buys expense clothes and tries to hurt her own daughter, not remembering either occurrence. Her husband also recalls that she went to Atlanta for some days visiting family…
done in which the doctors found what appeared to be a mass in her abdominal area. When she went back for further observation, she learned of the severity of her child’s condition. Lyric was diagnosed with ABS (Amniotic Band Syndrome). It’s a condition in which an organ(s) grow outside the body. It can usually be corrected with surgery; however, Lyric’s case was a bit more severe. She had almost all of her organs growing on the outside including her heart and intestines. The doctor at that point…