Doctor Who

Breast cancer I remember one morning, getting ready for work I realized I had a small lump on my left breast. I didn’t feel pain but I could see a lump. The whole day at work I thought about it, I told my husband and he thought I should go see the doctor. I was scared because the thought of having breast cancer was repeating in my head and it worried me, especially because my mom had it before. We went and I got a checkup, the test came back positive that i did have breast cancer. I didn’t want…

differing macro/micro contextual issues. These issues include problems with his doctors, with his self-identification, and body ego. Sacks grew up as an athletic individual, his health being a main priority throughout his life. He talks about how he grew up valuing his physical…

Some of the wording in the law may be confusing, for example, the following terms: ‘serious health condition’ and ‘continuing treatment’ when referring to eligibility of an employee for using FMLA, which gives limited credence to those who use that as a reason for inadvertent abuse and/or compliance. Limited because in the twenty plus years since the FMLA passed, numerous ways exist to clarify the information, one in particular is the FAQs provided by the Department of…

have gotten so used to the Minister’s black veil, that they are not even phased anymore. As Mr. Hooper makes his way into the church, he greets, nods, and repeats as he makes his way down the center aisle. Mr. Hooper notices that the gray haired man who usually sits in the aisle is not present. He is a little confused but carries on down to the pulpit. He greets the congregation once more and bring up not seeing the gray haired man in the aisle.” Where has our loyal parishioner gone.” Said the…

looking at them. Today I think I would have. The doctor pulled out a huge pair of vise grips and I suddenly was scared as I knew these two foreign objects were coming out and it was not going to be pretty. He latched onto one pulled until it game out of my wrist and through my skin. The blood poured everywhere and if it was not for the pad it would have been on my clothes too. It hurt so bad and I could not take another one, but I had to. The doctor pulled it out and I was done. He gave me a…

all the books and stories we were responsible for this class, I connected to three wonderful stories for two particular reasons. 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…

every roaming doctor and nurse. Throughout the hospital, this red line is painted through hallways and doors. It represents where these elite surgeons are allowed to go, compared to the average citizen that walks in with a complaint. It separates areas where the hospital goes from being accessible to all, to only enterable by few. When one walks into a hospital there are many aspects to notice. There are families who have been waiting hours hopeful hear good news and other people who are just…

human nature. While saying that, there are always 2 ways to react to an accident that has just happened. There is always a positive and negative outlook on the situation. The decision of how we look at things make us who we are. This is the story of my accident and how it made me who I am today. It was a normal Friday at school. I was going about my day as usual but as an athlete,…

focuses on a woman who was trying to win the heart of a boy who she had adopted. The boy had lost his parents. The mother went to a doctor in the village seeking help with winning the little boys love and affection. The doctor told the women that she would make her a potion that would allow the boy to love her, but the catch was that the recipe required the whisker of a…

Gisselle Pernett After going in for a routine checkup and expecting to have normal results, America Hernandez was being rushed to a hospital for a condition her doctors knew nothing about. It wasn’t until she was hospitalized that she was diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare condition that causes the immune system to mistakenly attack the platelets in her body. This condition prevents the blood in her body from clotting, and when this happens even the smallest cut can…