Emergency medicine

Adventure fills the soul, and so does Medicine. While working for two years as a Medical Officer in rural Nepal, I examined cases from different departments be it Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics or Obstetrics and Gynecology. Our hospital served as a referral center for three neighboring districts with a population of, about 600,000. We were limited medical officers managing patients independently. This came with a lot of responsibility and for the first time, I realized that I was dealing with a…

physicians to monitor my health and wellness with blood work and physical exams. Compared to the Nacirema culture, my health choices target an upstream approach of health care. With their culture in mind, I would urge the people to see visit the medicine men at least once a month until they completely understand their health. It may be difficult to relate this information to the community without being culturally destructive because they may feel like my suggest is targeting them for not being…

The effectiveness of the current triage practice under the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines. Introduction The Accident and Emergency (A&E) department is one of the most busy department in most of the Hong Kong public hospital. In the A&E department, there are many patients attend to them daily so to be able to ensure that patient in a more serious problem can be able to get higher priority in the hospital, Hospital Authority (HA) utilizes the triage system to classify…

In Adolescents." Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise 45.6 (2013): 1030-1037. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 28 Mar. 2016. This source talks about concussions in adolescents than can cause attention disorders and executive function. This was an experiment that was conducted on the adolescents that had a concussion and how they were affected. Daneshvar, Daniel H., et al. "Long-Term Consequences: Effects On Normal Development Profile After Concussion." Physical Medicine &…

Soren wore a tan vest and white pants as he continued to wait. He looked around the room that is just too well-ordered as everything in it had a place. Wooden shelves surrounded the room with jars on top of them. Inside the jars, different kinds of medicine filled to the rim and the orders reeked the room. A purple rug covered the ground and another covered the doorway. Being told to remain inside the building till the physician returned. Soren started to wonder which jar he looked at had…

their effect on outcomes`, as a lot of women does not speak English. Birthright organisation stated that language barriers can lead to a poorer quality care and are challenging for the healthcare professionals. In obstetrical and gynecology where emergencies are common and urgent consent is required an interpreter might not be there on time. I speak Romanian and feel I can be very useful in my local community as a midwife. I realise that midwifery is a very competitive career to enter and I…

Knowing the “right” thing to say to someone in a moment of tragedy is never easy. Neither is achieving the balance between letting someone express their emotions and comforting them. But this is what I have seen doctors do time and time again in the Emergency Room and other departments within the hospital. As a volunteer advocate for survivors of interpersonal violence in the ER, I have seen tragic cases that are difficult to grasp because of the sheer amount of cruelty and suffering they…

Introduction The assertive community treatment (ACT) is a service providence model to the severe mental ill patient at the grass root level. It provide the after hospital discharge or treatment services. This model based is the hypothesis of the Leonard Stein and Mary Ann Test and their colleagues in Madison, Wisconsin, and it came in the force by the team from USA in 1970. This model is giving the very positive result and after that the many developed countries had been followed to the model…

known herbs used for medicinal purposes was marijuana, according to Janet Joy, senior program officer at the U.S. institute of medicine stated in her book, “the emperor Shen Nung (circa 2700 BC; also known as Chen Nung) [who is the father of Chinese medicine] discovered marijuana…

Choosing to study medicine is not a decision I have taken lightly. It is not a career I have wanted to do since a particularly young age, but a life changing event prompted my choice. I thought very long and hard before deciding to apply for medical school. The same is true for deciding to apply for the Physician Assistant program. My story began at the age of 10 years, when I woke up at 3:00 am at my mother's scream because my father suddenly became unable to speak and move. We discovered…