Family medicine

childhood tool kit was always at hand which had my typical tools: bandages, cloths, notepad, measuring tape, reflex hammer, penlight, and plastic stethoscope. My agenda was always to help others. From those days to today, my goal is to become the best Family Physician possible. This is a calling that I will not ignore because it is a part of who I am and what I want to become. I watched the television show "Scooby Doo" when I was younger and was so intrigued with it because it was about…

I am a physician and completed Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Comilla Medical College of Chittagong University, Bangladesh. After passing MBBS, I finished internship (residency) from Sylhet M.A.G. Osmani Medical College Hospital. I am now applying to Master of Public Health (MPH) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) to learn more about research methodologies and complex issues related to research. My interest in public health is closely linked…

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…

Medicine has always been such a diverse field of work you forget that there is another type of medicine, with the brief history of osteopathic medicine, then just the run down of the doctor who invented it and lastly the school of medicine where I'd like to finish my career and begin my osteopathic one. Osteopathic medicine came to be from a philosophy from Andrew Still after family hardships. After he served in the Union army during the war as a hospital steward, later after the war his wife…

“Medical Miracles” are a treasured and exciting part of medicine and its advancement. They are indicative of great progress in medicine as well as unique occurrences for events that result in a happy or positive outcome. The discovery of ‘Immortal Life’ in cells happened in the mid-1900s following the treatment of an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks. The cells taken from her cervix were the first of human cells to grow rapidly and reproduce many generations of cells in a culture in a…

When I applied to the BA/MD program as a senior in high school I had so much to write about my interest in medicine that the essay portion of my application came out to ten pages. I have even more to write about now, but four years and a hundred academic essays later, I have come to realize that the simpler answer is often the better one. Simply put, I want to to medical school because it will provide an opportunity to do work that is truly meaningful and of value to others. The experiences I…

spirit catches you when you fall down” is the diagnosis that her parents gave her illness. The Lee family believed in spiritual healing rather than prescribed medication from the doctor. Against the doctor’s medical regimen, Lia’s parents did not follow instructions because of the side effects of the medicine. Unfortunately, their daughter’s condition worsened. On May 18, 1988, Fadiman met the Lee family in Merced, California. She heard that other Hmong patients and the medical staff from the…

The integration of basic science with clinical medicine first caught my attention during preclinical physiopathology courses. It was however not until after a few months of clinical clerkship that I was able to fully appreciate the role of Internal Medicine as the backbone of medical sciences. I vividly remember how one of medical school mentors always told me that “an internist always investigates.” Internal medicine physicians rarely have the luxury of providing a quick cure for…

Medical interventions may be able to increase or even decrease life expectancy. Sometimes medicine is not the cure to all the sociological disease, and they have to get away from their comfort zone, such as changing environment or changing behavior and attitude towards life. What is sociology? Sociology is the study of social problems, and when…

example Henrietta’s family was never notified concerning the cells and their profound impact, “’Gardenia’s brother-in-law told Bobbette that Henrietta’s cells had been all over the news lately because they’d been causing problems by contaminating other cultures. But Bobbette just kept shaking her head and saying, “How come nobody told her family part of her was still alive?”’ (Skloot 940). No one told her family about her cells or that her cells were still growing. No one told her family that…