Family medicine

differ about medicine, authority and raising children. The Hmong have struggled throughout history to preserve their unique culture fighting especially against Chinese dominance. And the primary reason for their migration to the United…

Worth the Wait Medicine. Many people have had a profession from this field scrolled down on their imaginary or physical possible-professions list. However, this may not be the best profession for you. Many of the medical shows out there, such as Grey’s Anatomy, which both romanticizes and dramatizes the health field, are not the best reference for a wannabe-med-student. Medicine is a demanding field that people must prepare for, or else a lot of time and effort will be wasted. Before completely…

In Tokyo, Japan many of the nursing homes primary owners are the land owners themselves and some time in many cases the nursing homes facilities run as the family business of few generations. As we know that the Japanese nursing homes patients only pays 10 percent of the taxes out of their pocket for the services they are getting in the nursing homes and since prices are fixed by government, so nursing homes cannot raise the price as they want or even in loss the nursing homes cannot close down…

I belong to a family where being a physician has become a tradition. Not long ago, none of my forefathers were educated. It all changed when my grandfather had a problem with his knees. The best doctors in the country advised a biopsy and a sample was taken and sent to the U.K. My family was shocked when the results reported a malignant growth and doctors advised an above knee amputation. How could a young, healthy and athletic man like my grandfather have such a deadly disease? A hero appeared,…

“Here is your medicine”, the nurse said as she walked into the resident’s room. Working in a nursing home, I hear this phrase all the time. Even as a nursing assistant, I hear it every time a nurse comes in to give a resident medicine while I am trying to give care to him/her. I used to think that a nursing home was a happy place that all elderly people went when they retired; however, as I got older I realized that I was wrong. Elderly people need help because they cannot take proper care of…

What exposure have you had to osteopathic medicine? 500 words My first exposure to osteopathic medicine came when I sat down to interview Dr. Andrew Barnosky, an Emergency Physician at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. I then shadowed Dr. Nina Censoplano for a morning round at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at C.S. Mott Children 's Hospital. As I developed an interest in emergency medicine, I shadowed Dr. Ken Bishop for nineteen hours in the Emergency Department at the…

is said that Blackwell turned to medicine after a dying friend made the notion that her worst suffering would have been spared if her physician had been a women. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England on February 3, 1821 to Samuel Blackwell and Hannah Lane. Her family moved to America when Elizabeth was eleven and spent a good amount…

community it deals with as its primary focus; allocating its efforts to preventative medicine, and health promotion and studying the short…

Throughout the progression of history, the influence of medicine has enabled people to create groundbreaking inventions, which have saved millions of lives. Without the technological advancements of medicine, the medical world would be completely different. This advancement has allowed the population to thrive in knowledge and also has been able to maintain the stability of human life under stressful, life threatening conditions. Since the beginning of time, the human population has attempted to…

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. (Hippocrates) This was my main reason for enrolling into medical school. The progress of the human kind and civilization is the purpose of almost all of the college programmes. Medicine participates in this process in the most direct way. As far as i can remember i had always had this desire to help people in need; this desire dates back to my school days where i used to participate in every charitable event and help those…