Gold Coast Hospital

Medicine has been one of the most respected professions in society throughout the ages. Paul Kalanithi was called to medicine and devoted a third of his life to best serve his patients, yet medical school and residency began to transform Kalanithi’s mindset towards a “robotic” and apathetic approach. Truly, Kalanithi was not able to understand medicine from his patients’ perspective until he became terminally ill. When Breath Becomes Air integrates the reader into the story and asks the question…

I was twenty-five years old, single, and a lab tech at a local hospital. I always thought of being a nurse but considered other jobs as well. I believe in the value that every individual should be treated with love and respect. I also believe in the value of a team or group effort. Martha is fifty-one years old, married, and a deli worker by day and a telemarketer at night. Martha’s moral commitment to animals is impressively strong. Myself and Martha are different people, living different…

I decided to try and get myself checked into a psychiatric hospital, I wanted to feel better. They told me "You aren't severe enough." When I walked out of the building, I lost it. I broke down, I screamed because I didn't even want my parents to look at me. I had one of my friends with me, he had been in one of those places before. When we got in the car, he just held me and pet my hair while I stared out the window. I was just so broken feeling. I always joke about my depression when I'm…

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Clinical Reflection: Prioritization I walked into the emergency department for the clinical observation expecting to see nurses and doctors in an organized chaos, hustling, running, and bumping into each other in their effort to provide life sustaining critical care. Too, I was hoping to see George Clooney performing advance cardiac life support to a patient who was coding, like a scene straight out of the television show. However, that was not what I saw. Instead, I found how calm and…

this model a committee made up of bedside nurses and nursing managers decide the level of nursing care needed for staffing (Serratt, Meyer, & Chapman, 2014). Public disclosure models were created to facilitate transparency in nurse staffing. Hospitals are required to disclose their staffing plan for public viewing. Some believe that open disclosure is an efficient way to ensure a hospital’s compliance and will allow patients/consumers the chance to make an educated decision about where they…

The article, “The beauty of Bodysnatching”, By Druin Burch is a piece that brings to stage questions of morality, and furthermore the implications of one’s ability to transcend societies limitations. Burch begins the article by introducing different anatomists all practicing in the same period of time, each of whom found their own unique way of coping with the controversy that came along with practicing surgery in the 1800’s. Burch centers his article around one anatomist in particular who had a…

problem is that, pharmaceutical companies can learn from their previous product and make necessary adjustment to the life cycle of the product. These companies can invest technology that will shorten life cycle by creating new distribution channels. Hospitals can take an initiative by controlling the pricing of the products set forth by pharmaceutical companies. Other issues that rises up the lack of predictability for the demand for medicine. Some clinician’s preferences can create more…

problem. The number of patients visiting EDs is growing rapidly. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) there were approximately 136.3 million ED visits in 2015, which is 112.7 million more that in 1993. Only 11.9% of ED visits result in hospital admission (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016). With high volumes, and low admission rates, EDs all over the country are challenged to seek solutions to this real, moral, ethical, and logistical dilemma. To seek…

Introduction: Apollo hospitals group was the first co-operate hospital in India and it founded by Dr. Prathap c Reddy in the year 1983, which was started as the 150 bedded hospitals in the state Tamilnadu, and today it is the largest hospital group in Asia with almost 10,000 beds across 64 hospitals, 100 primary care and diagnostic clinics, 2200 walk in pharmacies, 115 telemedicine clinics and 15 academic institutions within and outside India. It is also estimated that about 4925 doctors , 8264…