Hernia

surgery in the hospital for some reason, and I noticed when I looked at my stomach there was something protruding from it, but I wasn’t certain of what it was. I immediately go to the doctor in Roane County, and they told me that I had a hernia. This was the second hernia in…

competitive golf for several months due to long-standing problems with his back. Day finished tied for 12th, while Justin Thomas, one of the PGA Tour’s brightest young stars, ran away with the tournament by finishing with a -22 under par 270. After two hernia surgeries late in 2016, Phil Mickelson will make his 2016-2017 PGA Tour debut at the Farmers Insurance Open. Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California is a hometown golf course for Mickelson, who serves an unofficial role as ambassador of the…

No matter how small a human is, every being deserves chance to be treated. Fetal surgery has been introduced and developed rapidly over the past decades. It has become an important way to save and provide a good quality of life for the unborn children. Over the years several approaches have been developed for conducting fetal surgery, depending on patient’s condition and the best ways to repair the abnormality in the uterus. As other medical interventions, fetal surgery has its risks and…

in the neck. Symptoms may last from months to years and the most common life-threatening complication is aspiration. Other complications include, massive bleeding, esophageal obstruction, fistula formation into the trachea, and coexistent hiatal hernia, esophageal spasm esophagogastroduodenal ulceration and achalasia. SCC within a Zenker’s diverticulum is extremely rare…

Barbie. Just the word brings back memories from my childhood, but Barbie has been getting some negative press in the past few years. Lately, feminists have critiqued Barbie for her unrealistic body shape and even call her “hyper-sexualized.” According to a recent CNN article, “In October, Mattel reported that worldwide Barbie sales fell 4% in the third quarter of 2015. And the company's stock price was down nearly 43% from its 2013 peak.” In order to improve the loss of revenue and their…

An omphalocele is a birth defect in which abdominal organs, primarily the intestines, herniate out of the body through a hole in the navel. Omphaloceles vary in size from containing only a portion of the small intestine to a majority of the abdominal organs, including most of the liver. This latter scenario, which includes about a third of omphalocele cases, is referred to as a giant omphalocele and can involve complications due to a small abdominal cavity and underdeveloped lungs.…

just a title reserved for the select few that inspire such terror and fear in man that it is easier to mythologize them as a inhuman beast rather than a human? In the novel A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe only a handicapped child born with a brain hernia is ever referred to as a monster. The novel’s main story is about the journey of the father of this monster child referred to only as Bird, and his attempt to kill off his newborn son and flee to Africa. Bird is fearful that the child will…

Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey was thirty four when he died in Columbia Correctional Institution in 1994. He was born in Milwaukee, a city in the state of Wisconsin. Jeffrey was a really happy boy until the age of six when he had to get a surgery for double hernia. Following Surgery which coincided with the birth of his brother, Jeffrey became more isolated and was lacking self confidence. Also when Jeff's dad found a good job in Ohio he moved away and his insecurities deepened. As a teenager he was…

Endoscopy and bronchoscopy doctors undergo most of the same training as other doctors, and then they take additional training to develop special skills. A typical course of training includes a four-year undergraduate degree, followed by four years of medical school, to acquire their M.D. degree and qualify for a medical license. After that, they usually complete a three-year residency program in internal medicine, and a three to four year fellowship in Gastroenterology of pulmonary medicine.…

Ernest Rutherford was born in rural Spring Grove, on the South Island of New Zealand on August 30, 1871. He was the fourth of 12 children, and the second son. His father, James, had little education and struggled to support the large family on a flax-miller’s income. Ernest’s mother, Martha, worked as a schoolteacher. She believed that knowledge was power, and placed a strong emphasis on her children’s education. At age of ten at Foxhill School Ernest Rutherford received his first science book.…