Hysterectomy

Cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks, a black woman who died of cervical cancer during the first half of the twentieth century, led to dozens of groundbreaking medical discoveries. Despite this contribution, her family lives utterly destitute, her name forgotten by all but her most dedicated followers. Rebecca Skloot’s book attempts to correct this injustice, giving life to the woman many simply know as HeLa. Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks hammers the point home by using pathos to…

The Hispanic heritage is a beautiful and diverse culture that has brought many wonderful languages, dishes, and art to different countries around the world. Yet, while the Hispanic culture has many benefits, it is also negatively affected by oppressive views that objectify women in the cult of domesticity, and the traditional view that women belong in the home. These views then reinforce perceptions in popular media and expectations for men to be controlling over women, forcing Hispanic women to…

My dream has always been to be a physician and as I have gotten older I’ve realized that I do not just want to be any physician but rather a surgeon. As a surgeon you have countless specialties that you can pursue, whether it is: cardiothoracic, general, neuroscience, plastics, pediatric, neonatal, or OBGYN. This semester I am enrolled in PDBIO 220 (Anatomy) and have come to love and appreciate the human body more than ever. During our last weeks of class, we have been discussing the…

The hope is a multidisciplinary approach to care would produce a more comprehensive assessment and plan of care for the individual. Sometimes this is the case and other times it’s not. It really truly depends on the team members. Recently, we had a discharge planning meeting for a resident at our facility. The resident’s daughter is the Director of Admissions at our facility. Our social worker called her to explain that her father was making very little progress and she did not expect him to…

As long as I can remember, I have been helping people. I grew up in a Christian home, and am the oldest of 9 children. When I was small, I was around my grandparents and great grandparents a great deal. I learned compassion and caring almost as a part of my very being. My life has brought many challenges. I have experienced depression since my teenage years. I had suicidal thoughts that I came close to acting on several times. Something always happened to distract me from my plans. I was never…

Andrew Rider of Insurance Company referred this file for medical case management. Instructions were given to meet with Karen Hartman and assist with coordination of appropriate and related medical care, and identify needs to facilitate recovery. INTERVIEW SETTING On 11/9/16 I met Ms. Hartman at the office of Dr. McPherson. Ms. Hartman works at this medical office so she was already at work. She has not lost time due to her injury. She is alert and oriented and willing to work with a nurse…

chances of removing it will be great. The treatment of cervical cancer, in most of its subsequent stages, entrusted to eradicate cancer cells, which lead to an infertility to have children later. The treatment of cervical cancer therapies include: • Hysterectomy and eradication of the lymph nodes in the pelvic area. It may also require the necessary, sometimes, the eradication of both ovaries and fallopian tubes. • Radiation therapy • Chemotherapy It is determined by the amount of treatments…

I have been keeping a secret from my loved ones, but I wanted to share it tonight to kick off the start of PMDD awareness month which starts on April 1st. I was diagnosed with PMDD in November 2017 and for me to publicly share that with you is scary, and it makes me feel very vulnerable. Most importantly I wanted to share my story because PMDD doesn't have that much exposure and I wanted the women who related to my experience to go to their doctors with some knowledge and be able to speak up and…

Sexuality provides the opportunity to express feeling of love, strong feelings of pleasure and wonder, and true and positive statements of one’s body and its functioning. Many people judge others because of a stereotype or based off of what others say. I think that, as a community of people we tend to suggest that as we get older we lose interest in being sexual. Sexuality is something that is looked at as a younger generation activity for either just fun, or for reproduction. Younger…

also make children sterile (Jeffreys). Sterilization as a result of hormone therapy in children is a massive concern among medical practitioners. Early sterilization leads to bigger problems that children will have to face after they grow up, hysterectomies “as early as 18 years old in girls” and the danger of liver cancer (Jeffreys). Medical speculation suggest “birth defects may occur in children born to ‘transmen taking testosterone prior to pregnancy’”, but with no concrete evidence to…