Kettering Medical Center

The degree to which physical pain can be tolerated is different in all humans (Humphry, “Liberty and Death…”). One could only imagine the pain they’d be in if they were constantly enduring pain spasms, losing control of organ systems, and even endless coughing (Messerli). There is no purpose in letting a human being suffer endlessly until their body decides to give out. It would be a more human choice to let the patients decide for themselves if they want to end the suffering or not. Why let…

Washington D.C. I believe this program aligns perfectly with my professional goal of becoming a pediatric surgeon and scientist, and will allow me to become an excellent doctor. Georgetown provides a unique opportunity for medical education. I plan to take advantage of the Medical Education Research Scholar track. I am interested in academic medicine in the future, and this program will provide me the opportunity to develop myself in this regard. I hope to in the future be able to provide a…

focus of their medical careers and have the advanced medical education and training in order to perform surgery on them. [2] A pediatric surgeon performs a numerous amount of different procedures on children and adolescents, including appendectomies, surgeries to treat birth defects, and and pediatric oncology, or the study of child cancer. Being a pediatric surgeon, they work in hospitals and perform their major duties in an operating room. They are highly trained in several medical areas,…

pain than necessary. Physician assisted suicide gives the patient a sense of relief knowing when their time is up; he or she would be able to pick and choose when that time was. “Advocates believe that sick people who will be dying soon because of medical conditions should not be subjected to prolonged pain and physician-assisted suicide is the ethical way to do it” (Connect Us). Having assisted suicide legal would give patients the right to die on their terms and conditions and say when he or…

The Uses of Euthanasia in Today’s Society Matthew Donnelly was a middle-aged man who was consumed by skin cancer; he was no one of great importance, but simply was a man who loved life too much to leave it in pain. Matthew pleaded to the doctors to end this misery, but they refused because killing a man just to put him out of his misery would be immoral. People had not considered assisted suicide until the 1990’s when a man named Jack Kevorkian sparked the idea. Jack Kevorkian, or better known…

A pregnant woman needs her pregnancy to be monitored, so her doctor refers her to a diagnostic medical sonographer. Diagnostic medical sonographers also known as ultrasound technicians use specialized imaging equipment to produce images of a patient’s internal organs. Abdominal, breast, musculoskeletal, neurological, obstetric, and gynecologist sonographers are different types of ultrasound technicians. All sonographers place an ultrasound transducer on the part of the body that is being…

They would like nothing more than to go to medical school, so they can start achieving their dream. Sadly, many cannot. To be allowed into medical school, not only do you have to be one of the few that gets accepted, but you also need to have the financial background so you can pay your way through it. It should be easier to get into medical school so more people can become doctors. The cost of medical school averages at $51,044 per year. The cheapest medical school tuition would be if you go to…

certain ethical standards and personal values that are highly based on the merit of having a professional life. It is without question clinical medicine is evolving into a complex set of decisions making that place Patients at the highest pinnacle in medical care. Medicine has been for years regarded as a field that help people in alleviating burden of a disease and reducing pain. People have questioned many factors into how clinical medicine has been used to treat patients who are often in…

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses that focus on relief from an illness’ associated symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a serious illness, no matter what the diagnosis is (Materstvedt, 2003). This kind of care can address and potentially change many of the factors involved in individual request for assisted suicide by providing respect, careful attention, and open and sensitive communication in the…

As a pediatrician, a person is paid a healthy income. The starting pediatricians earn about $100K a year. After working for a long while, they earn up to $140K to $160K. Pediatricians that work in outpatient care centers receive about $170K, while a general pediatrician working at a medical or surgical hospital earns slightly less than that (Pediatrician: Physical Danger, Shmoop). A sizable income such as $100K to $170K a year is a nice bonus for getting to do something you are interested in and…