Love Medicine

clear that learning about medicine and science had become my passion. Throughout my life I have taken up many obstacles and challenges that required diligence, patience, and hard work to be overcome. These obstacles are what have sculpted me into the individual that…

Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down recounts the hardships of the Lees, a Hmong refugee family from Laos, with the Western/American healthcare system in Merced, California in treating their daughter, Lia, who has epilepsy. Nao Kao and Foua, the parents, believe Lia has a condition called “quag dab peg”, which translates to “the spirit catches you and you fall down.” This is a condition that is well esteemed and honored in Hmong culture because it suggests that the person…

From early on , I knew I wanted to do something regarding medicine. I didn’t really know, in what branch of medicine I wanted to study in. Until one day ,I found myself at the doctor 's office, and I noticed this cute baby; I started making him laugh that’s when a nurse approached me and asked me if I liked babies. We talked for a while, and I mentioned that I wanted to study something regarding medicine, but didn’t know what though. She asked me “why not become a children’s doctor”…

I can’t do this – the four words a student said to me on my second day of teaching. Here, the irony is that I think of these four words from time to time. From my childhood, I remember telling everyone that “I want to be a doctor when I grow up”. I don’t recall how I learn such answer, but I know for sure that it was my parents who opened the door to my imagination. There were many times when I asked myself if I would follow the goal, mostly because I was in a dilemma of figuring out if such…

taking off as I was the youngest person to be hired by The Remedium Institute. For the first years of my career, I worked with a team of scientists on cancer research. We worked crazy hours. After countless nights of no-sleep, my team discovered a medicine that cured the cancer in rodents. We were days away from a cure in humans.…

First, they need to complete a 4-year, bachelor 's degree. Next completing four years of medical school is required. Then 3-8 years of internships and residencies. Lastly is passing a state licensing exam to practice medicine. To exceed what is normally required to become a doctor of any specialty, aspiring OB/GYN’s must complete an additional 2-4 years of study in the field of surgery in which they will embark upon in their career. The expected outlook in the Obstetrician…

online as to what might be wrong, or what could help. After a few months the pain didn’t go away, it just got worse. Eventually my dad made a doctor's appointment. The doctors didn’t find any big problem, they just suggested tests, and prescribed medicines. They set up an home IV for a couple days, recommended yoga, meditation, and acupuncture. I remember one November day when I was in 7th grade coming home from school and seeing my dad sitting at the kitchen table with an IV in his arm and…

"Aging" is a part of life that no one can stop. Everyone will get get old no matter how much modern science improves to try and delay it. In most developed countries, facilities or Nursing homes have been setup to care for the Elderly. Some facilities are privately owned while most are maintained by the Government. In Britain, it was a common tradition for an Elderly person to go and live in these homes once their children have a family of their own. They will live the rest of their lives there…

really touched my heart was her love of reading. In my elementary school, there were only a couple of other kids who loved reading as much as I did. Teasing came my way as I earned 300 AR points one year and got the reputation of being a bookworm or nerd. I did not mind that title thought. Reading was I love of mine that began from a young age with my mother reading books to us at nighttime. The one book that was my favorite that she read was George’s Marvelous Medicine, At times, my mom had to…

1. The giver is written in third person limited, in which the narrator takes no place in the story but tells the story in the point of view of the protagonist, which is Jonas. In the book, Jonas is a twelve year old boy, in the movie however Jonas is eighteen years old. The age difference between the book and the movie is one of the major differences between the two; the maturation of the characters in the movie adds more romance and unnecessary drama. In both the movie and the book Jonas was…