Medical classification

During my neurology elective as a foreign medical student, I had ample opportunities to see patients with multiple neurological conditions that I had only read about in books. Participating in providing health care to such patients fueled my curiosity to learn in-depth about them and develop a deeper…

Problem: Swedish American Medical Center/Belvidere (SAMCB) is a smaller hospital in a neighboring town that Swedish American Health System in Rockford Illinois owns. At SwedishAmerican Medical Center/Belvidere, we currently have one Philips x-ray room and one AMX portable x-ray machine. The medical center only has one computed radiology (CR) laser reader. The x-ray room and portable x-ray both utilize this (CR) laser reader. If the laser reader happens to break down, we have no way of…

Introduction The topic of when life should end is still a very controversial one. Is turning off a life support actually killing a person or is the person’s life already dead in the first instance that is why it is being actually prolonged. In the same line of thought, what of actually being part of the process of assisting a despaired but terminally ill patient relieve themselves their pain by killing themselves. It is called assisted suicide. Is it moral or immoral, ethical or unethical? As…

ethics there are some pros and cons of animal experimentation. Some of the most important advantages are that they have contribute to many self-saving cures and treatments. “The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from…

would be interested in doing myself. This field is focused on advancing and making new discoveries that are all focused on the common goal of bringing the medical field forward every day. The idea of learning and doing something new every day and solving problems fascinates me. From creating artificial organs and prostheses, to fixing medical and surgical equipment, biomedical engineers make the world of medicine easier and more efficient. These engineers help people and solve new problems every…

Ms. Gore is a 36 year old female who presented to the ED via LEO under a custody order to be evaluated for suicidal ideation with a plan to overdose and hallucinations. Ms. Gore denies suicidal ideation to nursing staff. She states, "I'm not suicidal, just don't want to live anymore." Per documentation from MCM he reported Ms. Gore reported to him she misses her brother who died around this time of year. She reports to him she needs to go to a hospital to be put on the right medication. At the…

Evidence for the benefits and challenges of the PCMH delivery system: Benefits: The patient-centered medical homes model is growing and those practices have more non-physician clinicians on staff and higher utilization of electronic health records (Finnegan, 2017). This is crucial with the on-going shortage of health care personnel. • PCMH practices had…

In the early days of athletic training, it wasn’t that hard to become an “athletic trainer”. Trainers in the early days were basically volunteers. They didn’t have any type of training or certification to be doing that job. Up until 2003, a person would only need certification through NATA curriculum or an internship. In the internship route, a person wanting to be an athletic trainer would take various classes and courses like personal health, human anatomy, basic athletic training, and first…

Medical Animal Testing People have their own beliefs as to whether medical animal testing is beneficial or not. Animal testing is a sensitive subject for most people and they automatically disagree with it because of the inhumane way they treat animals. One problem is that animal testing in many people’s eyes is not ethically right. Scientists test on animals and inject them with the infection to try to find a cure for the disease. If the scientists inject two rats with the same disease and…

Although human genetic engineering is an innovative process, Leslie Pray and Danielle Simmons provide sufficient evidence to justify the limits that should be placed on these types of medical…