Medical laboratory

Goal setting is an important part of the University experience and as students, most of us come in with dreams to become something or to create an impact on the world. In order to accomplish these dreams it is important to set small goals that ensure we take the necessary steps towards accomplishing our bigger dreams. Often times dreams are too big to accomplish on their own and having to tackle everything at once can be overwhelming. Therefore, writing things down in smaller steps can help…

people have protested, started movements and other organizations to try and stop animal experimenting. These innocent creatures are being tortured daily so we must step in and put an end to these disgraceful animal experimentations. Animal testing for medical research is wrong because of the lethal results, inhumane treatment, and lack of different testing methods. Animal experimentation allows the conduction of extremely…

maneuver around medical marijuana as a…

Wall of Silence Journal Entry One Medical errors occur every day whether it is from a nurse or physician and because of it’s occurrence, it is publicized and raises concern in the community. My level of awareness was little despite hearing stories on social media and from people around me. As I became a nursing student, I realized that medical errors happen more often from common mistakes that are preventable and nothing is done to solve it. Gibson and Singh (2003) mentioned, “hospitals and…

The United States is currently in a rut of anti-progressivism. In few areas is this reality more evident than in the popular objection to physician-assisted suicide. Physician assisted suicide, for the sake of argument, is the opportunity given to an individual suffering from terminal illness to end his own life quickly and painlessly by means of prescribed drugs. The practice provides relief for those under immense pain and suffering, but is a sensitive issue to argue in favor of, particularly…

believed that they are being treated and that procedures that were done to them were part of their treatment. Furthermore, the film also violated another requirement by the IRB, which is the respect for person (Criteria for IRB Approval, 2013). The medical personnel in the film failed to give informed consents to the patients, they were not aware of the study and the details of the study. Moreover, they did not maintain a privacy and confidentiality of patients and data involving the study. An…

so in New York, naming it the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary. This college held a very competitive, yet very comprehensive and well-structured program. Many women that attended the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary were very successful in completion. One woman that stood out most was Sophia Jex-Blake because she established her own Women’s Medical College in London. Not very long after Elizabeth established her own Women’s Medical College, she returned to England. In…

While medical use of marijuana is approved by over 23 states, there is just not enough research on its benefits. Karen Cicero, writer for Prevention says “Most of the research involves Marijuana or its individual psychoactive compounds administered in carefully measured doses.” Because so little research on Marijuana has been done “the FDA hasn’t removed it from its ‘schedule-one’ drug designation,” Cicero states, meaning that there is currently no medical use for it that is acceptable. NIDA…

However, one thing that all must do, is graduate from a four-year undergraduate school. Then after that, the requirements averagely include another 4 years of college, but instead, at a medical school, such as Emory or Duke. However, during the time of your medical school, a residency that, depending on what you plan on specializing on, can last between 2-8 years, basically saying, the harder your sub-specialization, the longer your residency. Soon after all this, one will…

The Right-To-Die Controversy is a very tough one. It’s hard to know who gets say in whether a person lives or dies if their wishes were not clear. Usually people will have a power of attorney, a person that decides everything when the ill person can no longer speak or decide for themselves. Even then, it is still a hard decision to make. Choosing to end a loved ones life is never an easy task. Euthanasia is “the practice of ending the life of a person suffering from an incurable…