Medical specialties

Essays Discuss your top choice of medical specialty that you selected in the grid above. What inspires you to pursue this area of medical practice? My top choice of medical specialty is emergency medicine because I love the fast-pace and high pressure environment it provide. I like how each day presents new challenges that require the comprehensive knowledge and skill of the physician. One minute one is working on a stroke patient and the next a car accident victim came into the ER, the amount of pressure to control the chaos and remain calm at the same time is what I really love to do. But one of the main reasons that motivate me to become an ER doctor is working as a team. With patients often having a combination of disorders, it takes a team to work together thoughtfully in order to provide the…

Specialty Overview: Medical-Surgical Nursing The specialty I find particularly interesting is medical-surgical nursing. It is the single largest nursing specialty in the United States accounting for almost 1/6th of the nursing profession. A specialty organization in the medical-surgical nursing profession is the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSM). Medical-Surgical nurses have direct contact with patients and normally care for adult patients in different settings. I learned that it is…

Shriners Hospital for Children Philadelphia. St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children provides two kinds of rehabilitations programs, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy. St. Christopher’s provide speech therapy to children that difficultly with communication and swallowing. They have specialty programs for children with cleft lip and palate to teach them how to eat, swallow and speak after they have their surgery. St. Christopher’s provides Occupational Therapy for patients dealing with…

called tissures. This is one of the worst skin diseases you can possibly have,this is why some babies die after being born. Sad but true. If they survive it,they will have only fully recovered forty percent of their body. There are many other diseases that dermatologist have to deal with,many of them are rare,but very fatal. There is another disease that is deadly,it is called argyria. Argyria is a disease that turns your skin blue. It is a weird and fatal disease,it is weird because you get it…

“They believe in magic, they play pretend, there is fairy dust in their IV bags” (Grey’s Anatomy-Arizona Robbins). Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with children and their diseases. It isn’t about doing your job and leaving. You also have to care and have patience. You have to be able to do your job and make the children feel safe and secure. Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with children and their diseases. There are many branches in pediatrics--such as, pediatric…

objectivity and have concluded that they are found to be questionable and at times unattainable. This has led these philosophers to question not only the attainability, but its value. If, it is truly unattainable, of what value is it? And I would argue- why should medical knowledge achieving an objective standard in medicine be subjected to criteria that ‘traditional’ objective truths fail? This raises the question of how should objectivity be defined and if it is, in fact, desirable. I would…

Dermatologists usually don’t face any type of physical danger. Dermatologists have one of the safest jobs in the medical field. Popping pimples isn’t really considered dangerous until someone forgets to put on safety goggles (Shmoop.com). I would take precautions before messing with anything that could launch towards my face. 10. Becoming a dermatologist has some great satisfactions. Diagnosing a skin disease can change someone’s life and could better the quality of living (Shmoop.com). For…

experience. Although being joyous about her career, she did express some negatives. These negatives consisted of the troubling times that come when dealing with sick children. The positives of a patient having a full recovery and returning to normal life is extremely rewarding. When talking to Garett about my future plans of specialty options she recommended keeping an open mind when going into a clinical experience. It is important to give other areas an opportunity to spark an interest…

Conducting a Risk Assessment A 25-year-old patient has presented to the clinic today. The patient reports that she is homeless, a type II diabetic, HIV positive, and currently pregnant with a gestational age of 25 weeks. The patient also reports that she was previously seen at a community health clinic that has since closed due to monetary factors. At this point during the initial prenatal visit, the provider should perform a risk assessment on this patient. Prior to conducting the risk…

Whenever working in rehabilitation the recovery process tends to be a central aspect (Allen et al., 2013). Occasionally the disability might be a psychiatric and/or physical disability however the process is practically the same (Allen et al., 2013). Whenever an individual is conducting a recovery process, they must first create a prevention model. The prevention model is divided into three stages of primary, secondary and tertiary (Allen et al., 2013). In the primary prevention the matter for…