Medicine Woman

arduous to say the least but I pulled through and never gave up. My drive and determination to succeed gave me the strength to do so. A specific event that contributed to my decision to pursue a residency in family medicine occurred during clerkship. I was taking care of a young woman, diagnosed with lymphoma. The tumor grew to about the size of a cantaloupe encircling her entire neck. I asked why it took her so long to seek medical attention. She said that she was afraid of the medical costs…

short fiction “A Worn Path,” the audience is introduced to an elderly woman called Old Phoenix. Phoenix faces a path that she has traveled many times to obtain some medicine for her grandson’s health. However, Phoenix comes across many obstacles and social forces that make her journey strenuous. Although, she always makes her way through the path to collect her grandson’s medicine, the stories audience is able to witness a woman who is strong and motivated enough to complete her mission, but…

In Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time Connie has been left at the mental institution by Geraldo and Dolly. There, Connie is forced into seclusion and heavy doses of Thorazine leaving her weak. During the time in seclusion, Connie remembers the negative parts of her past. She thought of Claud, her black and blind husband who was arrested for being caught pickpocketing, then died from experimental hepatitis injected in him without his consent during his prison time. During her mourning for…

virtue of women. He states that, “”All strange wonders that befell thee, /And swear/No where/Lives a woman true, and fair. (15-18)”. Donne knows that his audience will not find these “strange wonders”, so he comes to the conclusion that it’s impossible to find woman “true, and fair”. In these line “true and fair” means pure (virginity) and loyal. Donne interprets that it’s impossible to find a woman that is both pure and loyal. The tone in the poem shifts from playfully noticing the impossible…

If your average health practitioner is a woman, you may also to find the concept of a physical examination too embarrassing and accordingly opt for to consult a male physician. On the other hand, you may also opt for a complete stranger. Some guys worth their image and repute highly, and feel that…

The story Girl and speech Ain’t I a woman by Jamaica Kincaid and Sojourner Truth are very different but, similar. As stated being different, Girl by Kincaid is a story about a mother telling her daughter about how a proper woman. Then in Ain’t i a woman by Truth it is a speech about women's rights. One would realize that the similarity would not come clear until analyzed. After analyzing the paper one would see some of their idea would be men’s perspective of women, women’s intellect and how…

It has been truly said that medicine was conceived in sympathy and born out of necessity and that the first doctor was the first man, and the first woman, the first nurse. The prehistoric man, motivated by feelings of sympathy and kindness, was always at the behest of his kindred, trying to provide relief, in times of sickness and suffering. As a logical sequence, the medicine he practised consisted in appeasing gods by prayers, rituals and sacrifices, driving out “evil spirits” from the human…

“Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.” This quote by Rachel Grady sums up my feeling after reading about life through the eyes of Mary Crow Dog in her book Lakota Woman. Mary Crow Dog lived a life of joy and sadness, oppression and small victories, and little retribution. Her life wasn’t easy from her childhood through her adulthood she fought for survival of herself and her people, the Lakota People. This essay will…

The Abortion Rights Crusader Margaret Sander, an American birth control activist and writer, once said, “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” Internationally, women have fought and still fight for their rights and for gender equality. One of the most important reasons women have fought for decades is to be able to control their own body by having the right to access contraceptive methods and legal abortion. The fight for the decriminalization of abortion in Canada…

contribution to the medical field they are still unable to receive health insurance. Though upsetting, this was a norm throughout that time in the medical field. A norm that overly exposed and propagated a sickly African American woman and her…