Medicine Woman

The integration of basic science with clinical medicine first caught my attention during preclinical physiopathology courses. It was however not until after a few months of clinical clerkship that I was able to fully appreciate the role of Internal Medicine as the backbone of medical sciences. I vividly remember how one of medical school mentors always told me that “an internist always investigates.” Internal medicine physicians rarely have the luxury of providing a quick cure for…

A female visits the doctor with breast tenderness, a mysterious lump, and nipple discharge. After taking a biopsy, the doctor confirms the patients worst fear, she has breast cancer. Although it is not commonly recognized, medicine ties in to the humanities through the ideas of suffering and discomfort along with community and society. Doctors work with ill people every day to help them recover and heal; healthcare professionals help their patients find their way back into society. The…

rule number two, which states that friends of patient living close to the hospital were obligated to bring in change of clothes for patient. The second difference was noted in rule number three, where patients were to leave their valuables to the woman superintendent, before heading to their admitting floor within the hospital. The third difference was the limiting the amount of visitors that were allowed to see patients. The fourth difference which is not only precise, besides, confining, is…

women in a very significant way compared to other tv shows. In the very popular series of “Grey’s Anatomy” the characters have changed over the twelve released seasons. There are too many main characters to count, however, the show is mostly about a woman named Meredith Grey. When the show started there were just as many male characters as female. Now, as time has went by, it seems like the female…

During the build up to the 2016 Presidential election, the focus has been on the possibility of the first woman president of the United States of America. It is easy to forget or dismiss the impact that women have had throughout world history. From strong rulers to great thinkers history is filled with some of the most powerful and intelligent women who have defied all odds and surpassed the expected roles given to them by western civilization. Unfortunately, much of what we know about women…

The main issue described in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is portrayed on her awareness of how a woman is supervised and dominated by a man. Nevertheless, the social complexity of a woman’s substance should not solemnly rely on the dependent of a man. Perkins describes how particular John, the husband, was about how his wife, Jane, should follow each of her daily responsibilities very carefully, doing so every hour of every day. The underlying issue is how John’s…

Retrospective diagnosis is examining the evidence/archives from ancient medicine or any other era and comparing that data to today’s era of medicine, or it can be to diagnose a patient from the past with today’s knowledge by using the documents and/or artifacts that may be relevant or pertain to the patient. Therefore, this paper is going to examine how retrospective diagnosis works, examples of retrospective diagnosis, it’s strengths and weaknesses, and why retrospective diagnosis is important…

make decisions on the spot, there is no goal other than to save the patient from start to finish. What I find most fascinating about medicine is how physicians obtain knowledge that so few people in the world possess. Regarding my own habits, I find myself to work best in intense situations, in which time is of the essence. My initial attraction to the field of medicine began…

Dressed in a simple sari and covered in blood, an unfamiliar woman rushed into my house desperately searching for my grandfather, the only physician in a forty mile radius. The next few moments brought chaos and generated quite the interest in our usually quiet village of Aklacha in Gujarat, India. Immediately, my grandmother quickly sent my cousin and I into our room and told us to stay there until they handled a “situation” at the neighbor’s house. As any adrenaline-pumped, curious-minded…

Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelwei. New York: W.W. Norton. Reviewed by: Nasra Hajir In The doctor’ plague by Sherwin Nuland, the author narrates history of medicine and how politics played a role in hindering medical progress. In the beginning of the chapter, the author began narrating about a young woman who died after delivering her first child. After his clinical observations and research, Ignac Semmelwei, an obstetric discovered about the childbed fever. This dreadful…