Medicine

One of the main obstacles to reach the goal of personalized medicine is due to the inability of the patient's current record for integration with patient data as they are stored in different settings and across different health care providers. The assimilation of this data into a single package could allow not only health professionals to provide better patient management, but also help patients during medical emergencies. The growth of the IT industry in recent years has lowered the cost price…

Medicine fascinated me even when I was a child. I remember being about eight years old when my pediatrician asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Without hesitation, I told him I wanted to be a doctor. I view medicine as discovery, the chance to learn the science surrounding the human body and develop the skills that will allow me to heal others. As I entered college, I pursued experiences that exposed me to the world of medicine, becoming more involved within my community and university.…

positive or negative based on whether the disease is cured. For the last 40 years, Western medicine has established its bioethics into four principles: autonomy, non-malfeasance, beneficence, and justices (Tsai). In other words, a medical provider has to respect each patient’s decision, while also making sure he or she receives the most benefits and the least harm from the treatment. Supposedly, Western medicine is based on these four principles, but the failure to provide cultural attention to…

Natural Medicines (herbal) are compared Lab Medicines? Well surprisingly, they aren’t all that different. Matter of factually, they get a lot of the same jobs done when used to treat people. Also, lab made medicines come from a lot of the same chemicals found in herbs used to make all natural medicines. So if you ever wonder which type of medicine would be better for you don’t worry about it, they both get the same job done. That’s why I believe that all natural medicines and lab made medicines…

The Role of Sound and Music in Medicine Touch, sight, taste, smell, and sound; these are the means in which we interact with the world. I ask the question; which one is more important? We have all been asked this before, but has it been given enough thought? Enough research and time? Obviously this is a loaded question, filled with more subjective thoughts and personal preferences than researchable facts. In any case; all the senses are instrumental in our perception of the world. The…

I have chosen medicine as my career path. I intend to pursue medicine for a variety of reasons including the ability to have a significant impact on the world and to altruistically assist people. Numerous students often dream of achieving a line of work exclusively for financial security. Although such a motivation is perfectly acceptable, I believe that I am in a position to exceed the goal of financial security and aim to assist people without personal benefit to the best of my abilities.…

were not a monopoly. Since patients had the authority to choose who they wanted to treat them, market relations were essential. In particular, the primary sources from The Making of the English Patient demonstrate how patients shaped early modern medicine. These sources unveil the pitfalls of only looking at a patient-focused history and how suffering was depicted as social and cultural occurrences. During this time, illness was viewed as an object that could be manipulated through various…

Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) has been used since the beginning of China’s recorded history, and has not changed all that much. It has evolved with the times and includes some of today’s understandings of the body but it still holds true to its basic principles. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, TCM comes from Taoism and has an estimated 1 million patients in the United States. Typically, people think of a witch doctor with dog bones and ivory powder…

traditional medicine by Mayan people (Wynberg 2009). This bioprospecting program has upset and outraged people in Chiapas who claim that their indigenous knowledge and resources are being stolen (Wynberg 2009). People who worked and led this project took knowledge from the people of Chiapas and took plant samples with almost nothing in return (Wynberg 2009). This biopiracy and bioprospecting is something that really hurts medicinal healers in the Mayan areas, but it doesn’t stop them from…

Emergency medicine is a fast-paced, team-oriented specialty where you can have an enormous impact on your patients for emergency physicians are experts at diagnosing and managing patients for quite literally anything. This would be my idea of a "dream-job"; and no, this isn't because of popular stereotypes of asians having these types of jobs although, I do have to admit that this is an unusual choice in comparison to others who might want to be teachers, chefs, police officers, etc. In my eyes…