Meharry Medical College

Good morning, I'm once again excited to share another positive outcome with one of our Putting on AIRS (POA) partners; Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Specifically in this instance with Chris Corcoran from Connecticut Children’s Healthy Homes Program. I'll acknowledge, it can at times be confusing for all of you to figure me out....and I'm not just referring to my role as POA Coordinator in 3 Regions (please no comments from the peanut gallery). Although, , once the confusion unravels,…

What was interesting about this article was that even if a physician tells a patient the truth, a patient may not interpret that information the way it was supposed to be interpreted. A person with anxiety may make it something it’s not and someone with cancer may think that just because they have cancer, they will die. People don’t always understand the physiological functioning of their body. Another thing Lipkin mentions is that some people cannot handle the full truth, because it may be…

Traumatology, its simple to say it, to write it, but it implies many things. From broken bones to back injuries to motercicle accidents all these have one thing in common: a traumatologist. Ever since i was small i liked watching videos of people falling and breaking their arm or leg it sounds weird but believe me its not because i enjoyed their suffering but for the fact that i could examine on television the way their extremity looked and moved like a spaguetti. I always wondered how they…

First, I plan to graduate with honors, obtaining an advanced diploma from Midlothian High School that enable me to apply to Virginia Tech. I will get a Bachelor’s of Science degree from my studies at Virginia Tech and then I will go on to their medical school. These requirements will take me 12 years. Although this is a lengthy amount of time, it will allow me to move to my residency. I would like to complete my residency at a hospital on the East Coast, close to home. All in all, this is an…

Over the years medical science has grown through remarkable research. The tremendous progress that we obtain remains directly correlated with the work performed in research laboratories. Unfortunately, the testing of numerous experimental medications and chemicals need to be performed on a variety of living animals. I not setting aside the fact that these animals experience actual painful disease while researchers complete laboratory experiments. After the viruses are introduced into the…

The selected topic is aging, death, and dying. The motivation behind this choice is the inevitability of aging, death, and dying. All people regardless of their social status are subject to the forces of getting elderly, and ultimately death. Many people die in ways that cannot be restrained, and are never privy to their place or time of death. As much as the process of aging, death, and dying may seem overwhelming, there are techniques that individuals can leverage to guarantee that they…

anatomy, and anesthesia. In time, I will gain clinical experience working directly with patients with the supervision of a licensed dentist. Admission into dental school is competitive, but the field offers three general degrees such as Doctor of Medical Dentistry (DMD), Doctor of Dental Medicine (DDM), and Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS). All three of these titles are for general dentists and one is not superior to the other, however, I plan to acquire…

Advancements of Prosthetics Over the Years 1 in 190 Americans are currently living with the loss of a limb, in the year 2005 1.6 million people were living with the loss of a limb (Langtree,2016). Therefore, prosthetics have advanced due to the change to lighter material, the change in mobility (movement),and the design has become more productable and useful for the amputee. “The evolution of prosthetics is a long and storied history, from its primitive beginnings to its sophisticated present,…

are not the only thing that someone can donate. It has been asked if we could donate our medical data after we die. “Why? Because medical research cannot take place without medical data, and the sad fact is that most people’s medical data are inaccessible for research once they are dead” (Shaw, Gross, and Erren 2017). There are the data rights to consider, the rights being the medical confidentiality where medical records are not to be shared or researched unless the patient consents…

Euthanasia has been widely controversial when the practice pertains with humans. We have been using the techniques for decades when putting our pets out of misery, and yet we can not do the same for our own race. Only five states in America fully allow doctors to prescribe medications and perform assisted suicides. Legalizing assisted suicide throughout the country will make it easier for to get the treatment that they want, and bring reassurance to the patients and their families affected by a…