Neurosurgery

Carson became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. His specialty is hemispherectomies. His biggest task was separating conjoined Siamese twins that connected at the back of the head. Carson performed the surgery which did include him having to cut the Twins’…

Exciting story to draw in audience and transition as to why this sparked my interest in becoming a PA. Imagine waking up one morning and looking into the mirror only to see an unrecognizable, aged face. You are in a foreign house with strangers surrounding you. They insist that this is your home, and that they are your family. You have an entire history of memories, but today you cannot remember the day or even the year. This is how my great-grandmother described her journey with Alzheimer…

Article Nurses’ attitudes to assisted suicide: sociodemographic factors by Luke Evans seeks to discuss the different variables that effect nurses’ feelings towards assisted suicide. Evans is a staff nurse at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, United Kingdom. Specifically, Evans explores the factors of nurses’ geographical location, religion, specialty and level of education which is important for nurses to understand how they contribute to assisted suicide. As more…

As a child growing up I always knew what I wanted to be. Whenever I was asked that famous question, without hesitation, I always replied, "I will be a Doctor and help to heal the sick". I truly believed that. In fact, my determination and drive towards this career path, lead me to easily choose to specialize in the Science Research field at High School for Health Professions and Human Services. This is where I was first introduced to the medical environment and experienced the excitement of it…

I have been a nurse at the University of Michigan hospital for eleven years. Currently, I work in the psychiatric emergency department. Our patients’ ages range from toddlers to adults. Some of the frequent diagnoses we see are: bipolar disorder, suicidality, psychosis, anxiety, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. These patients can be very challenging and often have complex medical comorbidities such as cancer, diabetes, cardiac problems, and other medical problems. My job is to…

Technology – Hurting or Helping Literacy by Jim Trelease is article about Dr. Ben Carson, who is a very successful doctor who was one of the finest Brain surgeons in the world. At the age of 33 John Hopkins University named him head of pediatric neurosurgery. This article talks about how Dr. Ben Carson was raised by his mother in a “fatherless inner-city home” (Trelease, n.d.)by a mother who had no more than a third-grade education. Carson grew up in Detroit, which was known as one of the…

: The movie begins in 1987, where Dr. Ben Carson goes to Germany to visit a couple, who have twins conjoined at the head. Ben knows that chances of saving them both will be a risk, because one baby always dies in situations like that. Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will wait for a time so he can come up with a plan to save them both. While looking into some of his books, the movie flashes back to the year 1961, when Ben is 11 years old and he is in the elementary school as…

hearing implant. The implant consists of a receiver barely beneath the skin that is positioned within the brainstem. Some disadvantages of auditory brainstem implants are that the surgery can be very complex and dangerous. These risks of undergoing neurosurgery can affect a person’s overall wellbeing. Positioning the auditory brainstem implant device on the part of the brainstem that delivers sound is a difficult task to obtain. Differentiation of sounds can be difficult for the client receiving…

SCIENCE As early as 9000 years ago, man’s first trip to the dentist resulted when a minimum of nine individuals survived the procedure of drilling holes into their molars in a Neolithic Indus Valley village in today’s Pakistan. Findings push the dawn of dentistry by 4000 years when a drilled molar was noticed in a Neolithic graveyard found in Denmark, to several years earlier. In fact, recent evidence hints the innovation of dentistry with drilled molars found in the teeth of 300 individuals…

Leadership development is the method of designing an atmosphere which stresses the importance of developing skills and knowledge that cultivates an establishment both economically and emotionally. Developing and training leaders for the future is very crucial to the success of an organization. For a business to achieve success, executing a leadership development plan is fundamental to an organization. Research has discovered that many leadership programs develop individual leaders, and not…