Neurosurgery

A qualitive descriptive research article which aims to portray transgender patients’ journey through surgical gender reassignment and how their encounters with health care professionals affected their experience. The experiences are influenced by healthcare professionals’ attitudes, level of knowledge and clinical experiences of transgender issues. The method of a qualitive descriptive design, with open-ended interviews was chosen because qualitative research methods are particularly well suited…

unconscious and was rushed to the emergency department at TTSH. It was there when the patient was diagnosed with cerebral haemorrhage. An emergency neurosurgery had to be performed. Mr Nathan passed away and the post mortem showed that there had been continuous bleeding for few days in the brain which resulted in the complication of the emergency neurosurgery which could lead to the cause of death of the patient. The family came to know about this and sued the hospital and demanded for…

man without supervision or permission. Fortunately, the man lives and all ends well for Ben. As a neurosurgeon, Ben’s daring behavior didn’t cease to exist. He worked endlessly and the work paid off when he gained the title Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 1985. In 1985, he met a four year old girl who went through 100 convulses a day. To relieve her of these terrible moments, Ben informs the parents of a rare procedure called a hemispherectomy, in which he removes half her brain. Ben took…

Shaakirah Keith Prof. Brandy Daniels Knowledge Power Social Issues Women Are Facing The way our society is set up, it is hard for women to be who they wish to be without society criticizing them for multiple reasoning. A great number of our population and other countries still believe in the idea that women should not be educated, hold certain job positions, and are incapable of completing certain tasks. Women for the past few centuries have been proving to society that they are as equal as men…

intelligence of a human being could result in numerous outcomes, many of them negative, and all of them leading to unhappiness. In Flowers for Algernon, an operation aiming to increase the IQ of humans has been tested on Charlie Gordon. However, this neurosurgery has only been tested on mice before, and with inconclusive and insufficient data, the outcome for Charlie is unknown. As result of the operation, for instance, could be that Charlie deteriorates to worse than his original mental state…

and in collaboration with its academic partner, the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC has advanced the quality and efficiency of health care and developed internationally renowned programs in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, orthopedics and sports medicine, among others. UPMC is commercializing its medical and technological expertise by nurturing new companies, developing strategic business…

hospital visiting the offices. It might be more accurate to say that I was basically living in the hospital. At 6:30 a.m., I would go to the hospital while listening to the sound of the shakuhachi being played by a radiologist and do PR before the neurosurgery rounds started. At around 8:00 a.m., I would do PR in front of the surgeons' offices and PR before internal medicine outpatient examinations started before 9:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., I had meetings with the university team. I was locked away…

important; I feel is it needed, not mandatory. This idea is present in my matrix. I feel that categories such as passion and location are not that important because I am willing to move anywhere, and I could learn to love a job as many do. Pediatric Neurosurgery scored the highest because this job paid the most, and offered medium educational requirements, and offered the most…

Table of Contents Introduction 3 History of Robotics Surgery 4 Applications of Robotic Surgery in the recent years: 5 General Surgery: 5 Cardiothoracic surgery: 5 Cardiology: 5 Colon and Rectal Surgery: 6 Gastroinestinal surgery: 6 Gynecology: 6 Neurosurgery: 6 Pediatrics: 6 Literature Review 6 Disadvantages of Robotic surgery 9 Time 9 Cost 9 References 10  Introduction What is Robotics???? It is a branch of engineering (mechanical, electrical and computer science) that deals with…

they deliver or the type of hit that they have received during the regular season and the Playoffs which can lead them to miss a couple of games of the 2017-2018 season. According to the studies of Mitchel Berger, chairman of the department of Neurosurgery at the University of California at San Francisco and a member of the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee is encouraged that the number of concussions have decreased far from satisfied…