Pathology

what career path to take, every one I considered was within the health field. After researching various possible careers, I had my heart set on speech-language pathology by the age of seventeen. Since I decided at that age, I have not once considered a different profession. I am truly committed to the profession of speech-language pathology. Communication is the essence of human life. The number of languages spoken throughout the world is astounding, let alone each individual dialect within…

In “Speech-Language Pathology Students Awareness of Language Differences Versus Language Disorders” by Levy and Sola, the authors examine how much Speech Pathologist actually know about the differences between language difference’s verses language disorders. They gathered 124 students majoring in Speech Pathology and gave them a questionnaire about bilingualism and dialectal differences. 80% of the participants were bilingual as well. Questions were pulled from a speech pathology text book and…

PHYT 6311 Clinical Pathology – Fall 2017 Assignment Due date: Monday 11/16/17 – turn a copy of the following questions/answers and a copy of the article in to my box (in the PT main office) by 5:00. Be sure to write your name on the assignment text and article. Assignment and rubric: Choose a disease, syndrome, or other pathology that has relevance to the practice of Physical Therapy to cover for this assignment. You can choose one from the book or journal article or from a class…

explain, the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease being a “...multifactorial disease in which environmental factors and genetic predisposition contribute to the pathology” (1). Since Alzheimer’s is a multifactorial disease there are several theorized causes for it, a few being genes, hypercholesterolemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypertension, obesity…

A coroner is someone who examines dead bodies and sees what caused that person to die. Some interesting things about the Grundy County Coroner, (John W. Callahan) is that he examines the fingerprints and x-rays of the dead body and he looks at the DNA records with the fingerprints and he takes all of this to the law agencies to see what they can do with it to see how they actually died. First, John Callahan when he works on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week getting calls at his office for Union…

The process of a postmortem examination is to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease is called an Autopsy; it is performed by a doctor called an Autopsy Surgeon who most often than not has to cut open the body of the deceased to examine the insides of the person’s body such as organs to see if there are telling signs to lead to a cause of death such as poison in the liver or punctures in the lungs. Understanding the role the medical examiner (autopsy surgeon) plays in evaluating…

Bone pathology involves understanding the causes and effects of bone diseases. Bones undergo a continual process of breakdown and renewal to maintain maximum bone strength. Healthy bones provide support and durability. Skeletal diseases of bone are often contributed to the severities of low bone density, mass, or deterred bone tissue. Osteoporosis is one of many bone diseases. Osteoporosis occurs when the formation of new bone doesn’t keep up with the elimination of old bone. It’s a…

Speech Language Pathology After utilizing the various assessment tools on the Virginia Education Wizard website, I was reassured in my career goal of becoming a speech language pathologist. Each of the assessments gave me quite different career clusters to consider. My skills point me towards careers in STEM, health services, and manufacturing, while my values point me towards law and public safety, marketing, and the arts. Luckily there was some overlap in my interests, which led me towards…

humans the ability to walk and perform different functional tasks in a bipedal stance. The foot is vulnerable to a significant amount of stress during the daily grind. Hence, these repetitive stress at times can be the antecedent to certain foot pathology. This theory on repetitive stress is currently one of the accepted causes of a painful foot condition known as Morton 's neuroma [MN] (Rout et al., 2009). For this week 's discussion, the author wishes to discuss the two diagnostic imaging…

the two most important ones being that they’re impulsive and risk takers. “What they have is never enough, they always want more money. Banking has become a contest for them, mine is bigger than yours.” This ties in with the theory of personal pathology and personality factors. Personality may sometimes have a function in white collar crime, some research has pointed out that those who commit white collar criminal offenses may be “reckless and egocentric.” “Stanton Wheeler’s research on…