Plastic surgeons

The buzzer in the classic game of Operation kept ringing off as my companions and I were playing this frustrating game. The room echoed with “Ahhhs” and sighs as the plastic organs kept colliding with the surrounding cavities, while we were taking them out of impossible positions. I have always coveted to be a surgeon ever since I was a little child, and Operation was the primary testing ground of my skills. I know what you are going to say, “It’s such a childish game. It is not like the real…

his education in clinical training in plastic and general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. As you may know, when patients of all ages are sent into the operating room there are some concerns that he or she may not make it back alive. “…we practice on the very patients that we are delivering care to.” (Weinstock, 2016, 3:35). Which is why Peter Weinstock and a team of specialists work together to create simulations that will better prepare the surgeon and his assistants before the…

The Good Doctor: Episodes 1-4 The Good Doctor television show focuses on a surgical resident, Shaun Murphy, who has autism and savant syndrome. It takes place in San Jose, California. Shaun is described as having near-photographic recall and the ability to note extreme details and changes. The first episode started off with a medical emergency with an airport sign injuring a child’s neck. With his medical background, Shaun was able to stabilize the child. The doctors initially refused to listen…

the fact that orthopedic surgeons are in high demand. Orthopedic surgery looks like an interesting career, which I’d like to be in, in my future. A career in orthopedic surgery takes a lot of education and training, but has many benefits. There are many different kinds of surgeons in the United States. You have general surgeons, specialty interest surgeons, and specialists in the fields of surgery (“Sports Physicians”). Thirty-two percent of surgeons are general surgeons, who work on any part…

Surgery is a branch of medicine that uses the manipulation of a bodily structure to diagnose, cure, and prevent a disease. And according to Ambroise Pare a great French surgeon that “performing surgery is to eliminate what is superfluous, and restore what has been dislocated, and separate that which has been unite, and join that what has been divided, and repair the defects of nature”. Humans have used their talent to learn surgical techniques after making the surgical tools, each time better…

As can be seen in the society nowadays, media exerts significant impacts on how we view ourselves and inevitably encourage self-change by setting a social standard for appearance. People constantly compare their appearance to others as a representation of their social and personal worth (). Goethals (1986) suggested that people are instinctively involved into a self-evaluation or social comparison even if they do not want to engage in the process. There are many pieces of evidence which shown…

just seem like a color and a shape to some, but in the Seattle Grace hospital it represents the lives of every roaming doctor and nurse. Throughout the hospital, this red line is painted through hallways and doors. It represents where these elite surgeons are allowed to go, compared to the average citizen that walks in with a complaint. It separates areas where the hospital goes from being accessible to all, to only enterable by few. When one walks into a hospital there are many aspects to…

graduates to nationally certify. I performed all sorts of surgical cases at the major military facilities I was posted. During my eight years as a surgical tech, I had performed over ten thousand surgical cases, working hand to hand with various surgeons in the operation bed from different specialties which included: General Surgery, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmic Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Urology. As a…

Sketching arts and Surgery sound as two different worlds, but in reality they share many details. For an artist to draw, we must pay extra attention to any little details, which is what I do whenever I hold my pencil to draw. Similarly, surgeons have no room for any slight error because any small mistake could cost the life of our patients. I tend to think of them as one entity and this is why I see surgery as my passion. Growing up in Saudi Arabia in a small conservative city puts any girl into…

percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Meanwhile, in Kazakhstan, the first robot surgery in the country was performed, which marks a milestone for biotechnology nationwide in Kazakhstan. New information has also been released on the number of robotic surgeon models are active in NHS hospitals in the UK. To be fair, PCI is a non-surgical procedure; doctors go through the bloodstream via either the forearm or the groin to widen coronary arteries that are otherwise constricting. It’s…