Plastic surgeons

While the pain is fresh and the glory is sweet, I decided to write this article about my experience running the marathon and how in my opinion, it correlates metaphorically of how I started and my diurnal responsibility as a Surgical Technologist. Less than a month ago; on March 19, I ran my 3rd marathon. It is becoming a yearly affair for me and my wife to ran the Los Angeles Marathon that we always look forward for the next year. It started 3 years ago when my wife signed me up for my first…

during his residency. However, the case does not say if Dr. Brown is a board certified surgeon or how long his surgical privileges last. According to the Board of Medicine regulation for Minnesota, physician assistants should practice medicine only with physician supervision (Minnesota Statutes, 2009). In Dr. Brown’s case, Dr. Brown should be considered a physician assistant because he is not a board certified surgeon. The evidence in Dr. Brown’s case shows he receives surgical privileges to…

I saw the surgeon and he agreed that my gall bladder needed to come out ASAP and scheduled my surgery for two days after my appointment. I was scheduled for a 10 am surgery. I went on like nothing until the day before my surgery, but when morning came I was a nervous…

The list contains information such as the surgeon being left or right handed. It is the technician’s job to make sure he or she has prepared the correct surgical instruments. Once the surgical tools are sterile and transported into the operating room the surgical tech is responsible for arranging…

Heysham Gibbon Jr.’s invention of a heart-lung machine, Gibbon was able to perform the first successful intercardiac surgery, also known as open heart surgery. Born in Philadelphia on September 29, 1903, Gibbon was born to John Heysham Gibbon Sr., a surgeon, and Marjorie Gibbon (Shumacker, 1982). Later in his life, he earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1923, and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1927 (Knight, 2001). Seven years later Gibbon went to work…

eventual death of the patient (Kirkup 2007). Prior to the incorporation of the Barber-Surgeons Company in 1540, the training of surgeons was done through apprenticeships, after which they were given oral examinations. However, many barber-surgeon apprentices were illiterate, and there was a huge discrepancy in the training. They also had little anatomical knowledge. On the flipside, more educated surgeons were very few in number at the time. After the incorporation, education became more…

Light At the End of the Tunnel Although Jeannette Walls and I share a common thread of being hospitalized at a young age, it is my belief after reading The Glass Castle that Jeannette had it far worse than I ever did. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette shares how she spent over a month in a hospital due to burns after she tried to make herself hot dogs. The time that Jeannette spent in the hospital was like a vacation from her crazy life and parents. She relished the time in the hospital because it…

“Sometimes, the surgical tech can even be hands-on with the patient,” Groinus says (Xu). Also said by Groinus, “Very often we have an opportunity to assist the surgeon by holding retractors and manipulating tissue,” she says, noting that surgical techs aren’t allowed to actually perform any portion of the surgery. The surgical techs are required to know the names of hundreds of medical instruments used throughout…

Cardiothoracic Surgeon Cardiothoracic surgeons, one of the only jobs that it required to cut people; and, well, legally. However, only not everyone has the skills to become a surgeon. Many people aim to be surgeons, however they cannot achieve that goal due to the fact that it is extremely difficult it is to complete the schooling and training required for the job. Surgeons requires a Doctorate degree in medicine, as well as a surgical internship and residency. They require certain traits such…

How bad are bad hair transplants? Bad hair transplants don’t happen too often, but when they do, you need to know what option you have. But, before any other details abut these options we should talk about bad hair transplants in general and what they can look like. Hair is one of the most important assets of a human, both men and women. The idea is this, as soon as you start losing your hair, there will be self esteem problems and you will not be the same person you used to be when you had a…