Pre-medical

In the early days of athletic training, it wasn’t that hard to become an “athletic trainer”. Trainers in the early days were basically volunteers. They didn’t have any type of training or certification to be doing that job. Up until 2003, a person would only need certification through NATA curriculum or an internship. In the internship route, a person wanting to be an athletic trainer would take various classes and courses like personal health, human anatomy, basic athletic training, and first…

Medical Animal Testing People have their own beliefs as to whether medical animal testing is beneficial or not. Animal testing is a sensitive subject for most people and they automatically disagree with it because of the inhumane way they treat animals. One problem is that animal testing in many people’s eyes is not ethically right. Scientists test on animals and inject them with the infection to try to find a cure for the disease. If the scientists inject two rats with the same disease and…

Although human genetic engineering is an innovative process, Leslie Pray and Danielle Simmons provide sufficient evidence to justify the limits that should be placed on these types of medical…

Euthanasia has first been introduced during the time period of the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. Many physicians have supported the thought of a quick and easy death instead of having the patient suffer an illness. Although physicians in this time period are supposed to follow the Hippocratic Oath,- an oath written by Hippocrates to treat the ill to the best of their ability, to give a patient their privacy, to teach their secrets of medicine to the future generations, and to forbid from…

empathy and being shown that their values, choices, and needs are being taken care of. This is known as the quality way to end-of-life-care. This is a physician-assisted death; however, it differs from the term euthanasia. This meaning that medicine is given by a doctor, after a rigorous process, to a patient where the medication is self-administered at the time when a patient feels that it is necessary. The physician does not administer the medication; therefore, different from euthanasia. As…

The Tarasoff Case Study When an individual suffering from a mental illness threatens to harm another, who should be extended the right of protection: the one making the threat or the potential victim? To answer this question, it is essential to understand the Tarasoff Case, the arguments for both the rights of the mentally ill as well as the potential victim, and how various religions view this ethical question. In August 1969, Prosenjit Poddar sought mental health treatment at Cowell…

Radiology and Sonography are two very important cornerstones in the medical field. The two both have a lot of similarities and a lot of differences that are unknown to students wanting to pursue a career in either. They both require mostly the same schooling, however you have to learn the different job practices of each. Whereas both help diagnose, students interested in this field need to understand the skills utilized because Radiology and Sonography both require different techniques. For…

Elvis Presley’s Death: Real or Fake? Would the family of a celebrity truly lie about a celebrity's death regardless of how many fans they have? Will they have the press in on their lies if they do? On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion at the age of 42. He was pronounced dead after arriving to a nearby hospital. Although all sources give information on this death, many believe that Elvis faked his death instead of actually being dead.…

Parties: Jerry Strunk (Appellant/Respondent) v. Ava Strunk (Appellee/Petitioner) Facts: Jerry Strunk, an incompetent ward of the state, has an IQ of approximately 35 and is in a state institution for the feeble-minded. He also has a speech defect that makes it difficult to communicate with people he is not close to. Jerry Strunk’s brother, Tommy Strunk, has a fatal kidney disease and will not survive much longer without a transplant. Jerry is a highly acceptable donor. Ava, the boys’ mother,…

The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) is an organization that was formed in the 1990’s in an effort to end animal testing for the purpose of cosmetics. The ECEAE is the leading group in Europe which helps EU officials intersect laboratories. This article was written to expose the truth of what exactly goes on in animal testing laboratories and to explain that there are alternatives out there that will be of more benefit to society, both economically and physically. This…