Residency

During the summer before I began my eight grade year of high school, I decided to read an old medical encyclopedia of my grandmother’s. Little did I know, I would read this book day after day, eventually leading to the discovery of my chosen career path. From that summer on I knew without a doubt that I wanted to become a doctor. I finished high school with great enthusiasm as I knew next fall I would begin my first collegiate steps to fulfill my dreams of becoming a physician at the only…

The Criteria For Accountability In A Wrongful Death Suit: Do You Have A Case? When you're dealing with a death, it's difficult to see beyond the pain of losing someone; however, if that death was wrongful, you have a limited time to pursue a case and many variables to consider. The following questions and answers should help you determine if you have a wrongful death case and how you should proceed. 1. How Do You Know If The Death Was "Wrongful"? Everyone dies, eventually, and since death is…

Errors That Killed Lewis Blackman Lewis Blackman was a fifteen-year-old boy in seventh grade. He was thought of by his peers as gifted, enthusiastic, brilliant, talented across the board, achieved many academic accomplishments at such a young age, had a great memory and was loved by all. Lewis was born with the condition of pectus excavatum, which causes a crease in the chest cavity. He has lived many years with this condition but decided to have elective surgery at the University of South…

Compare and Contrast In “Stolen Day” and “A Day’s Wait”, both stories have many ideas that are similar and different. For example, the main idea of “Stolen Day” is that a young boy, the narrator, is convinced that he has a disease bad enough to kill him called inflammatory rheumatism. Truth be said is that he did not have the disease in the first place, he just wanted some undivided attention from his family. Both of his parents both know that he doesn’t have the disease so they do not…

Professionalism is a critical aspect in medical practice and one of the basic expectations held by medical professionals and patients. To violate this is a serious offense because it causes disruptive behavior which upsets the harmony of the medical environment leading to lower morality in your colleagues, substandard quality of care and poor outcomes. Through my analysis and review of the topic, I am forced to look inside myself and consider my past behavior, re-evaluate my goals and explore…

Step 1: Review the ED physician record. Note presenting signs and symptoms, lab values, medical history, and the ED physician’s impression, as well as the reason why the patient is being admitted. Note any diagnostics or procedures performed in the ED. Don’t forget this part of the admission, because you might be using the ED record as the basis for an attending query, such as acute respiratory failure for a dyspneic patient intubated in the ED. Step 2: Look for the physician’s document of the…

Please answer the question in 350 words or less. Why are you interested in attending the University of Virginia School of Medicine? What factors will be most important to you in choosing a medical school? University of Virginia’s reputation as a forerunner in medical education and research with values such as excellence and leadership make it an ideal match for an engaged, driven student like myself. As an undergraduate, I gained invaluable hands-on clinical experience working in the University…

The profession of nursing requires an individual to adhere to a set of ethics to guide deliberation and action while caring for patients. As stated by Burkhardt and Nathaniel, “codes of nursing ethics explicitly state that respect for persons is a cornerstone of professional ethics” (pg. 59). Along with respect for persons, there must also be principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, veracity, confidentiality, justice and fidelity followed when practicing as a professional nurse…

“If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled”. This was Elizabeth Blackwell’s reasoning. Elizabeth Blackwell is known as the first woman to get a medical degree. She wanted all women to have equal rights like men. Elizabeth impacted the citizens of the United States of America because she was the first woman in the United States to get a medical degree, she was a teacher and a lecturer, and she trained nurses for the civil war. Elizabeth Blackwell was…

According to Yusuf (2010) “One of the debates that hospitals engage in is whether to have an open or closed ICU. The facility at which I currently practice has been having ongoing discussions with regard to this very issue. We have a very good intensive care unit for a moderate sized community Hospital of 200 beds. Up to about 2 years ago we had an open intensive care unit. We also had a large amount of primary care physicians admitting to the hospital and the intensive care unit We were…