Socialized medicine

never thought I would regret. I completed my General Psychiatry residency training at University of Hawaii and decided to go into Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship because of my special affinity with elderly and my interest in the integration of both Medicine and Psychiatry was appealing to my intellectual challenge. Since I complete my training, I have been practicing in varieties of setting. To satisfy my Visa requirement, I spent 3 years working with the chronically mentally ill homeless…

Fallon and McConnell (2007), state that line activities include performing the organization’s work while staff activities facilitate said work with a general focus in efficiency and effectiveness. The healthcare industry is no different and requires both types of employees to function at a highly effective and efficient rate. When looking at different line activities and staff activities one of the most important departments in a hospitals support network is Risk Management. According to…

Family and Medical Leave Wills Incorporated provide twelve weeks of unpaid leave of absence in a twelve month/one year period for the birth and first year childcare, the adoption or foster placement of a child, the care of an immediate family member or parent with a serious health condition, or an employee with a serious medical condition. Definitions Twelve-month period is a continuous 12-month period measured from the date an employee uses any Family and Medical Leave. Child is a biological,…

One beautiful, sunny day in late fall when the leaves were changing colors and there was a little chill in the air, my sister and I were in her jeep with our mom scouring the area for sales. Tonya, my sister, treated us to Hardees biscuits to eat while on our search. We were all excited about different items we purchased from the various sales. The day was feeling like another normal day to look for yard sales with my family. As I stared out the window, thoughts of the peaceful day flooded my…

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) is an acute care facility located in Colton, California. The facility provides a full range of acute and psychiatric services, inpatient, and outpatient services and is also a teaching hospital. The medical center has three off site primary care clinics, which are the extensions of the outpatient services. The hospital houses multitude of services, which consist of: acute care hospital, outpatient (ambulatory) services, behavioral health and diagnostic…

The Williamsport Regional Medical Center is located in the 700 block of High Street between Campbell and Walnut Street. The hospital was originally named the Williamsport Hospital and it opened in April of 1878. It was originally located on Elmira St and was initially used as a boardinghouse. Several years later a new building was built and the hospital was moved to its present location. Although it has undergone a huge transformation and a name change the original part of the Williamsport…

my full potential. Though reasonable, I realize that many people never actually reach these aspirations due to their inability to uncover what they are truly passionate about. I have been lucky enough to discover what my passion is which is medicine. Medicine gives me the opportunity to right the wrongs of my past by leveling the playing field for healthcare consumers.…

Canada (CIA World Factbook, 2014). In fact, it appears one of the major factors that reduces life expectancy and causes death in the US is cardiovascular disease (John Hopkins Medicine, 2014). CVD in the US causes a total of more deaths than cancer, accidents, and chronic respiratory diseases combined (John Hopkins Medicine, 2014). The aim of this essay is to highlight the presence and…

to heal any ailment. When Europeans began trading with and bringing Western influence to China, medicine was one of the last areas to change. Many Chinese people were reluctant to take part in Western medicine due to the vast differences between Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine and strength of tradition, as traditional medicine had been passed down for generations. However, Chinese medicine underwent a long period of modernization from the late Qing Empire into early Republican China.…

This paper will depict the overall evaluation of the MPH 602 course at the Benedictine University. The paper will demonstrate that the 13 foundational competencies of the Masters of Public Program has been emphasized during the eight week course. Additionally, I will list all the 13 foundational competencies in the first part of this paper. .A brief explanation of what I have learned and how I have acquired all thirteen competencies through the research i have done about the various…