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…
Target level(s) of analysis: The target level of analysis for stress and wellness interventions is within the organization. Companies first were using wellness programs in order to motivate their employees to have healthier lifestyles. This was used as a benefit for the company by reducing sick days and increasing productivity of their employees. However, employers have recently realized that those are not the only benefits associated with wellness programs. Companies are now realizing that a…
person can purchase an organ. Criteria two is trying to examine the morale of a surgeon and medical staff if they are willing to accept payment to extract healthy organs from individuals. Are ready to disregard Hippocratic Oath the disrespecting of medicine and the skills that it takes to be involved in the medical field at any…
Patients trust physicians that understand and can simplistically explain the convoluted diseases they diagnose. The past summer I had the privilege of researching the influenza virus in the Huber lab at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. I remember being utterly clueless the first two weeks in the lab. Feeling embarrassed, I studied immunology textbooks and read manuscripts in order to verse myself in the current models surrounding influenza virus infection. Through my…
What exposure have you had to osteopathic medicine? 500 words My first exposure to osteopathic medicine came when I sat down to interview Dr. Andrew Barnosky, an Emergency Physician at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. I then shadowed Dr. Nina Censoplano for a morning round at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at C.S. Mott Children 's Hospital. As I developed an interest in emergency medicine, I shadowed Dr. Ken Bishop for nineteen hours in the Emergency Department at the…
The health of a person is affected by a number of combined factors. Whether individuals are healthy or not, health care is determined by the environment and the surrounding circumstances. The level of health care within a society is majorly determined by the physical environment, socioeconomic aspects, the behaviors and characteristics of an individual. Conversely, the Affordable Care Act seems to be the basic solution for Americans as it gives the citizens the right of getting health care…