Veterinary medicine

Out of all of the leading countries America has become one of the last to offer universal health care. Obamacare, which is the nickname for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), was approved in 2010 (Schacht, 2015). The last five years since Obamacare was created has shown how difficult it is to bring affordable health care into the U.S. I believe the idea of everyone having universal health care is an amazing concept and a human right; however as we have seen, can come with…

I was reading the newspaper the other morning when I came across your article, titled “Health and Wealth”. I couldn’t help but feel urged to contact you as I found your article failed to mention the many other links between social economic status and health care. Though the general ideology that those in the highest income quintiles tend to live longer as they have access to better health care services may be accurate, it is also extremely vague and doesn’t touch on the several other ties…

Although it can kill you, you can 't live without it. This is medical knowledge. Because the speed of science is progressively slow, each milestone in medical advances is substantial. Over the past decade, medicine has made great leaps and bounds. From bionic limbs, to stem cell research, medicine has definitely changed the lives of society for the better. Through research studies and newly discovered illnesses, we have greatly improved the life of mankind and the aspirations of our future…

Professor and Class, The Huston (2010) article depicted eight leadership competencies in her key note address that is extremely crucial for what lies ahead for the future of nursing. However, I find her speech quite impressive because this helps me to grasp many concepts of what is required to be a great nurse leader and to embrace myself for other new challenges. As an experienced critical care nurse, I found that all competencies are vital to me and the organization, clients, and staff and…

Unlike most people I hear that are in health science, I have not always known that I desired to be in the health science field. This may sound strange since I am applying to a health science school, but I now know that this is what I am most passionate about. When I started high school, we were presented with many PowerPoint’s, slideshows, and quizzes about what we should do when we got out of high school. Even with all these materials, I still was not sure about what I truly wanted to do. This…

affect the development, behavior, and psychological mindsets of diagnosed individuals in order to improve mental health and reduce major symptoms. This includes anxiety, depression, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and substance abuse (Behavioral Medicine). However, treatments are expensive and prescribed medications do not work for everyone. In fact, a study in 2005 revealed that the annual cost of illness for patients diagnosed with Attention-deficit hypertension disorder (ADHD) was between…

For instance the Greeks and Romans chewed the leaves of the willow tree for pain and other medical purposes this part of the willow tree later became the main component in aspirin. They also pioneered battlefield medicine and surgery as a whole. They would use a scalpel and sterilized it by putting them in boiling water. A Greek physician by the name of Galen was an instrumental key to the development of medical philosophy and anatomy. Galen was the physician that…

Throughout the progression of history, the influence of medicine has enabled people to create groundbreaking inventions, which have saved millions of lives. Without the technological advancements of medicine, the medical world would be completely different. This advancement has allowed the population to thrive in knowledge and also has been able to maintain the stability of human life under stressful, life threatening conditions. Since the beginning of time, the human population has attempted to…

The most rewarding part of nursing is to be able to help people as a career. However, it is not always as nice as it sounds to be. I was stroked with an event during my clinical rotation in the last year of my nursing school 1993 that influenced my decision making in my nursing career. A 7 year old boy was brought to ER who was a severe burning victim with no one inch of normal skin. The kid, coming from a very low income family, suffered from the burning accident in a concrete trash house came…

Based on a recent study, “57% of physicians practicing today have received a request for physician-assisted suicide in some form or another” (Back et al). The heated debate has been on whether patients possess the right to die via physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This assisted suicide is for the terminally ill who do not wish to continue their suffering due to their fatal conditions. The debate has very different points of view. One is that suicide should never be the answer despite health…