Women physicians

I sit on the porch of my glass house watching the sunset disappear into the waterfall, thinking to myself. All of the struggles and the hardship has come down to this point in time where I can be still. I can hear little children playing with a man who they called Dad. Life has become blissful with occasional thunderstorms. All my life I have dreamt of this and I can finally say I am happy. During my lifetime I had to endure difficult times and obstacles but with the support of my family and…

She is the one who looks to make her comfortable and talks to her. When Vivian tries to express her growing fears about her death to one of her physicians, he asks if he should order a test. When she talks about it with Susie, the nurse comforts her and lets her cry. She also discusses her end of life options, introducing the bias of the doctors, She talks to Vivian about her code status and explains…

The Ethics of Relationships between Physicians and Pharmaceuticals Valencia Cave, Holly Costanzo, Sean McCart, Josh Mosholder Towson University Dr. Michael Kim is new to the profession of being a doctor. He is a hard working pediatrician with the health of his patients at the front of his mind. But when a pharmaceutical company, Apativ, come to him with a new drug, Paxaflora, that could save a patient’s life (yet has possible side effects), he is at an impasse. The pharmaceutical gives him gifts…

Three of us visited Michiana Behavioral Health Center or MBHC in Plymouth. Locating a facility proved an easy process but receiving an interview took more time. The facility lacks efficiency in returning phone calls. The Clinical Director, Kim and a staff member, Ron obtained their Masters in Social Work or MSW and Licensed Clinical Social Worker or LCSW among more licenses. The clinical director stated that she supervised programs, activities, and education. She informed us about a…

In our western communities, statistics have been offered which account for one person in four dying of cancer and one in four of heart disease. If these figures are accurate, the other half of our population is left to account for all the kidney failures, contagious diseases, arthritis, respiratory problems and other innumerable diseases suffered by so many. To this, we must add the deaths from accidents and now the horrifying forecasts that another one in four of the total population is…

Throughout my life, learning more about the medical field has consistently secured my decision to pursue this path. Initially, my mother sparked my interests. After immigrating to the United States and passing her Nurse-Licensing Exam, she has worked as a Registered Nurse for over 20 years, exposing me to the medical field at an early age. She would often tell me, “The most important aspect of my job is helping my patients by advocating for their individual needs.” The compassion she displays…

Case Study: Enjoy Your Life 1. Why do you think health care providers often struggle in the transition from provider to patient? What might prevent them from seeking out care? Since Christiane is a well-educated clinician and works in the emergency room. She is familiar with reporting diagnoses and bad outcomes to patients. She also provides discharge instructions to the patients telling them the importance of following up on their lab draws and office visits. Although she expresses the…

I have been a nurse at the University of Michigan hospital for eleven years. Currently, I work in the psychiatric emergency department. Our patients’ ages range from toddlers to adults. Some of the frequent diagnoses we see are: bipolar disorder, suicidality, psychosis, anxiety, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. These patients can be very challenging and often have complex medical comorbidities such as cancer, diabetes, cardiac problems, and other medical problems. My job is to…

“I need the chest tube try now and where is my blood?” was the first thing I heard when I entered the emergency room on a late Saturday night. The patient came in coding after being shot five times by police and upon arrival the staff immediately jumped in to try and save his life. I watched mesmerized as the resident opened up his chest in order to get control of the bleeding. Even though the procedure was unsuccessful and the patient eventually expired, it was a great learning experience for…

sat up on the sofa to eat some soup that my mother had made. When suddenly, I was on the carpet of the living room in our house. I had fainted. I was lying next to noodles from the soup on the floor. Despite calling the oral surgeon and our family physician, it was not known what had made me lose consciousness. To this day, I do not know what made me faint. What I do know is that after completely recuperating from the procedure, my jaw and teeth no longer hurt. The oral surgeon had alleviated…