Essays on Physician

In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews a number of doctors who have very specific ideas on cancer treatment and prevention – namely, that radiation, chemotherapy, and mammography do not work, and can actually cause more harm than good. They then proceed to offer their own alternatives, usually from their own field of medicine, which they claim are much better solutions for preventing and treating cancer. Somers then goes on to detail her own experiences working with doctors in the face of a misdiagnosis of cancer, and how that led her to seek alternative treatments and preventative measures. Upon reading this book, I ...

Question # 1

Describe a clinical case you have observed where there has been a multi-disciplinary approach to discharge planning. Describe how the interactions between the multi-disciplinary team impacted on the quality of the patient’s care. What have you learned from this experience about effective multi-disciplinary team working and how will you put this into practice as a foundation doctor?

Answer #1

While I was on rotation at a spinal cord injury unit, I came across a patient asking for an early discharge due to a personal commitment, despite an unfinished rehabilitation program, active bacterial gastroenteritis and a healing foot ulcer. I immediately took action, made notes and discussed ...

Hospital Acquired Infections A hospital acquired infection is an infection that is acquired by a patient while receiving treatment in hospital. The patient was admitted in hospital for the treatment of a different disease however on being discharged it is discovered he has acquired an infection during his stay. These infections are known as nosocomial infections. Researchers released a report that stated that hospital acquired infections killed 48,000 people every year. Sepsis and Pneumonia were found to be the most common infections. The hospital discharge records of forty states were examined in the period 1998 and 2006 showing the infections cost $ ...

Blood Transfusion

Blood transfusion is the safe process of transferring blood from a donor to a recipient. Blood recipients are patients of various diseases and injuries who require blood to save their lives. The process is done to replace the lost blood during surgery, due to injuries or due to other complications and diseases, which render the body mechanism unable to make blood cells. In fact, about 90 million people around the world are in need of blood every year, while only about less than 12 million people are willing to donate blood each year (Pan American Health Organization, 2009). In the United ...

Inpatients can defined as the patients who are confined in an institution like a hospital or a nursing home for a temporary basis and where they stay overnight. An Inpatient admission begins when a hospital formally accepts a patient who is to be given health care services while being accommodated at the facility. When it comes to inpatient admissions, it is the responsibility of the physician who is admitting to determine those patients to be admitted in the hospital and ensure that the admitted person is monitored by hospital staff to ensure that there is proper documentation (Scott, 2006). The Centers for Medicare ...

Physician Reference Service (PRS) is a company that does not recognize business ethics; but if it does, then it deliberately engages in unethical activities for the sake of its selfish gains. In business, brand piracy is highly unethical. Counterfeit goods are another sign of lack of ethics. Business ethics do not even allow for deceptive advertising, and neither does it allow for any act that might mislead the consumers including copying of the packaging style and name.

Again, a company that engages in immoral practices in competitor intelligence and market research highly lacks business ethics.

In spite of knowing all these, the Physician Reference Service (PRS) goes ahead and sells a product substitute before the competitor releases the original ...

If one takes a precise look at all the professions he/ she will definitely notice that they are all intertwined with each other in one way or another. Undoubtedly, each and every profession is unique in its own way; every profession requires certain skills and knowledge, as well as strength, patience or resilience. First and foremost, it should be stated that almost all the jobs require communication with people, and even such professions as a medical employee and a baker, being absolutely different at the first glance, are very similar at the same time. At the moment, being a student, I am ...

Question 1: In some developing countries, antibiotics can be purchased without a prescription. Why do you think this is done? What biological consequences would you predict?

Developing countries have a very weak drug regulation system, characterized with low number of physicians per person. Often, one physician has to attend to a large number of patients, and usually some communities live in places where physicians are rare and hospitals are not easily accessible. In addition, the fees charged for just seeing a physician is quite high for moist people to afford. The government thus allows the sale of some antibiotics in shops and chemist ...

Introduction:

At least for once in life, everyone has had a chance to deal with some kind of health complications. Some have had to deal with diseases like heart attack, malaria, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, cold, pneumonia and many more. Majority of the people do not even know that they have issues concerning their health until may be, something which brings those complications to their attention happens to them. Nutritional complications are caused by the types of food people eat. A good example of nutrition complication is obesity. This paper analyzes and explores obesity as a health nutritional complication, its goals ...

I clearly remember the very moment I realized what I would like to devote my life to; the moment, which shocked not only me, but my whole family; the moment when we realized that the life of my brother was at stake. It happened in the middle of the night, when my deep and quiet sleep was interrupted by the tender but at the same time concerned voice of my younger sister Angela. She shocked my body lightly as she whispered these heart wrenching words: "Wake up!! Wake up! Something is wrong with Christopher". The next vague moment I ...

Introduction

To begin with, code of ethics for nurses can be contented as being one of the universally and globally agreed set of laws and rules that are internationally applicable to all nurses all over the world. Basically, nurses can be debated as having four significant and essential responsibilities and duties in the medical field: First, they are responsible to ensure that patients, families and communities remain in healthy conditions all the time irrespective of color, age, locality, gender, political background, physical disability, nationality, sex and tribe. In addition, nurses are expected to prevent, avert and obviate illness, sickness, disease ...

A better tomorrow is the aspiration for every person, a life full of happiness, joy and greater peace is something one cannot do away with. The field of medicine is very exciting as it offers one an opportunity to interact with people across diverse cultural settings. I acknowledge my parents for giving me a chance to learn and become proficient and a master of two critical languages: English and Spanish that have later integrated my interactive skills. The exposure and experience with my personal friends and family has proved that I am a motivational speaker, giving hope to many and encouraging them to ...