Medicine

concrete personal connection to medicine. You are a perfect candidate for our program as it is seen through your motivation. You have grasped the concept of what success is; working diligently in your studies, volunteer work, shadowing experiences, and Research programs. When reading about your moment of despair, when trying to find the child’s leaking valve it captured who you truly are. You are not just student hopeful to get into our program, to one-day work in medicine. But you are a…

Growing up my interest in medicine came at a young age from going to various doctor’s appointments for myself and family members. I was always fascinated with how doctors took care of people. I enjoyed the interaction between the doctor and patient, whether it was a positive or negative interaction. From seeing that it made me want to be like them. But I didn’t fully consider a career in medicine until I began high school. While I was growing up , I didn’t have an ideal stable living situation…

While all forms of medicine help to treat the patient, osteopathic medicine takes the full person into account during treatment. Just like the doctor can’t help the family become accepting of the mother’s condition but, only help guide them on the healing journey; osteopathic medicine helps promote the body to self-heal. Every aspect of the patient’s life is considered during treatment consequently,…

and renewed journey, lead by the field of genomics. A personalized approach to medicine is now heralded as the new future of healthcare—a unique and defined way to move forward which will not only trim healthcare costs but also improve care by doing away with ineffective treatments. However, while these large scale benefits are yet-to-come, personalized medicine is slowly helping up make the stride from genes to medicines. The Stagnant Situation Of The Sick With a reputation of being duped as…

them have already presented in the medicine but at an early stage of development. The medicine evolved with the implementation of technologies during the industrial revolution and now in the time of the information society. Mavericks in medicine have always used new inventions for modifications and improvements of procedures. Therefore, many IT companies nowadays follow the same way by looking to the future and make attempts to implement their innovations in medicine. Some recent IT…

Regenerative Medicine is a new cutting edge technology in the health care world. Considering this, it has deemed a game changer in the everyday lives of many. The people who are suffering from conditions that can be beyond repair would benefit from this type of regenerative medicine. Stem Cell specific Regenerative Medicine has been drawing great attention, due to the positive outcomes of the use of stem cells in repairing bone, tissues, organs and much more. The goal is to point out and…

The advent of personalized medicine is moving us from a traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach, based on broad population averages, to a more precise health care that is customized for each individual patient. The sequencing of the human genome has initiated a genomic era of personalized medicine. Knowledge of patients genomic, gained through high through-put next generation sequencing (NGS) is offering opportunities for biological insights and clinical diagnostics. Advances in this field have…

it is truly unattainable, of what value is it? And I would argue- why should medical knowledge achieving an objective standard in medicine be subjected to criteria that ‘traditional’ objective truths fail? This raises the question of how should objectivity be defined and if it is, in fact, desirable. I would conclude that objectivity in desirable, and no less in medicine, as it offers physicians the correct guide to treating patients. Like scientific knowledge, physicians use ‘truths’ that have…

Women and Medicine Throughout history women have always been seen as not being equal to men. Men have been above women when it came to a point where women felt as though they should be given the right to do what they want to do and not fall into society’s norm. A big part of a breakthrough in women’s rights would have to be when women stepped u to the plate and started earning their medical degrees. Since the medical field was something men were only allowed to do besides women just staying…

Ethnic information can be an important source in the practice of medicine. It can be used to determine which disease is most common in different races. However, it should not be used to determine the treatment for certain groups of people. To understand the appropriate use of ethnicity in the practice of medicine it is important to understand the concept of race. There are people that think that humans can be grouped into different races while others cannot. Race is used in different…