Medicine

Roman medicine is a topic on which much has been written. Ideas have changed over time and as new ideas emerge and new artifacts are discovered in Rome. As ideas change and new works are published, readers must consider that impact on earlier published works and the context of the works in which they read. As such, works can be read in the context of an established ideal and analyzed from that viewpoint. The established ideal to which the following works are to be analyzed through, is that of…

system (Eggleston, 2012). Where the government is the biggest player in the health care system where they have a hand in everything from the insurance to distribution of the medical resources. China’s also has a very long and rich history in cultural medicine, some health and some not so healthy. When it comes to the structure and role of the major health systems in China the government is behind both. China is a communist country and over the last eight years has gone more to a socialized…

Nuclear Medicine exams. Most patients are very scared when they are sent for a Nuclear Medicine exam because they do not know what’s going on. They are also scared because they are experiencing some health problems, and they do not know what they are. As a Nuclear Medicine Technologist it is very important to inform the patient on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. This will reduce the patient’s anxiety and fear of the test. When patients hear that they are going to the Nuclear Medicine…

I originally began my pursuit of medicine because of my interest in the sciences. As I explored various fields from psychology to public health, I found myself drawn to working with local hospitals. Following a few months of volunteering at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, my first experience witnessing the birth of a child significantly impacted my decision to pursue medicine. It was a quiet Thursday night, but the Labor and Delivery unit was bright. Working with the nurse to prepare for an…

It has been truly said that medicine was conceived in sympathy and born out of necessity and that the first doctor was the first man, and the first woman, the first nurse. The prehistoric man, motivated by feelings of sympathy and kindness, was always at the behest of his kindred, trying to provide relief, in times of sickness and suffering. As a logical sequence, the medicine he practised consisted in appeasing gods by prayers, rituals and sacrifices, driving out “evil spirits” from the human…

Introduction The transition of women into medicine, commonly referred to as the feminization of medicine, began with Elizabeth Blackwell who in 1849, was the was the first woman to earn a medical degree also making her the first officially recognized female physician in the United States (Biography.com Editors). Over time, the number of women in medicine has grown from 9.7 percent in 1970 to 47 percent in 2015 (Strasser) and this number is expected to continue rising. As remarkable as it is…

Relationship between religions and medicine As a strong driving force in ancient world, religion was playing a large part during the development of medicine in Greece and Rome. During the era of Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest known surgical papyrus in about 2000- 1600 BCE, the worship of gods was already affecting the medicine directly. As stated in case nine of the papyrus, while seeing a patient with an open trauma on forehead, specific incantations were called when applying specific recipe…

The Medicines Company is a newly formed firm that has interesting business model. Medicines Company acquires drugs that have been abandoned from other pharmaceutical companies due to lack of early state research results. Medicines Company’s success relies on their ability to save “rejected” compounds, receive FDA approval for their used, and to make a profit of the drug. This case study mainly focuses at the first years of this new startup company, mainly on the initial review of their first…

American medicine needs a dose of old-fashioned paternalism, something he might also appreciate. “Paternalism” is a hoary concept in medicine. It has nothing in particular to do with men and fathers except, of course, that it arose at a time when few physicians were women. An essay in the AMA Journal of Ethics several years ago defined it as “an action performed with the intent of promoting another’s good but occurring against the other’s will or without the other’s consent. In medicine, it…

would describe me as having a high level of resiliency and a caring heart, qualities I have acquired growing up within that environment. I intend to allow those qualities to propel me to the realization of my dream, which is practicing Osteopathic Medicine as a…