On Thursday November 2, 2000, 15 year old Lewis Blackman checked into Medical University of South Carolina Children 's Hospital (MUSC) in Charleston for elective surgery on his pectus excavatum, a congenital deformity of the anterior chest (Monk, 2002). Due to issues with insurance coverage, a year had elapsed since Lewis and his parents’ last appointment with the surgeons; however, the office had not required another evaluation prior to his surgical date (Kumar, 2008). During the pre-operative intake process a nurse asked Lewis how much he weighed instead of performing an actual measurement (Kumar, 2008). After insisting on a current value Helen discovered that his weight was 120 pounds, less than he had admitted to (Kumar, 2008; Monk, 2002). While Lewis was in surgery, his family became increasingly worried when the estimated surgical time elapsed without word (Kumar, 2008). Dr. Tagge, the lead surgeon, finally updated the family over two and a half hours later stating that Lewis did well even though he had to reposition the metal bar four times for correct placement (Kumar, 2008; Monk, 2002). Helen reported wondering if Dr. Tagge had realized how much Lewis’ chest depression had deepened since he last saw him a year ago in the office, especially considering he did not lay eyes on Lewis until he was under anesthesia…
Michael Debakey was a famous American cardiovascular surgeon, medical educator, and scientist. He was born on September 7, 1908 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and died on July 11, 2008, in Houston, Texas. Debakey attended Tulane University in New Orleans where he received his Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1932 he received an M.D. degree from the Tulane University school of Medicine. After completing his surgical fellowships at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Heidelberg, Debakey returned back to Tulane where he served on the surgical faculty from 1937 to 1948. From 1942 to 1946, he served in World War II where he helped to revolutionize wartime medicine by supporting the doctors closer to the front lines. This improved the survival rate of countless wounded U.S soldiers and resulted in the great development of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital units in the Korean War.…
The poem is more likely about Chemistry. Specifically, it speaks about a nuclear weapon, an atomic bomb. The stanzas talk about the process of how the atomic bomb destroys the things it possesses, but this is only if take it in literal meaning. We have to look further than science, enhancing one’s observation and relating to emotions.…
Today, surgery is one of the front runners in the medical world for performed practices. However, surgery isn't a modern day miracle. Surgeries have been taking place for centuries, and at the head of those surgeries are trepanation and craniotomies. In fact, the oldest surgical techniques known to be used by primitive people are those techniques used to cut holes into the cranium. Early trepanation and craniotomies were mainly performed by abrasion, scraping, crosscut sawing and drilling techniques. Knowledge like this is in high demand as we try to make new leaps into medicine. Many accomplishments of the present come with an understanding and knowledge of the past, and while that is not the focus of this paper, it is an acknowledged contribution.…
The person to read Galen’s book On Anatomical Procedures, a book about his surgical findings, was Andreas Vesalius. Upon reading this book, Vesalius decided to do his own dissections to see just how true Galen’s observations had been. He had been granted a job as a surgeon in 1573 right after medical school at just 23 years old. As Galen had only used animals as his source of dissection, Vesalius found that Galen was wrong about anatomy in many occasions. One of these incidences occurred because Galen said the great blood vessels come from the liver. Vesalius found this was not true during his own dissections, because the great blood vessels really originated at the heart. He was able to show that the lower jaw was in one piece, not two.…
A pediatric pulmonologist assist in the care of children with respiratory problems. They help diagnose and manage lung diseases such as asthma, bronchiecstasies, pneumonia, and chronic bronchitis ”what does a pediatric pulmonologist do”. Pediatric pulmonologist developed in North America, beginning in the 20th century. What sparked the beginning of this was when a history of lung diseases affected children "pediatric pulmonology". In the mid 1940s the study of tuberculosis was the rudimentary beginning of one branch of pediatric pulmonology, pediatric pulmonology became an increasingly important area in 1982. R.B. Mellins was the first pediatric pulmonologist to serve as the president of the American Thoracic Society…
His schooling had been minimal at a young age, in large part because of his poor health. In time, his chronic abdominal pains had been diagnosed as urinary stones. James’ father sent him to Philadelphia in the fall of 1812, to receive care from Dr. Philip Syng, later titled “The Father of American Surgery.”…
Both Sources D and E are useful to the historian who is investigating surgical practice in the 1870s, however only to a certain extent because both sources explain a few of the negatives and positives of surgical practice. In source D, it says that ‘it took too long to keep washing everything’ and how people who would think of new ideas in surgical practice were often regarded as ‘odd’. This evidence shows us that surgical practice at the time may have been a more negative experience rather than a positive one. Source E, on the other hand, talks a little less broadly about surgical practice as it explains, like source D, ‘infection was as common as ever’ and talks about the transitions from one operating theatre to the next.…
DeLamar, L.(2007) ‘ Anaesthesia’ in Rothrock J (ed) Alexander’s care of the patient in surgery. 13th edn. Missouri: Mosby. Pp.120 – 122.…
One way to learn more about how an object was created and functions is to take the object apart. Similar to scientists performing anatomical dissections to learn about how an animal or plant functions, engineers perform mechanical dissections on objects and mechanisms to better understand how they were made and how they work. Objects are carefully taken apart with close observationand documentation during each step of the dissection.…
Hindle, K. S., & Hindle, S. J. (2001). A history of surgery. Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain).Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 94(8), 423. Retrieved from http://search.pr…
Develop a pamphlet to inform parents and caregivers about environmental factors that can affect the health of infants.…
Taking care of newborns, living daily checkups, and dealing with depressed teenagers are all in a day’s job for a pediatrician. Pediatricians, a doctor that specializes with in the diagnosis and treatment of minors from birth to twenty-one years of age, has a hectic but rewarding job. It takes only not only good grades but also extreme dedication to succeed in this medical field. There are many different types of pediatricians and finding the right one is essential. Overall, life as a pediatric doctor is right for some people and it may be you.…
Pediatric oncologists are medical professionals who specialize with the diagnosis and treatment of cancers that occur during childhood. These professionals have an advanced education, training and experience that allow them to thoroughly understand how cancers affect children in a different way than adults do. They are responsible in managing, diagnosing and treating a wide variety of cancers that occur in children such as cancer of the blood or leukemia. Pediatric oncologists are well-trained in various oncology procedures such as biopsies, surgeries and tumor or cysts removal. It may also involve relieving adverse effects of different cancer treatment and treating signs and symptoms of cancer that is experienced by the patient (Pediatric Oncologist Job…
Ernest Amory Codman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 30, 1869.odman was a pioneer in many different fields including contributions to anaesthesiology, radiology, duodenal ulcer surgery, orthopaedic oncology, shoulder surgery, and the study of medical outcomes. Codman entered Harvard College in 1887, graduated cum laude in 1891 and subsequently entered Harvard Medical School. During his time there, he met and became best friends with Harvey Cushing, the famous neurosurgeon. While he finished his studies in 1894, he spent his last year as an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital and graduated in 1895. He subsequently obtained the position of Assistant in Anatomy at MGH and was apprenticed to Francis Harrington, the Chief of the Surgical Services he was an advocate of hospital reform and is the acknowledged founder of what today is known as outcomes management in patient care. Codman was the first American doctor to follow the progress of patients through their recoveries in a systematic manner. Codman kept close track of all of his patients by using "End Result Cards" which contained basic demographic data on every patient treated along with the diagnosis and the treatment he rendered. Also the outcomes of each case were closely logged. All patients were followed up on for at least one year, to observe the long-term outcomes of treatment. This lifelong pursuit to establish an end results system, lead Codman to track the outcomes of patient treatments. This passion, also lead him to use this tracking as an opportunity to identify clinical mistakes, bad treatment, and to serve as the foundation for improving the healthcare of future patients. Codman also believed that all of this information should be made public so that patients could be guided toward good healthcare in their choices of physicians and hospitals. To spite this, in 1914 the hospital refused his plan to evaluate surgeon competence and he lost his staff…