Providing care has always been at the forefront of my mind‚ and being an inquisitive thinker‚ a career in medicine allows me to integrate these features I excel at. I would enjoy translating theoretical knowledge to clinical practice. Life-long learning in a diverse and dynamic environment which no other career can offer suits my personality. I would find intellectually rewarding the assembly of all the jigsaw pieces together – history taking‚ applying cutting-edge scientific innovation to real-life
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Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii) Yerba Buena is an herb of the mint family. It is an aromatic plant used as herbal medicine worldwide. This perennial plant’s growth ranges from 0.6 meters to 1 meter. It has elongated leaves and in summers‚ it bears small whitish or purplish flowers. Such flowers possess both male and female organs that allow it to be pollinated by bees and animals of the same nature. The word Yerba Buena is Spanish for "good herb" and was the former name of the California
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Hippocrates Born: c.460 BC at Kos‚ Ancient Greece Died: c.370 BC at Larissa‚ Ancient Greece Hippocrates was an ancient Greek physician who was born around 460 BC on Cos‚ an Aegean island. Many consider him to be the “father of medicine” because he transformed the path of Greek medicine. He believed that diseases were caused by some type of natural action instead of being caused by the spirits or gods. His Early Life: Hippocrates was the son of Praxithea and Heracleides. His family’s wealth allowed him
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Alternative and Complementary Medicine which is also known as CAM. The paper will define Alternative and Complementary Medicine or CAM and compare it to conventional medicine. The main focus of the paper will be examining the different types of CAM. The types of CAM will be broken into five different groups which are : Whole or Alternative Medical Systems‚ Mind-Body Medicine‚ Biologically Based Practices‚ Manipulative and Body-Based Practices‚ and Energy Medicine. The reader will read about
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under the Care Standards Act 2000. This NMS legislation covers all the rights the service user to deal with their medication by themselves‚ if that is appropriate‚ and states who is then responsible for administrating them (with the regulation of Medicines Act 1968)‚ store‚ report‚ register etc‚ so basically‚ at my workplace on base of NMS‚ there are policies and work standards which tells how and who is responsible for medication to the residents‚ if they are not capable to administrate them. Person
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marks in high school has been instrumental in my acceptance to medical school. Graduating from the most well known Medical school in Iraq‚ the Faculty of Medicine‚ Anbar University‚ I was ranked the 6th out of 50 total graduates. What sparked my passion for family medicine is the fact that I am able to practice the entire spectrum of medicine in one same day and with all ages. Also the fact to being able to work in hospital and outpatient settings. Most important that by my nature I am a very social
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The civil war has changed modern medicine and it had such a big impact on the war. Even though our advanced medicine and much of our advanced equipment did not come directly from the 19th century‚ much of our mistakes came from there so got better in the modern century. Of the approximately 620‚000 soldiers who died in the war‚ two-thirds of these deaths were not the result of enemy fire‚ but of disease.While trying to fight the diseases and sickness while avoiding gunfire made for a deadly combo
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Medicine is a treatment‚ which was used to prevent illnesses and diseases of all kinds. Different types of diseases were dangerously life-threatening to majority of the victims. Before then‚ if a person happened to be ill‚ there was not a guaranteed cure to treat the disease at the time. In the late 1800s‚ medical cures such as patent or herbal medicines‚ were promoted and sold but did not provide the desired aid for the illness. In the 1920s‚ scientists and doctors researched and discovered treatments
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Should Choose Pet-Lock Flea Medicine Flea infestations are devastating and cause you sleepless nights. They are extremely stressful to deal with when they are not taken care of promptly. When many pet owners are faced with the challenge of flea infestations‚ they do not usually know exactly where to go. This is because there are many flea medicines available in the market today with varying opinions about them from the people that have used them. However‚ pet-lock medicine is different and stands out
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Practice of medicine is seen everywhere. The conventional worldview is the allopathic medical model to where after the onset of disease‚ the physician diagnoses and treats the condition. However‚ there is an opposing worldview‚ which I see myself as‚ and that is emphasizing prevention through exercise‚ nutrition‚ and self-care. It is the 21st century and the practice of medicine is so advanced‚ that people are forgetting the basic tools. For example‚ when people get a fever‚ they automatically take
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