to success. In a similar manner‚ internal medicine will give me the opportunity to empower my patients to be in control of their health. I am certain that I would not be satisfied with the pursuit of anything other than internal medicine as a career when skills I have acquired during my clinical training could have a much more visceral application in understanding and alleviating real distress experienced by people daily. As my interest in internal medicine was deepening‚ I better understood the applications
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“Hey‚ how did you get here?” that was a confusing question posed by a nineteen-year-old Hispanic patient with abdominal pain. This interaction occurred during the first week of my third-year internal medicine clerkship. Since he was starting a community college‚ he was unaware of the process of becoming a doctor. The patient wanted to understand how I became a medical student. I responded by stressing the importance of volunteering‚ attending a competitive school‚ and taking the MCAT. As the clerkship
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The development of medicines derives from different parts of the world‚ thousands of years ago. There were known to be 5 civilisations that introduced the treatment‚ diagnosis and prevention. Majority of conventional medicine have originated from Egyptian medicine‚ Ancient Greek medicine‚ Roman medicine‚ Medieval medicine. Egyptian medicine The Egyptian’s were the first civilisation for the introduction of medical care. Their beleifs consisted of thoughts that spirits caused illness‚ they explored
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Medicine in the Civil War During the Civil War medical practice was in one of its earliest stages. This meant that medicine was not well practiced‚ things were not sterile‚ and doctors and nurses were not knowledgeable enough for the task at hand. Two thirds of men in the war died from disease rather than gunshots or weapon related injuries. The conditions were very unsanitary‚ and men often became sick just because of their living conditions. There was poor hygiene in camps‚ a lack of quality
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around the world improved of medicine is a top priority means to a better quality of life. Over the last fifteen years tissue engineering has advanced and offering the potential to generate nearly all tissues and organs of human body. Nanomedicine first has taken the start in 1995 and was called liposomal doxorubicin. It was first used as a treatment for a cancer. Doxorubicin often has been associated such as cancer drug since 1960 but today it ’s called nanomedicine. Nowadays there are various types
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease."~-Voltaire Aromatherapy has become a very popular and over commercialized word‚ but what is really meant by the term “aromatherapy?” (And no it ’s not Febreze®) Authentic Aromatherapy is a comprehensive healthcare modality that utilizes therapeutic plant extracts called “essential oils” to evoke the body’s own intrinsic healing power. (Thanks to a great Hydrotherapy teacher who taught me this) Essential
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Charlie’s doctors act ethically when they performed the brain surgery on Charlie? Gordon’s doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. Charlie’s doctors didn’t ask themselves some of the questions in "Ethics in Medicine". If Gordon’s doctors didn’t ask themselves these question and did not act upon them‚ then that shows why the doctors didn’t act ethically. One of the question that was asked was that
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Medicine in Colonial America Medicine in Colonial America was much different from today‚ but gave us a lot of insight in the human body’s needs. Due to lack of education‚ experience‚ proper tools‚ and hygiene‚ many patients died. However‚ there were also many people who were saved through the medical procedures and lived full and healthy lives. Few doctors in Colonial America actually received a formal education through a medical school‚ because there was really only one school: the Pennsylvania
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even better results?” This is especially true with physicians who are only involved in direct patient care and make most of their decisions off evidence-based medicine due to the fact that their decisions directly influence health outcomes. Engaging in medicine that does not have strong evidence backing it rather than evidence-based medicine may result in better outcomes but also risk the chance of failure and lawsuits. Therefore‚ this is a path most physicians are too risk averse to take. Clinical
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much of Europe; all classes of society were hoping to survive‚ so they turned to the physicians. Many practitioners were inexperienced and had not attended university‚ and those who had attended medical university tended to the upper class first. Medicine was very basic during the Elizabethan Era‚ and practitioners lacked the knowledge and
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