Belkin Reflection On Care

The career I am curious about is in the medical field, generally speaking, nursing. I have chosen to become a registered nurse because of its background, and how its characteristics require the use of creativity, problem-solving, social skills, and critical thinking. Registered nurses use various skills to diagnose and apply certain care methods to specific patients. I know that nurses aid patients with various illnesses, diseases, disabilities, and injuries. I love helping people and the feeling I receive when helping people. It would also be very motivating to learn and discover things about the human body and how to fix any problems involving it.

A physician, just like the healers of the past, are concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Similarities still exist in that the medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic science based disciplines underlying diseases and their treatment – the science of medicine – and also a decent competence in its applied practice – the art or craft of medicine.

In Atul Gawande's mind blowing speech about doctors dramatically improving their practices using something as simple as a checklist. Dr. Gawande gives many thoughts and ideas concerning experience from history to show the audience that doctors and medical practices have changed a lot over history. Doctors also have had many setbacks and many things that should be changed to further improve their practices. Dr. Gawande begins by explaining how medicine first started and how many patients were incorrectly being diagnosed and cared for. He opens the idea that medicine has changed a lot throughout the beginning of time. Also, currently doctors still have a lot of challenges they face in modern medicine. He explains the first diagnosis of medicine and the early times in treating patients. He explains that medicine has come a long way now having over 6000 drugs that can be prescribed. He explains how much society has come together to study and look at Health Care. By the end of the 20th-century 15 doctors were needed in the operating room to serve a patient with the exact same problem 20 years ago. Gawande uses the word specialists a lot as a primary focus to show that not everybody is a doctor but a specialist in their own area. Gawande then opens a big a topic on how 40% of disease patients receive incomplete or inappropriate care. And at the same time, surgeries cost insane amounts nowadays then past prices. Now in his speech, he introduces the term pit crew this sets up the

I have always been interested in the medical field. My father is a physiotherapist and my mother has a bachelorette in Microbiology and is a laboratory technologist. I have grown up having science-themed discussions around the dinner table and books lying around the house. With the experience of my parents at their respected professions, I did not have the feeling that these paths were the correct fit for me. I liked the hands on side of physiotherapy but I wanted something more technology related. I searched the medical field for a career that combined my fascination for both human science and technology in addition to being able to interact with patients. My research on Radiation Therapy instantly established a thought that this is a career

Despite his lack of a medical license or ability to practice medicine, everyone goes to him when they need help. They do not have the luxury of finding a real doctor or going to an actual hospital, so they full-heartedly accept what is available to them without question. Accepting what is available without question is a common theme seen throughout the story.

A patient is a human being. Illness disturbs biological, social, psychological elements that make the patient human. It is not enough to centre and diagnoses and decisions on scientific data and empirical fact; medicine is about much more. The focus of this paper is to make the argument that the practice of medicine is a discipline that requires human empathy as well as scientific data and empirical fact to establish diagnoses with emphasis on five components of the physician-patient relationship: patient’s experience of illness, physician-patient communication, and proficiency of end of life care, medical ethics and spiritual growth. This position will be supported through the film “Wit (Nichols & Brokaw, 2002)” through the character Vivian Bearing 's revelation that illustrates a patient’s struggle with death and in the process exposes the distinction between medicine and science.

The movie “The Doctor” captures the shortcomings of a mechanized health care industry. Dr. Jack McKee is a gifted, however, arrogant, and self centered surgeon who cares little about the emotional welfare of his patients; treating them with a callous attitude, and examining them as specimen. Out of the four models of physician/patient relationship, Dr. McKee exemplified the Paternalistic model, the least ideal model for physician/patient interactions. He makes decisions for the patient

Excellence in any subject comes with constant practice and thorough study. This ideal is most apparent in medicine, where every day new evidence and clinical guidelines are discovered. As a child I loved to draw. I would constantly ask my parents to get me new drawing books so I could practice. Whenever I had a free moment I would be sketching the world around me. I studied the techniques of the different masters and took heed of the feedback from the art teachers I had in school. Through art I have learned attention to detail without losing sight of the overall picture as well as dedication and the value

A doctor’s mind and heart are very much involved in the patient’s road to recovery. Evidence in support of this statement is shown in William Carlos William poem “ The Red Wheelbarrow, and his essay “The Practice.” Also, in Jack Coulehan poems “The Man with Stars Inside Him, The Six Hundred Pound Man,” and the article “What’s a good doctor and how do you make one?” Individually, each reading and poem has expressed doctor’s emotions with their patients, and what characteristics have guided them into becoming a good doctor. The readings are a representation of how doctors are in fact remorseful when it comes to their patients. While reading these articles, I realize that doctors have been restricted to how much emotion they are allowed to show. All doctors have their weaknesses and their strengths, and they should be vocal about them especially when it comes to treating their patients.

This breadth I really feel like I excel at. The majority of my past college class and future class have science in them. Nursing is all about the study of science. Expanding my way of thinking and learning new ways to help sick patients will make me a better nurse, mom and person of the community. Even thought I had a hard time in anatomy and physiology, I loved this class. Exploring the human body, learning how things function and how virus effect the body caught my interest. Science also requires great local/mathematical skills. This is the intelligences I scored the highest on last week. Physics/Chemistry, if I need to take these class, may prove to be the best learning

Melvin Konner, in “Basic Clinical Skills”, uses a first person point of view along with some bits of humor in order to establish a more relatable narrator. He discusses several topics such as the relationship between doctors and their patients, the healthcare given in hospitals, and the role that the physician plays in different contexts of life.

Contrary to the belief that medicine should be solely clinical in order to preserve professionalism, narrative medicine is rapidly growing in the medical world and opposes clinical medicine by incorporating feelings and connections. Narrative medicine is the idea that doctors should be empathetic and must learn their patient’s story to build bonds that assist in curing the patient of illness, while supporting them mentally and emotionally. Rita Charon, a distinguished physician and professor at Columbia University, states “narrative medicine proposes an ideal of care and provides the conceptual and practical mean to strive toward that idea” (Charon). Medicine is often a difficult puzzle to solve, but being a genuine, caring human being is not. In his heart gripping book, The Measure of Our Days, Jerome Groopman explores the patient physician relationship giving insightful knowledge on the decision making in diagnosis and in treatment of different patients, but more importantly being a benevolent person. One consistent piece in Groopman’s puzzle of medicine is compassion, as he promotes it in every aspect of his career because it helps the victims of illness and disease understand their ailments, accept their fate, all the while building trust with their physicians. In Groopman’s retelling of his and his patient’s intertwined quest for cures and treatments, he exhibits the necessity of narrative medicine’s transgression into medicine for both physicians and patients.

When communication was established with Armando he was mentally aware to make his desires and wishes know. To the hospitals staff surprise, he did want all possible measures taken to save his life, even with the knowledge that he would be a quadriplegic. He therefore was asserting his autonomy: the principle that J.S. Mill clarified by stating each individual has the right to make his or her own choices based on their own set of values and goals, as long as no harm is done to others (Tong, 2007, p.219). In fact, by doing so, he was in effect overriding the staffs’ earlier disregard of the principles of nonmaleficence and beneficence and their paternalistic attitude. Armando was thus allowed to stay in the hospital with all possible services available to him.

I never knew how much I loved science until my love for art developed. As a child, I grew up in a home where my parents encouraged me to flourish creatively. While we lived in Europe, I thrived on new adventures as they took me to museums, cathedrals, and castles throughout several countries. The sculptures and paintings of people always amazed me. My small brain could

Imagine you are injured or sick and have sought a doctor’s help. Although you trusted your doctor, something, something seemingly very in control of the doctor, went wrong. You are angry and confused, but also think of the commonality of medical malpractice. So, why do doctors, who are supposed to help, harm? Though many flaws influence it, malpractice can be, and often is unintentional. Most doctors aren’t trained to harm their patients. Inexperience and lack of medical discovery led to unintentional suffering of the patient. Personal flaws, like lack of willingness to abandon previous medical methods and shortcomings in communication also harm patients. Further reasons why doctors harm are socio-medical understandings that breed hate, prejudices stemming from a society’s belief about certain people, such as the medical practice under the Nazi regime. Additionally, displayed in the case of Ignác Semmelweis, judgement of one to oneself can be detrimental to any progress one’s ideas could make. We will examine these concepts through Jerome Groopman’s “Flesh-and-Blood Decision Making”, Sherwin Nuland’s The Doctors’ Plague and Barbara Bachrach’s “In the Name of Public Health”. Those who practice medicine are, unfortunately, unfree from the imperfections that plague all of humanity. Through these intimate and varied faults, doctors do harm.