Creative Writing: Apollo Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a non-profit organization that helps battle pediatric cancers. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is not your typical children’s hospital. The services and support they provide to their patients is unique as their founder Danny Thomas. I will explore their founder’s history, mission, and how they are able to continue the work today.

A Heart for the Work: Journeys Through an African Medical School by Claire L. Wendland is both an first hand account of time spent in an African medical school and hospital as well as a critique on Western medical practices. Dr. Wendland, an accomplished anthropologist and physician, provides a first hand account of her time in a Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Through this account she provides insight into the complete journey a student must take to become a doctor in conditions much different than our own. These insights and research are used to argue that medicine, or biomedicine as it is called, is part of a cultural system and is predicated on the cultural ideals and resources of developed nations. Wendland uses the differences in moral order, technology, and resources between the Malawian culture and our own culture to provide evidence for her main argument.

Dr. Vincent Lam is a profound Canadian physician and writer. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is his award winning novel that speaks on the reality of what it’s actually like to be in medical school aiming to be apart of a medical profession and the difficult expectations students must face while still managing to stay sane during those challenging years of their lives. It’s a collection of short stories partly based off of his experiences in the medical field, following the lives of fictional characters Ming, Fitzgerald, Chen, and Sri as they endure medical school and later work as doctors. Dr. Lam does a remarkable job at incorporating unique and compelling characters with intriguing storylines who face common and extraordinary moral dilemmas that seem to shape their overall characters. Lam introduces themes of love, fear, tradition, drugs, death, self doubt, duality, etc.

I chose to interview B. G, our clinical educator in my unit, who started her career after graduating BSN from Indian Army, 1991. She worked from 1991 – 1993 at Military hospital in India as a ward sister who is in charge of the medical unit. She gained clinical experience while assessing patients, taking vital signs, assisting doctors and performing venipunctures and injections.

If you look in the Sayre park art room, you might see someone standing in there painting or drawing or maybe even sculpting with clay. She is very elegant and friendly. But who is she?

The weather was pleasant, with cloudless blue skies and the air heavy with birdsong along their route. Accompanying those who were being sent to assess the damage at the Salsolan Outpost had been a choice — the same way drinking when thirsty was a choice — and bringing her slave had been just another facet.

Today I worked in the Bronx Terminal Home Depot with Sean Rampersad and Alexander Castro. We held an R2 Event for the Northern Division R2 Contest and it turned out to be a huge success! My expectations for Bronx Terminal was about $1,500 going into the event. However Sean, Alex, and I was able generate over $4,189 in R2 sales! By 3pm our R2 event made up over 30% of today’s entire D25 sales, mind blown! It was a fun event, with tons of interaction and PK sessions with both the customers and associates. A big win today was the sell through of Special Buy items. Such as, (8) Ridgid Brushless Hammer Drill/Circ Saw Combo Kits, along with, utilizing the up to $150 Promo. During today’s event I also found the new Ryobi 3-Speed Impact Driver BT,

On these trips, I got my first opportunities for direct patient contact working with family doctors, internists and gynecologists. I was responsible for taking vitals such as blood pressure, weight, height and blood glucose. It was rewarding to work alongside the doctors and interact with patients. I remember in Haiti, I started to take the blood pressure of an elderly man who had just walked twenty miles, when his eyes blanked. I grabbed a cold compress, stayed calm as the man’s body went limp, and called for the doctor. The man was having a stroke in front of me. I used an oxygen mask to help him

In my life, I have experienced the incredible work healthcare professionals can provide and how lack of access to care can lead to dire consequences. Growing up in my village in Bangladesh, I was first hand witness to this lack of adequate healthcare. I had to watch my sisters deliver babies without training, I had to witness an aunt suffer in an agony due to the lack of adequate healthcare facility, but my most vivid experience of this lack of healthcare came when I was the victim of an acid attack and had to wait three days to receive medical attention. Due to this attack, I have third degree burn on approximately ninety percent of my body, and left me blind in one eye. Due to the lack of adequate health care in Bangladesh, two organizations, “Healing the Children” and “Naripokkho”, decided to provide me with medical care in the United States. It was there, that I was eventually exposed to all the wonderful work that could be done by doctors and other healthcare professionals. I have had approximately thirty reconstructive surgeries to repair my nose, eyelids and part of my forehead that was perforated through my skull. These experiences have inspired me to want to become a doctor, with the hope of giving back to my local community in Bangladesh, United States and globally.

The importance of Integrity and the ethos in the altruistic career of medicine appealed to me to enter into this honourable career. Growing up in the deprived areas of Pakistan, healthcare is used as an excuse to make money from vulnerable patients. Living in the UK has strengthened my enthusiasm for medicine as the healthcare facilities available here are magnificent.

My interest in Infectious disease began even before entering residency half way across the world in the unique country of Nepal. Nepal is rich in natural beauty with breath taking landscapes, diverse culture but is also one of the most impoverished. I had the privilege to witness first hand how the dedicated physicians living there do the most with less in one of the most remotest parts of Nepal. Majority of the cases were infectious in nature with differentials including organisms not as prevalent in the US: tuberculosis, typhoid, dengue, malaria, brucellosis and leptospirosis to name a few. What the physicians lacked in resources, they made up their close attention to detail in both the history and the thoroughness of their physical exam. My interest further developed during my residency years where I had the pleasure of working with seasoned infectious disease attendings and was exposed to an array of pathology… even seeing a handful of extremely rare

The Xcel Energy Center is, for me especially, one of our few places to enjoy sports, entertainment, and the thrilling people of my home state of Minnesota. For one it is a gorgeous place to go and watch events. Secondly, it holds many memories for not just me, but many more Minnesotans too. It also has a magnanimous and outstanding atmosphere that is always thrilling to watch hockey games and concerts alike. Without further rambling let us begin!

I went to Burger King with three friends. We walked a long way then I

When I was seven years old I went on my very first holiday abroad, to

Toronto airport isn’t my favourite place. Especially on christmas day of all days. Most people are spending it with their families or going away with their families, but not me. I am currently waiting by myself in this huge airport that is filled with way too many people. I was headed to England by myself at 16. Keep in mind, I technically wasn’t going to be in England alone, I was just flying alone. My best friend and her family live there. You are probably thinking why on earth are you best friends with someone in England if you live in Canada. Ah, well let me tell you. It’s not a long story, I promise.