Jd Application Thesis

I put on the lead apron and walked into the operating room. I was shadowing an interventional radiologist, and although I was just watching the procedure, I was nervous. What if I faint? What if I get queasy during the surgery and have to walk out? These questions filled my mind with diffidence. But as I stood there, just a few feet from a doctor carefully maneuvering a catheter around the vasculature of the patient’s brain, I had never been more intrigued and excited. My feelings of self-doubt washed away as a flood of fascination and curiosity came over me. I watched as the doctor skillfully pulled the blockage out of the women’s brain and place it on a tray next to me. The enormity of the procedure was not lost on me. Sitting next to me

I believe that one of the most pressing health care issues facing the nation would be the lack of access to quality healthcare services. At the clinic, most patients are financially disadvantaged and unable to gain access to quality healthcare services elsewhere due to lack of adequate insurance coverage. The inability to access quality healthcare services can have severe consequences: not only are these people unable to get the proper treatment for their ailments, but their inability to access quality healthcare can lead to further complications, higher treatment costs, and emotional distress. Fortunately, Drs. Alieta and John Eck have managed to provide adequate medical care for most of their patients at the clinic.

I finally came to recognize that spending my life doing something that I find enjoyable needs to be replaced by something incredible, and in my eyes, inconceivable. One person, the doctor, is trusted enough by the patient to carve their way into this unknown body and explore their internal organs in an attempt to fix a medically induced complication. I know that by pursuing this career, I’ll reach my goal of doing something that is going to benefit both myself and the surrounding community in a way only few can achieve.

The Washington Post reported on June 16, “Once again, the United States has most the expensive, least effective health care system in survey.” It’s apparent that the United States healthcare system is in an economic crisis. Furthermore, the United States healthcare system is not only in economic turmoil, but the social systems currently in place offer little to no future economic resolve for the predicament we are currently situated in. The paradox that seems to have fallen upon American healthcare is that, “The system doesn’t want you to die, but at the same time doesn’t want you to get well.” Heineman (2012) It is bad business. In other words, medicine is a business and I have witnessed this approach towards business in medicine first hand in my over five years of clinical and business experience in the medical field.

Steven Brill’s, America’s Bitter Pill, finds that there is a common theme among all factors of healthcare: access is restricted, the cost is unwarranted, and quality is disproportionate to the costs.

For years now, I’ve had dreams of going to medical school and becoming a surgeon. I don’t know what kind of surgeon I would want to be, but cardiothoracic is up there. In my eighth-grade science class we dissected pig’s hearts and a kid’s dad, a heart surgeon, helped. He told me I had the hands of a surgeon, which I thought was incredible considering my aspirations. Not only did this article interest me because I have general knowledge on the workings of a heart, but also because it shows the process of cleaning up mistakes in a medical

Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care, the words of Theodore Roosevelt written in the radiology department at Good Samaritan Hospital, where I work as a Radiologic technologist. These words are a constant reminder of why I choose to pursue a career in medicine. Growing up in Haiti, I was an underweight, mal nourished child with a weak immune system. Sick days seemed to occur every other day. In a country with limited resources, I remember traveling with my parents to different towns in search for medicine and the right physician. We would walked miles, but no miles was ever long enough to stop my parents from getting their son the proper treatment. At a young age my parents showed me the true meaning of altruism and empathy, necessary skills needed to make a great physician. Living in poverty can have major consequences on one’s health. I witness this in my own health and those surrounding me. To survive these harsh conditions, as a community we had to stick together, we had to care for one another. We shared everything with our neighbors, from clean drinking water, food supplies, to natural herb treatment and medicine. From observing the change in lives in the community when treatment was provided, I quickly learned to values the benefits of good Health and medicine.

The patients and families were taken advantage of because they were poor and unable to afford proper healthcare. Participation in the study gave them access to medical treatment. Their poverty level and general lack of education contributed to their inability to gain knowledge beyond what was given to

The authors of this article are Harriet Hutson Gray and Susan Cartier Poland. Gray is a reference and digital service librarian at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and Poland is a Research Associate for the National Reference Center for Bioethics at Georgetown University. The article is intended for the US government and the general public about the uneven balance in the health care sector, and the long-term impact on medical practices. The article describes the luxurious treatments in the US that many cannot afford, and the people who are going overseas to get the treatment. The authors address the challenges the middle-classes must bear. When patients return home, aftercare could become a big challenge, as there may

While practicing in Nigeria, one thing that bothered me a great deal was how patients battling heart diseases were more likely to show up to the hospital only when their medical conditions had become severe. Though often wishful that patients presented earlier, I was nevertheless always determined to help the patients as much as I could. In the end, I concluded that to best serve the patient population we attended to at the hospital, a further training in internal medicine would equip me with the tools needed to effectively help and treat my patients.

Whilst being born in a refugee camp in Ghana, I did not have the privilege to access quality health care like those in more developed countries. My experience with healthcare was very limited until my family immigrated to the United States in 1998. Even then my experience was limited to poverty and adverse living conditions. About 10 of us were living in a small area trying to thrive in a new foreign country I did not fully grasp the importance of health.

Access to health care can sometimes be a challenge. That challenge is even greater for people whose needs are extensive and costly or those who have special needs and have difficulty figuring out access on their own. This would include the unemployed, the retired and children. Improving access for these individuals is a very necessary, ongoing activity. It will be interesting to see how the U.S contrasts with G.B.

When I shadow Dr. Winchell, I have an opportunity to scrub into the Operating Room and observe as he repairs critical injuries. His patients consistently declare their trust in him before surgery, a quality that I learned is essential to the patient-physician relationship. During rounds, I watched his surgical team open the abdominal wall of a man suffering from compartment syndrome while at his bedside, revealing their adaptability. I also recognized his dedication to lifelong learning and continuous drive towards enhancing his surgical technique when we conversed about trauma care. I possess the same desire to continually learn and improve, augmenting my passion for a career in

Although American physicians tend to be interested in the science and not the administration of health care, the two go hand in hand. In South Africa, one has the chance to work with and learn from other medical students whose curricula include rotations in health care administration as well as in scientific study. I feel fortunate that, by studying abroad, I have been formally and practically introduced to some of the politics that influence health treatments and distribution. I expect that this will likely influence my thinking later in my career as well.

Patient care is one of the most important aspects of the medical field; it is also something that is sometimes forgotten about. During my first few weeks of clinical I really started to understand why patient care was something that we needed to know. In the beginning of my first term when I was taking Patient Care everything that we were being taught seemed like common sense; keep the patient warm, make sure they are comfortable, try to do the procedure accommodating to them, but as I went out into the field those little extra efforts seemed to not be important. My first day opened my eyes to how some medical professionals took care of their patients.