Meredith The Medical Miracle Summary

Throughout this story we as readers are aware that the doctor himself is suffering from a similar illness as his dead patient. This plus losing his girlfriend Anna can be the cause of him depression. The narrative starts by him stating “this is just unbearable” (344) ; referring to his depression. As the story goes on, his illness becomes intolerable and almost seemingly impossible for him to life with. This is seen on page 361 in the HHR when the doctor says “it hurts so much”. A chaos narrative displays “Illness as permanent state of disaster” (Week 2, Page 44). This can be seen on page 353 when the dead patient’s father says to the doctor that the doctor agreed with his son that “life was meaningless and

September 15 was a day I won’t forget I was scared for my friend Donavin he was 13 and had to get surgery on his neck, he had a 50% of making it through the surgery. I sat in the waiting room for what seemed like days, I ended up sleeping on the floor of the waiting room to get good or bad news. It was 5:00 pm when the nurse can in I got out of my seat as my sister held my hand tight. “He made it through the surgery would you like to see him” the nurse said. Without saying anything to the nurse, I ran to the room and opened the door with tears, my eyes waiting to see his face. I walked over and saw him sleeping, I layed next to him and hugged him like I have not seen him in forever, I was glad to see him doing well. By wanting to stay with a friend in the hospital, I was showing that I cared for that person. The characters of Sandra from “Geraldo no last name” and Liesel from the book thief showed that they care about people they don’t know.

They do exactly what she wants them to do. "What the chronics are, or most of us, are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot." (Kesey, 16). This quote explains how the patients are in the hospital. They are all machines to fit it with the rules of the hospital and they just have to accept that they are all messed up. Once a person is machine for so long they just begin to rust with all the rest of the robots. This quote also really shows how much they are under control by Nurse Ratched. "He shakes the hands of wheelers and walkers and vegetables, shakes hands that he has to pick up out of laps like picking up dead birds, mechanical birds wonders of tiny bones and wires that have run down and fallen." (Kesey, 23). This

They took a sharp turn over a some railroad tracks and the back door flew open. Jeannette rolled out of the car, she rolled many yards on the embankment. When she came to a stop, she was too shocked to cry and she all bloody and scraped up. She called herself a burden, and said they could do fine without her. When her family turned around and came screeching to a halt, her dad got out of the car, knelt down, and tried to give Jeannette

It was a Sunday night, August the seventh, approximately 9:15, Debbie came out of her house to get her mail, when all of a sudden she was struck by a teenager texting and driving. When Debbie got to the hospital, she was in a coma and swollen from head to toe, her right eye was swollen shut, her neck was broken, both arms were broken, ribs were broken, her pelvis was smashed, she had a broken ankle and a broken leg. Debbie doesn’t remember anything from the accident, but from what she was told, she was bringing her leashed dog for a walk for the last time at night before she went to bed. Unfortunately, Debbie’s dog was killed. As of today, Debbie’s balance is off and her arms don’t work very well.

Without the lovers being together, Meredith would have died. It puts life into perspective that we need other people to survive for emotional and mental support. Others may not ‘save our life,’ but they surely are a voice when we need someone to talk to. “There are medical miracles. Being worshippers of the altar of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist. But they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen. At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren’t, we take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we touch” (Meredith Grey, “Some Kind of Miracle”

Journal Entry #1 - If I was Meredith at the point in Chapter 1, I would have told my mom that I did not feel comfortable around my dad. Since he has been charged with child molestation. Why is it that Sharon forces her dad back into her life? On (Pg.17)Meredith expresses her feelings “… and turn to leave because my father and I are not supposed to be alone together, and we all know it.” I predict that they are not going to get along throughout the book.

Discussion how “words of comfort” encapsulated the books take on medicine, I feel that these words are showing us how in medicine being a caring and sympathetic health care provider is important. (Verghese, 2009) In the book relationships with patients is shown to be as important as the care they are providing. Knowing how much technology and medicine has advanced in the last years I feel that no matter how good the scientific side of it is there has to be a relationship with the health care providers and patients. It is proven that a positive relationship helps a patient recover faster. Relationships can help in many ways just having someone to talk to, give feedback, and encouragement are all way relationships are able to benefit and speed up recovery. (Brainline, 2015)

I then asked her, “If you still value modern health care system, why is it that you always tend to procrastinate treatment or prefer to self medicate with over the counter medication or herbs? Why not just go to the hospital and get treated ?” She explained, that is is unnecessary to seek help in modern healthcare facilities for acute or chronic diseases. “ If the symptoms reach a point of affecting my daly routine then ill go” she said. Another main reason she stated for not considering treatment for chronic diseases was the communication gap between herself and the doctors. I found that really interesting because we discussed about this topic a few times in class and in the reading “The Spirit Catches you and Fall”. It wasn’t only language

The sweat was dripping down John’s face as he pushed the weights off his chest. Everyone ran towards their bags after a student said there was a gun in school. Twitter was the first source that everyone checked just to make sure. Boom! The door slammed open as Coach Ben yelled “Hurry up and get out”. John’s heart started beating faster and faster. No one knew what was going on. As students were running to the gym everyone was panicking and pushing each other. John could feel the burn on his elbow but he didn’t know what it was. When everyone got to the gym John’s elbow was covered in blood. Everyone was told to get down and stay quiet. Later on coach told everyone a student brought a gun to school and was planning on committing suicide.

She was captivated by his recovery with minimal scarring. It was at that moment she realized that practicing medicine was what she wanted to do. She even said, “This was truly being God…I wanted to cure” (14).

When she awoke the skies were gray and gloomy, the air suddenly was cold and felt as though it could cut like a knife. Something felt out of place, but Lori could not put her finger on it. Her feet hit the floor, and began looking around only to see that she is all alone.The place that once was warm and welcoming now is all but that. The frail girl screams loudly, when there is no reply, she knew something must be terribly wrong.

“AHH!” I screamed. I was at Lazer Tag with my friends when I had suddenly fallen on the ramp. A little kid was chasing me down the ramp and I was running back trying to make sure that he didn’t shoot me. That’s when suddenly I had misplaced my foot and fell down at least 3 feet and landed on my wrist. “AGH”, I tried so hard not to cry but tears raced down my face faster than Usain Bolt.

Blake got to where I was. He ran straight back to his apartment once he saw what happened. I was balling my eyes out as I looked around confused. I saw my mom run down the stairs and down the grass hill in front of our apartment to me. When she got to me I was trying to tell her what was wrong but nothing came out. She started to pull me up the hill and carried me into our apartment. She asked my brother to go down and get my scooter out of the road, and he did as asked. My mom took me through the apartment to the bathtub. From there she turned on the cold water and soothed the pain on my arm. The water was freezing, but at least it wasn’t anything too bad. It did feel good on my arm though. I was dizzy, and my vision was blurry from my tears. All I could think about was what was happening to my

While watching Cake, it was an intense movie that dealt with Claire who was fascinated by the outcome of Nina. Claire during the film was impacted by her decisions and kept looking back in order to figure out what occurred to Nina and why she ended up committing suicide. The amount of obsession that Claire gained on the death of Nina lead for her to take major decisions in her lifestyle. Chronic pain went a long way in the movie during her journey, support groups tried to make her get the help she needed but everyone has a different coping skill. Since the movie became a little confusing to me I tried to focus on her diagnoses and reasons in which she ended up being this person. Overtaking prescription drugs, was a symptom of depression and since the car crash of her son she did not know how to cope with her depression. Instead of dealing with her depression Claire took all these pain killers in order to forget the car accident and that her child was gone for good. Movie brought up the fascinating topic that there will always be home even though Claire did not think about it as she felt over whelmed with her pain. Claire was portrayed as a broken grieving mother that does not know how to cope with the suffering. Every person affected from chronic pain is more than their pain and the pain is deeper than expected. Stories are being told in these support groups that may not be as seen when we look at the person that is suffering from chronic pain. For Claire sitting up was the