My Idealistic Views Of Medicine

My interest in medicine first stemmed from my freshman Biology class and my Nutrition class. I was intrigued by our studies of cells, genetics, and disease. Both courses incited a sense of awe and curiosity within me. Dissecting a frog, was the stepping-stone for my interest in medicine. Seeing the frog's heart made me wonder how the human heart worked. My research into the human heart inspired me to learn more about the medical field. I sought out volunteer opportunities that would give me insight into a doctor’s typical day. During my volunteer experience, I learned that as a doctor you experience many obstacles, including patient compliance and insurance approval issues. In my journey to pursue medicine, I learned that becoming a doctor means more than helping people, it means being the team leader, being compassionate, and most importantly being committed to the patient’s well being.

From the beginning of time, doctors and medicine have been put up on a pedestal and greatly admired. They have given to the ones that are sick hope and a way to survive. So many of people have put all their money, faith, and hope into doctors, clinging to any chance that their disease or sickness can be cured. Parents wish for their children to grow up to be doctors one day. Our fascination with doctors stems from many reasons, but the main reason is that they have always been the ones to help us find a solution to our greatest fears, such as death, pain, and sickness. Throughout history doctors have accomplished many great wonders and cured many diseases

As described by Dr. Atul Gawande in his book Complications, medicine “is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge… fallible individuals” making medicine different from other scientific fields

Science and medicine has always fascinated me and has been interesting to be since my education started as a child. All my cousins used to play video games, playing house, playing cards, but instead I always forced everyone on pretending my patients and me treating them and caring for them as a doctor. I also wanted my family members to act if they were sick and they needed help. As time passed, I no longer had to play as it was the reality now and they really now needed help. I have witnessed my family members, my grandmother who passed away due to heart attack at an early age, my other grandmother who currently is sick, my grandfather who passed away also due to heart attack.

In a lot of events, to understand them and make a decision whether the situation is right or wrong, one has to look at each individual. Not everyone thinks a like nor share the same virtues and ethics. According to the research and medicine collide in Haiti there are three points of view ill come across. First will be a Utilitarian guiding me about the ethics in this event, then there’s a Kantian helping, and finally ill speak upon this event to depict if there ethics involved.

It was dark and there were so many noises around me as I slowly woke up and recalled I was in a hospital with abdominal pain. I then heard a familiar voice say “Sweetie, wake up! Wake up!” I opened my eyes to a blurry image of my mother. “Shhh… don't make any noises. We're leaving now. Just act like you are fine. We'll try to sneak out before anyone notices”, my mother said. She explained later that she could not afford to pay hospital bills, so we had to leave before any physician checked over. Living in Vietnam, I was filled with resentment towards their healthcare system, as people were rejected treatment and left to perish in the streets. As a child, I therefore never considered medicine as a career. My spark for medicine was unforeseen until I went on a high school field trip at INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. Hovering over the glass ceiling of the operating theater, I watched doctors performing coronary bypass surgery while witnessing the heart beat stronger and stronger. At this magical moment, I was overwhelmed by the power of medicine to save people’s lives.

I’ve learnt that being a doctor is about so much more than administering drugs. At its peak, being a doctor is about communication and compassion. I love working with people and I love science, and the more exposure I get to medicine the more confident I feel that despite its hurdles and sacrifices, there is no other career that would grant me as much fulfilment as

First, the overwhelming evidence of the total breakdown of the traditional family structure, the inhumane treatment at the hands of political and military authorities as well as the personal experiences of these children with violence and death have grossly impacted their mental awareness. However, psycho-social intervention is not provided because of the high level of poverty among these children and thus the necessity to satisfy their basis sustenance needs such as food, water, and shelter, takes precedence and hardly anything is done to address this urgent need. In spite of limited progress in many areas, healthcare remains a concern (USAID-MoHSW, 2015). While there is not a meaningful difference in the quality of care to either group, orphans tend to have less access to quality health care than non-orphans. There is no evidence that previous assessments on the quality of care of orphans and vulnerable children have changed. When these children fall ill, they were either taken to nearby medical facilities, or traditional healers/herbalists or were not treated at all. Non-orphans who were usually taken by their parents were more likely to receive treatment than orphans. The caregiver (of orphans), usually a family member just may not have the funds for treatment. The situation at the orphanages was even worse. For instance, of the over 100 orphanages assessed by the MoHSW, there was not a single medical facility on site. Moreover, no qualified health worker was employed on these facilities. Further, there was no record(s) to indicate of any regular visit of a medical practitioner; let alone a nurse or doctor. As a matter of fact, less than 2 percent of these orphanages had a first aid kit (Subah-Belleh Associates,

Medicine has and always will be an integral part of my life. I grew up around the vast sea of medicine as my family is a huge believer of science and the capabilities it has to benefit our health. As I grew up I began to question what exactly was entering my body as I’ve always trusted medicine but never knew what exactly was in it. I remember thinking it was like magic, a mysterious entity that comes and magically heals my illness. But this of course was just a child’s imagination trying to come up with a reason as to why everything works. Eventually I came to understand that most of these medicines were derived from the virus itself or it’s a bacterium and this blew my mind. However, the more I dug into the subject I’ve discovered that the ocean plays a larger role in my desired career than I initially

I cannot remember when I began taking an interest in medicine, but the combination between science, passion, and people was the same amalgam that resided in my personality. I began to be involved in numerous science classes, medical organizations, and job shadowing, not for a grade or to build a reputation, but to strengthen my curiosity and myself as a future physician. As I continued on this path, I began to see the disregarded issues in our healthcare system.

My mother, who went to school to become a Medical Laboratory Technician, introduced me to the many fields of medicine. At night I would lay in bed and research on my now-obsolete cell phone, “What is a pathologist?” and “How to become an epidemiologist?”. I became fascinated by the notion that medicine was able to help those struggling with illness and that science sought to put the universe into to order

It is narrow minded and myopic to think that only the sciences are prerequisite in producing compassionate, learned doctors. Some of the most respected physicians and scientists are as knowledgeable and engaged in Shakespeare and Mozart as they are in the anatomy of the human body or the chemistry of DNA.

First and for most doctors are humans and all humans make mistakes. We need to admit that culture of medicine is in urgent need of reformation. From day one medical

We like to think of medicine as a vast sea of knowledge, a science of certainty and applied research intended to heal and cure. Patients visit their doctors expecting to be diagnosed, prescribed, and treated. For several patients, this optimistic outlook is in fact the order of things. But, for many others, medicine is an experimental endeavor and very human in nature. Atul Gawande, in his collection of essays entitled Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, sheds light on this view of medicine as a field of possibilities and dead ends, improvements and failures. In spite of the many changes brought forth by medicine, the evolution of the patient and doctor relationship into one that redefines the role of the

Over the course of one hundred years, medicine has changed astronomically. We have taken steps to discover cures for fatal diseases and innovate new technologies that would change the way we heal patients. Compared to the 19th century, where most medicine was just being discovered, the 20th century had more regulations as well as new experimentations, including self-experimentation, because of information learned through the Medical Revolution that was challenged by moral issues. Before the William Osler’s code of ethics was put into place, physicians weren’t regulated so they did what they wanted regarding medicine.