Mind Glowing Speech By Atul Gawande

"Better, A Surgeons Notes on Performance" by Dr. Atul Gawande, allows us an insight on his experiences as he explores the breakthroughs in medicine that was accomplished by people striving to improve their performance. There are three components Dr. Gawande believed are essential for a medical professional to encompass; diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. He defines diligence as avoiding errors and overcoming obstacles by paying attention to details. Doing right as a medical professional is to do right for our patient. And ingenuity, recognizing your failures and be willing to change by looking for solutions for better medical care. It is through his experiences as a surgeon that he came to understand the importance of encompassing these components.

Atul Gawande in his article “When the Doctor Makes Mistakes” exposes the mystery, uncertainty and fallibility of medicine in true stories that involve real patients. In a society where attorneys protect hospitals and physicians from zealous trials from clients following medical errors, doctors make mistakes is a testimony that Gawande a representative of other doctors speak openly about failures within the medical fields. In this article, Gawande exposes those errors with an intention of showing the entire society and specifically those within the medicine field that when errors are hidden, learning is squelched and those within the system are provided with an opportunity to continue committing the same errors. What you find when you critically analyse Gawande, “When Doctors Make Mistakes essay is how messy and uncertain medicine turns out to be. Throughout the entire article you experience the havoc within the medicine field as the inexperienced doctor misapplies a central line in a patient.

"Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error…" (John Hopkins Medicine). This soaring number has caused medical errors to become the third leading cause of death in the United States. For many people, medicine seems foreign and unknown. People who have lost loved ones due to medical error desperately look for a reason, and many times that blame falls upon doctors. Media has put a negative connotation on doctors as well, causing their reputation to plummet whenever a hospital procedure turns badly. A renown surgeon and author, Atul Gawande, uses his knowledge and experience to give people a new perspective on medicine. In the article "When Doctors Make Mistakes," Gawande uses rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos to prove the need for a change in the medical systems and procedures. He analyzes how the public looks at doctors, giving a new perspective to enlighten the reader that even the best doctors can make mistakes.

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

Elie Wiesel was a memorable survivor of the unforgettable survivor of the unforgettable Holocaust. His accomplishments and his wise words were inspiring. He went through so much and he moves on from it and worries about us first.

In the Holocaust people only thought about the deaths, not the little amount of people who lived. Today you are going to learn about a guy named Elie Weisel who was a Holocaust surivor.

A long standing tradition is highly valued but compromises may need to be implemented in order to keep up with the proceeding changes in the medical field. Johnson proposes that the current

For many patients with incurable illnesses around the world, the time to stop particular treatments is an ongoing argument. Atul Gawande, a surgeon and staff writer for The New York Times, has been following this debate since his medical practice and strives to inform the public on how to handle mortality. In his article, The Best Possible Day, Gawande employs an anecdote, Ethos, and a eulogy to encourage the audience to consider adjusting a sick person’s care according to how they feel.

As a volunteer in the emergency room, I was exposed to various medical procedures performed by the technicians, nurses, physician assistants and physicians. I was surprised to see how a place that seems to be constantly chaotic can still give every patient the care they need. It was not until I spent more time volunteering in the emergency room did I realize that although it seemed to be chaotic, the healthcare providers had a well established routine along with teamwork. I was shocked when I saw a physician assistant delivering lunch to a patient, as this is usually done by the nurses or technicians. It was through this that I understood how teamwork is essential to providing excellent care. The health care professionals in this emergency room never pulled rank or established clear cut responsibilities, everyone just did what they could and this was how simple their routine was. They didn’t let their pride prevent them from what needed to be done, after all every healthcare worker only has one responsibility; and that is to care for the patient to their fullest

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.

This career field is suspected to grow by fifteen percent by 2024. More and more doctors are in fear of lawsuits, so they are documenting their diagnose and treatment in detail.

Abraham Verghese is a medical practitioner that had grown acustom to unorthodox ways of medical practioning that had been widely used by doctors long before the advancement offered by technical medical supplies and expertise. Though he is learning to accept the multitude of advancements that are becoming availabe to the wide variety of cases to be treated he is still used to the "old school" ways of having bedside manners that could inform doctors better if not equal to what information is displayed on a computer screen. Verghese has argued that bedside manners are becoming that of an ancient relic of medical practioning becuase of computers and technology that hold data for an "icon" instead of a living person, in this way that he argues it is seen as a old lifestyle that is being put out to pasture and being replaced by a tech phenomenom that is considered to be a major leap to saving lives. Abraham Verghese is in awe of the history that is being sweapt underneath the metaphorical rug as this new modern technoogy takes its place, taking place of useful strategies that were available before the help of a machine.

The speech by Dan Corrou; Called to be companions: The middle east through a Jesuit Lens. Was remarkable, the speech was a perfect description of how people from different communities, cultures, and religious backgrounds managed to put away their differences and look to their similarities to attempt to build a better community, and their tolerance and acceptance, as well as their unselfish ambitions to better and aid the middle east, describes exactly what we as a community must aspire to be like. Dan Corrou clearly showed what it is to be a Jesuit and helped open my eyes to better understand what it is exactly they do and are about. His travels across the middle east, yet being an American and his encounters with people of different faiths, Islam in particular due to the geographic location.

I attended the Constitution Day assembly on September 15, 2016. I receive a large amount of information from Cezar E. McKnight’s lecture. Honestly, I ignorant to several laws before I heard Mr. McKnight’s speech. This assembly was very informative and it is one of the most relevant assemblies I have experience since my matriculation at Claflin.

Hello class, my name is TaJah Van Dassor. I'm am here to complete my Associate of Arts degree. My larger goal is to major in aviation. I am from Minnesota, but currently live in Atlanta, Georgia. I love the weather here. I enjoy reading, writing, music, art and traveling. One study tip that I practice is time management. It's important to set aside enough to study; especially in accelerated classes. Good luck to