Lasik surgery

Spending as much time as I did looking in the mirror, I thought I knew what I looked like. So it came as a shock one afternoon toward the end of summer when I went shopping with my mother for a new shirt and saw my face in the harsh fluorescent light of the fitting room. Pulling the new shirt on over my head, I caught a glimpse of my reflection in a mirror that was itself being reflected in a mirror opposite, reversing my face as I usually saw it. I stood there motionless, the shirt only halfway

left in the season, I entered his office with the notion that he would release me for play again. He looked at the x-rays and did his usual examination. Once completed, he said “I know you want to play, but one bump the wrong way and we’ll be in surgery.” He glanced at my mom and said “If you were my daughter I wouldn’t let you play the rest of the season.” While I respected his opinion, I did not like it. I knew there was no way my parents would not follow the physician’s advice. My season

The importance of surgery Surgical conditions are common and account for a significant portion of the global disease burden. “The term surgical condition refers to any condition that requires incision, excision, manipulation, suture, or other invasive procedure that usually, but not always, requires anesthesia.” (4) However, this term is not limited to patients upon whom an incision is made or is to be made. Surgical conditions cut across various groups or classes of disease ranging from communicable

1.1 Anesthetics are used in surgeries to give a patient the ease of undergoing procedures without the feeling of any pain. The patient themselves undergoes a loss of consciousness when administered with anesthetic, and the extent of which, whether the patient is conscious or not, is dependent on the type of anesthetic and the method. There is a local anesthetic, which is used to numb a specific part of the body, by inserting the anesthetic drug into the surrounding area of where a medical procedure

comes to their job. CRNA’s work with anesthesiologist surgeons and other physicians and medical professionals to give anesthesia to patients undergoing medical and surgical procedures. CRNA’s care for patients before, during and after a medical or surgery by doing a patient assessment , preparing the patient for anesthesia, they must maintain the anesthesia throughout the whole procedure to secure the proper sedation, and pain management, and as a CRNA they must make sure the patient recovers from

When someone hears the word infection the first thing that comes to mind is not Osteomyelitis because many people don’t know what it is. Osteomyelitis is rare but serious infection that occurs in bones. Children and adults can contract the infection but people with diabetes have an increased risk. Osteomyelitis comes in different forms depending if it caught early on or if it has been present for a long period of time. Various treatments are available for the infections as well as different prevention

Civil War Technologies The Civil War was an extremely important time of crisis for our country that 620,000 soldiers were slaughtered in. This number is the highest in the history of any American war. Most people believe those soldiers died of gunshot wounds or amputations, but most of them without fatal wounds died from diseases that they had never before been exposed to. Two times the amount of troops died from these diseases than those were killed in battle. These diseases were caused because

Being a young child, I have always wanted to follow my mothers footsteps into being in the medical field. Seeing how proud and hardworking my mother was really triggered me into wanting to be a surgeon. As a child, my dad would take me to Moses Cone hospital and allow me to watch my mother treat patients and help them. Watching my mother provide excellent service to patients was an honor for me. However, what really triggered me into wanting to be a surgeon, was the death of my first cousin. As the

Throughout my entire life some of the closest people to me have either lost their lives to or are currently battling against cancer. Recently I came home from Philadelphia where I go to college and the next morning when I went downstairs to my dad immediately telling me to sit down because he had to tell me something and simultaneously my mom is sitting soundlessly next to him. An overwhelming feeling instantaneously came over me and I knew I wasn’t going to hear good news. My dad asked me, “What

The “Hidden Life” behind the Zika Virus As a pharmacy major, this semester I took the class medical microbiology. As we talked about different diseases, we briefly touched on the history of some of the diseases and it made me very curious to learn more about how the history of medicine has shaped our world today. So, for this final paper I thought it would be a great way to explore more about world history, through the lens of medicine. For the past few months, the Zika Virus has been a “hot