Medical progress

Throughout my college career, I have been fortunate to experience many opportunities to immerse myself in the field of genetic counseling through phone interviews, job shadows and internships with a variety of genetic counselors. As a sophomore still seeking to learn more about genetic counseling, I arranged a telephone interview with Patricia Arscott, a cardiovascular counselor from the University of Michigan. Patricia answered all of my questions involving the average job duties, responsibilities

include Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Ultrasound, X-Ray, Mammography, Nuclear Medicine, Interventional, and Radiation Therapy. Each of these uses a different purpose and technology to achieve its goals. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) An MRI is a medical imaging technology that uses radio waves and a magnetic field to create detailed images of organs and tissues. MRI is often used to evaluate blood vessels, abnormal tissue, and organs in the pelvis, chest, and abdomen. It also sees use for bones,

immediate concern, and long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) related to chronic illnesses as an ongoing issue for this patient. The patient’s assessment, including relevant investigations and medical

The word euthanasia comes from the Greek words “eu” which means well and “thanatos” which is derived from death. Euthanasia literally means a “good death” (Davis F.A., 2013, p. 858-859). A good death is different to each person but usually constitutes having friends and family close, dying somewhere familiar, and dying in a comfortable manner with no pain. Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking is beneficial to the terminally ill patient in this way because it helps the family and the patient

Euthanasia is generally misled in correlation to assisted physician suicide in which a person wants to end their suffering because of unbearable pain that they are experiencing but unable to function on doing so and no more hopes besides dying peacefully. Dees starts a complex process through a five steps articulation of the implementation of Euthanasia for the patient who is undergoing the process in which all five steps is within the patient’s rights and their dignity for their advance directive

illness. At one stage, therapy is directed toward assessment and intervention in order to control and/or to cure such illness and alleviate associated symptoms. For some persons, however, the time comes when cure and remission are beyond current medical expertise. It is then that the intervention must shift to what is now often termed "palliative treatment," which is designed to control pain in the broadest sense and provide personal support for patients and family during

Walking down the cold, dimly lit hallways of one of the largest military hospitals in the United States listening to the coughing, moaning and sometimes crying coming out of the terminally ill patients rooms. I have watched many patients that I have personally cared for suffer a great deal during my time as a paramedic. During that span I have wondered and questioned why someone of their own free will not choose to end their own suffering. Working in this environment gave me some insight as to what

While many believe that life is a gift from God, and only God can take it, others demand that terminally ill patients should be able to decide their own destiny, and thus decide whether or not they had suffered enough. They argue that suffering, terminally ill patients should be allowed a legal access to medications hastening death, as the only mean to free themselves of pain unrelieved by palliative care. Today, the debate remains heated dividing conservatives and liberals, pro-life and pro-choice

animals for testing was a well-known philosopher, Aristotle. Later in the second century a Roman physician named Galen was recorded dissecting pigs and goats where he was later nicknamed "the father of vivisection." Much later in the 1600s significant progress was made by William Harvey when he used animals to observe and explain the blood circulatory system. Following William Harvey was Stephen Hales that used a horse to describe the measurement of blood pressure; then Antoine Lavoisier later used a calorimeter

LITERATURE REVIEW In today’s world, people always try to have the best, and this makes safety an important issue. Both medical and non-medical products need to be approved in terms of safety before it is put on the market (Galson, 2005). That’s why products such as cosmetics and drugs need to be tested on animals. However, researchers showed that there are many physiological differences