It had been about 30 minutes since we arrived in the waiting room. The receptionist who was shuffling through paperwork finally motioned for us to come to her counter. “The doctor will be right with you,” she said politely. Not much later we when taken inside the office through a large wooden door with a small rectangular window. “We need to get your height and weight before we take you to your room,” said the brunette nurse. The process took approximately three minutes before we were led to our room where we’d meet my doctor. The door looked exactly like the one I had passed through a couple of minutes ago except the addition of a plaque that read the number three across it. The room smelled of cleaning supplies and was eerily quiet. The room smelled of disinfectant and cleaning chemicals, it immediately attacked my senses. The hospital had several small rooms reserved for its patients. They were petite and only about the size of a small bathroom, they were still stuffed with equipment and artwork. The echoing of faint voices can be heard just around the corridor. My mother and I waited for the doctor to return hoping for some answers. The footsteps of a person approached the doors then a small knock resonated throughout the room. My doctor with her medium build and soft-spoken voice began to explain …show more content…
But now I felt all my hopes and dreams were being crushed. I was scared to because I didn’t quite understand what the doctor was trying to explain to me. I sat back in my chair I tried to piece the whole thing together in my head. I wanted to know why this was happening to me, why am I the one sticking out like a sore thumb. I wanted to stay positive I kept reminding myself that my situation could have been worse. Although I’ll need medication for the rest of myself, at least I’m not dying or suffering from a worse
That took about five minutes total. Then, we were off to meet some patients! Meeting the patients and interacting with them made the whole day for me. Getting to interact with some of the patients and gaining rapport with them helped me decide if I want to work with patients one on one like that all day every day.
he asked me calmly, “I’m the anesthesiologist that saved you.” “Well you sure look like the one that gave me the antibiotic that almost killed me.” “No, no, no. That was Dr. Brunfield, your pre-op anesthesiologist. I’m Thad, the student anesthesiologist.
He quickly flipped through a couple of hundred pages and pointed to a section. He said, read this first and then we will talk about it. This was the start, while I didn’t identify it at the time, of a constant back and forth between me and a couple of emergency medicine physicians who just happened to work in my local small town emergency room. They would not just answer my questions, or just tell me to do this or that, but that they would point me in the right direction to learn on my own and then be there to support me and to answer my questions. It is a practice that I have continued my entire career.
The 1692 events in Salem were not caused by a single person. Rather, the horrific miscarriage of injustice that was unfair persecutions under the guise of witchcraft could be blamed on natural phenomena. When young girls of the Massachusetts town developed strange symptoms, such as vivid hallucinations and strange bodily sensations, the local town doctor could not explain why they had suddenly taken ill. Confused, he diagnosed them with the one thing that made sense to the suspicious religious town: Witchcraft. Now, modern science concludes that a simple fungus was responsible for the girl’s symptoms.
I knew I had to keep pressing south. As I spent the night at the house I pondered if I had triumphed in my plan. I stumbled across a problem if I should trust the doctor to keep my visit silent or would he betray
In those hospital visits I had become accustomed to the sights and smells of a doctor’s office that instead of reminding me of pain, comforted me. I knew from then on, that the medical field was where I was called to serve.
Pennhurst Asylum By: sarah hill The air stands still as you walk around the decaying buildings. The feeling of something watching you is heavily present in your thoughts. An oder, a damp, musty, moldy odor, fills your nose as you try to peek inside and see what 's in these decrepit buildings.
The most memorable thing about a hospital is the smell. The sterile scent of rubber gloves and antibacterial cleaner was an all too familiar part of my childhood as I spent years swinging my feet nervously in waiting room chairs, waiting to be admitted into Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta time and time again. As my life became a series of being poked and prodded with needles for blood tests and IVs, having lead bibs placed on my chest for X-rays, and hearing the dreaded “How are you feeling today?”, the familiar aroma became a stench. Spending days in a hospital bed instead of in the classroom with my friends at school became taxing on my body and mind, and watching the toll it took on my mother who sat in the chair beside me was even more
While this was expected, my emotional and mental health also took a toll. I was drained and overwhelmed after the continual spew of information from the doctors. The feelings of sickness and worry was making it hard to do much of anything, especially when at school. It was evident that constantly thinking about the problems that could arise was not helping me complete everything that had to be done. My life continued to spiral as I struggled to keep up with my physical and emotional health on top of the mountain of work expected from me.
It’s beyond a battle to make the best of my life with chronic illness. “Life is just not fair.” I am not always able to make plans because I don’t know if I will be able to follow through. I don’t know what the future holds because I have to take life as it comes. I can only be hopeful, and I am.
“Good morning, Dr. Lane”, said Kim, who was one of the nurses. “Good morning, Kim. Could I have my patient files?” “Yes, of course, Dr. Lane. They are behind the desk.
I turned left as I entered the door into a room of the same white walls and grey carpet. I was directed towards the room I would be evaluated in. As I walked through the halls, the walls were littered with posters about the quality of WellSpan’s doctors, insurance, and many other frankly biased corporate ideals. After the maze of hallways, I entered a room on the left. The room was the only way to divert my attention from the impending mental spiral I expected to happen.
Walking through the doctor 's office doors. I thought we came for just a normal checkup, but that 's where I was wrong. As my mother and grandma were filling out papers, I was asked how to spell something. I went to glance at the folder and I seen this sentence, “checking to see if tumor has grew.” I just read a sentence telling me my grandma is diagnosed with cancer.
“Sure” I thought. At this point we had arrived at the actual building and I kept thinking I wasn’t going to make it out, like I was going to have open heart surgery or something. The whole waiting room smelled of a doctor’s office which bred even more fear within me. And before I knew it my name was the one being called out. It was time.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Hearing the clock tick while staring at the dull grey walls of the hospital – everything seemed to be still.