When I read this story the only thing I could think about was bravery, and how one man risked his life for what he thought was right. This story follows a medical resident doctor who traveled to Gettysburg for a casual getaway. On his car ride home, he witnessed a horrific car crash right before his eyes. The small pickup truck in front of him was struck in a violent collision by a Ford Bronco during its attempted left turn. While the driver of the Bronco seemed relatively unscathed, the driver of the pickup suffered the brunt of the accident. James approached the pickup only to see beer bottles inside, with the driver blue in the face due to a broken neck. James immediately thought of the consequences if he tried to help the man in critical condition, and failed. He would have lost his right to practice medicine, and probably have to deal with a lawsuit for the rest of his life. James decided to help the man, and succeeded even though there was a huge risk hanging over his head. …show more content…
They save lives every day and have to carry the weight on their shoulders if somebody dies. I never knew that some had to do their already tough job while, in the back of their head, thinking that messing up will cost them. This story is just anecdotal evidence of how brave people in the medical world are. With all the potential consequences brewing in his mind, James jumped to the call of action to not only help, but saves a drunk driver. It is through selflessness that Doctors perform the toughest, most critical job in the world. I aspire to use the natural instinct that every human has the potential to harness, to help the ones who need me the
Gettysburg, witnessed a great amount of death in terms of soldiers. In which Carl Schurz a German immigrant served as a commander. Remembering the setting of after war scenario, he describes it in the detail. As he watches the battlefield, he feels sympathize towards the dead people on the floor. Watching them lay like dead, he talks about how brutal there conditions are and what have they been through.
Medical staff do it because it is a selfless act. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. To me, this means that no matter who the person is someone should always put them first. In Act three, Viola Pettibone’s cat gets stuck up 60 feet in a tree and won’t come down. (p.81, Hesse)
Growing up on the border of inner city and suburban lifestyle I have seen many different things. The struggles, the triumphs, setbacks, but also the amazing comeups in life. Throughout everything that I have seen, I always wanted to help those who had fallen get back up and be one of the many people who encouraged and advocated for the ones who succeeded. My passion has stayed true for years to be the helping hand for my community and those generations who will come after me.
Medical personnel are given a very difficult job, to save people lives. In this difficult
Compassion can be defined as "sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. " It is an essential piece to a more united world. A book that stresses this idea is just mercy. In the book just mercy, lawyer Bryan Stevenson emphasizes the importance of compassion towards others by using strong examples of injustice and personal perspectives, ultimately moving the readers to show compassion to those around them.
Sometimes when asked to define a word that everyone knows the meaning of, it can be hard to articulate the true meaning of that word. Compassion seems to be one of them. Gregory Boyle does his best to define compassion by saying “compassion isn’t just about feeling the pain of others; it’s about bringing them in toward yourself” (75). If we are to be as compassionate as God is compassionate, then we must destroy stereotypes and break boundaries that separate the marginalized from the non-marginalized. Boyle goes on to try to further explain compassion by giving explicit examples from his life where compassion was shown, by either him or another human being.
In Barbara Lazear Ascher's essay “On Compassion”, she describes various situations she's observed in New York City to imply that “compassion is not a character trait like a sunny disposition. It must be learned… adversity that becomes so familiar that we begin to identify and empathize it.” While observing these two scenes, Ascher expresses her admiration towards the curiosity behind compassion by availing pathos, use of questioning and variant figurative language to illustrate the encounters. Combine these two sentences. Through the use of pathos, Ascher exemplifies a description of the homeless as dressed unwell, unhygienic, filthy, and acrid.
I want to earn my way up to a good university and earn my degree, apply to an outstanding dental school and start my long years of residency that lie before me. One of my goals in the future is to help others in need for medical attention. It makes me happy when I see others happy. I want to give back to my community and help others so I can earn the respect that I’ve always wanted.
“Women are sterilized in the surgical ward. What difference does it make since none of them will return, since none of us will return.” - Charlotte Delbo Doctors are supposed to be the bearer of life. They are the healers. When sickness befalls a person doctors are called to relieve the patient’s suffering and pain.
I’m going to tell you a story, it’s about a young private fresh outta high school, drafted into the army. This young man's name was Sean Garrett, gunner in the forty third armored division. He was an accomplished soldier, had a bright future ahead of him. Private Garrett was killed when his tanks hull was breached by enemy artillery fire. On his person squadmates found his journal, one particular excerpt stuck out more than the rest.
As an aspiring physician in Emergency Medicine, it is hard to describe typical physician workday activities. Every day is unique and filled with many opportunities to learn and develop clinical, interpersonal communication, leadership and critical thinking skills. Despite this, there are certain routine activities which I had the opportunity to observe through my shadowing experience in the Emergency and Operating rooms at California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles. One day, a two year old patient came into the ER after falling and cutting her head. The patient’s mother told the physician that her daughter is nervous and scared.
All kinds of things about what they expected him to do came to his mind After what seem like forever, the DMV staff finally called James up to take his test. It was finally time for him to drive! When he got in the car the DVM staff told him to check his mirror. James checked his mirror, put the car in gear, and pulled out.
This reflection of an arrogant heart surgeon, Dr. Jack MacKee, as he experience life from a patient’s perspective has emphasizes a lesson I learned of being more empathetic towards others and less callous. It taught me to be more observant of my attitude towards life and dead, and caused me to evaluate and improve areas in my life where I lacked communication. "The Doctor," Portrayed Dr. Jack MacKee as a handsome, cocksure heart surgeon who seemed to have it all. In quick succession of earlier scenes encapsulate Dr. MacKee and his surgeon colleagues as cool, with gallows humor, and the abstracted sense of ”caring” that allow them to view their patients as subtly inferior beings. During the opening scene Dr. MacKee was seen preforming heart
I want to be a person that happily stays the whole day trying to understand peoples’ thoughts to assistance them in life. I want to be, nothing more, nothing less than a
Compassion is the emotion that one feels in response to the suffering of others that motivates a desire to help (Sherlyn Jimenez, ), whereas the term ‘Benevolent’ has come from Latin, where “bene” means ‘well’ and “volent”, a verb which means ‘to wish’, the word itself brings goodness with it. Therefore, benevolence must incorporate compassion. Compassion has not only deep religious connotations, but it also refers to showing concern for the suffering or welfare of others, and shows mercy to others. The feeling of compassion is evident when leaders make an effort to understand the needs of their employees and take steps to address those needs and concerns in organisation (Cooper Brian, Santora, Sarros, J, 2007).The person practicing benevolence are large hearted and kind enough to help others. Until and unless we consider things from other’s point of view, we will never be able to understand a person’s opinion and his/her perceptions (Cooper, K, Brian.