A long red chair, longing patients, an old man sitting solemnly in the deepest room, all contribute to my unforgettable memory. My grandfather, in my obscure mind, was always the one who slightly put his hand on patients’ pulse, and made prescription in an steady voice. Talking with those waiting aunts, lunging into grandpa’s consulting room to observe him feeling a pulse, seeing numerous patients laugh and leave the clinic, I was the seemingly the only one brought the vitality in the whole clinic. I always accompanied my grandpa standing under a wall, a wall that becomes the medal for his whole life. The treated patients were used to brought their gift, a calligraph or a sculpture made by themselves. These invaluable presents were hung carefully on the wall. As soon as he got spare time, my grandfather would stand under this wall and saw them with full satisfaction, describing every detail when he treated these people. At that time, my grandpa, who was always in the figure of solemn, suddenly becomes a …show more content…
I invited several elder doctors in our clinic to the class and taught us students a series of prescription to cure some classic colds. Having these useful prescription, we regularly go to the communities to treat those people with colds but are too poor to get treated in the hospital free. We, right now, do not so many ambitions but just are looking forward to try our best to spread the merits of traditional Chinese medicine and help more individuals to get rid of their diseases. With more people joining us and interested in these traditional medicine, we feel a great satisfaction.
For several times, I dreamed about that scene—my favorite old man, sitting there, feel the pulse and write down the prescription. This is the most attractive figure in my current life. My only dream is to keep this scene and to let it continue in this
Working in a clinic allows me to vision how my private practice will operate. After shadowing for several weeks, the long eight hours of standing and assisting patients was second nature to me. I have the opportunity to work with pediatric and geriatric patients. Although, I have experience working with both outside of the field medicine, I want to continue while in my career. While interacting with geriatric patients, who tells ten-minute stories before mentioning their real symptoms, I realize patience and diligence is a skill I must possess.
As a doctor, Kalanithi had experienced his fair share of apathy towards patients. He writes to the audience that there were plenty of times when he “pushed discharge over patient worries” or “ignored patient’ pain”; however, “they all returned, vengeful, angry, and inexorable” (85). After his cancer diagnosis, Kalanithi experiences the patient’s point of view, when an exhausted, snippy doctor refuses to provide him the medication he wants. This neglect and passivity ultimately leads the author to experiencing severe pain and “deterioration,” as his kidneys failed, his bowels were abnormal, and his mouth was so dry he couldn’t swallow (188). Contrastly, when Kalanithi was in the hands of a kind, empathetic oncologist, Emma, it was then that he was in his most relaxed and enjoyable state.
In hopes of alleviating his pain, Father Pham’s acquaintances reached out to Dr. Pham, a known physician in the Vietnamese community for help. She accepted the case. Since I was shadowing her at the time, she took me with her when she conducted a house visit to see the patient. As a primary physician, try as she might, there was
Every patient he observed he moved with swiftness and elegance and challenged me by giving me small tasks on getting to know the patients and observing the little things when providing care. This event resulted in me deciding in becoming a family practice physician. I decided upon this because I want to experience the connections Dr. Joby has with all of his patients and the constant
Routine A disturbance in a Tuesday morning routine was a change of a lifetime: my brief car-ride nap was interrupted by a crash, then, the jarring of the ambulance. It was an unexpected awakening. Sixth grade social studies and spelling tests had to be put aside, as the rest of my day would be filled with the beeps of machines and chatter of scrub-clad trauma nurses. Suddenly, my mind was back in my body - and my first conscious words were my complaints of the uncomfortable neck brace, followed by my request to remove it.
English 102 through the Alabama Early College Program has taught me the importance of writing skills. When I first began online classes for English, I quickly started learning techniques that I needed to keep up throughout the semester. Each assignment and essay is due at midnight, therefore starting or finishing an assignment early allows the writer enough time to turn in the assignment. Throughout the five modules, I have learned how to write an argument and rhetorical analysis, conduct research and write an exploratory essay. In each module, I learned writing techniques and skills that I never knew before.
Recently, time was spent observing and waiting at a doctor’s office. The practice is a small, one doctor general practice. Sign-ins are done on individual slips of paper, and left on the counter, then patients sit and wait until called. In the waiting room, the doctor tried to mitigate aggravation for those waiting by providing a television, a variety of recent magazines, and various medical brochures.
Going through daily life you experience many different things, and most of them are the daily rigors of life that you do not think twice about. However, sometimes you have experiences that are not part of your average day, and those are the experience, I believe you learn the most from. One experience that has contributed the most to my development since I have been at West Point is the investigation into the lacrosse team last year. While I was not involved in the investigation, I experienced the effects and aftermath of the investigation. One way it affected my development is that it made me truly understand the impact leaders have on a group.
dr. Groopman is a Harvard graduate; he narrate his first encounter with an emergency case in the very first day of his intern year. although he was a bright student, he was taken unawares by his patient sudden twitching while he was talking to him. he didn’t know what to do with a suffering patient, he froze in his tracks as his mind went blank. it was until a senior doctor showed up by coincidence to take control of the man in distress. he mistook as he stood there without asking for help.
He bounced up, shakes hands, and maybe even thanks the doctor. The reader is left pondering what invaluable blessing it is that the speaker feels he has quite recently gotten. There is something extremely abnormal about this misleadingly straightforward, truthful poem. The doctor ought to put forth encouragement, yet it appears that the patient is more touchy and mindful than the doctor, who is a sympathetic yet unoriginal man of science. The speaker understands that the doctor feels awkward in that
My father grew up in Vietnam, where resources are insufficient and health cares are neglected; therefore, having access to medications has misled him into thinking any illness can be treated with medicine. As I translate to my father the pros and cons in taking medicine, I felt great pleasure knowing that I have left an impact on my very own patient through the information I delivered. My eagerness of wanting to replicate the gratifying feeling enhances me to work harder towards becoming a
Academic success to me is achieving good grades and understanding the material to get good grades. Academic success also means to have an good attendance. I already get mostly A’s and B’s, but I am not good at staying on top of things. To improve my academic success I will attend class more often, be more organized, pay attention in class, and not procrastinate.
At first, he’s finding difficulties on how to treat his patients but one day, he discovered a way to
Being a teacher is a journey that has much to do with learning about yourself and being aware that what happens in your classroom reflects only on how are you with yourself. Teachers are not conscious that they project into students, and that affects how things go in the classroom. I believe the first characteristic of a good teacher is that he/ she is always willing to analyze his/her teaching performance. Second the teacher is humble enough to receive input about the development and application of techniques, learning from it and improving.
Life had an unusual way of helping me realize my passion, which I discovered in an unlikely place: a military airfield hangar. I was working for a military program, providing non-medical counseling to service members. My experience until then had consisted of working with at-risk youth. I was in unfamiliar territory, but as a military spouse, I’d learned to be flexible when it came to employment. I’d been on the job for 4 weeks when I received a call from the base chaplain that an airman had died by suicide.