Thin Slicing Research Paper

Ray Bradbury’s short story “A Sound of Thunder” shows us that a small mistake in the past could cause huge uncontrollable change in the future. Eckels traveled back to the area when dinosaurs were living. He did not listen to his guide’s warning and stepped on the ground of the past. He brought a dead butterfly back to the real world without noticing. Because of this, they found the current world was different. Even the grammar had changed. After Eckels went back to the current world, he found a sign was different from the one they had seen before they left. He realized he brought a dead butterfly back. He was shocked, “Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead. ‘Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!’ cried Eckels” (Bradbury 10). He found the reason why the world had changed. It was because of a small, beautiful, dead butterfly that was under his boots. He did not want to accept this fact. He kept denying what happened with

Imagine being 5 years old and in an emergency room or doctor’s office, with no idea of what’s going on. The doctor’s keep running test, your parents are crying, and all you can do is lie in the bed. No one is taking the time to stop and explain to you what is going on. That is when a Child Life Specialist steps in.

Dr. Seuss once said, “a person is a person, no matter how small”. Children are often looked at as properties of parents and our caretakers instead of actual human beings. Often time’s people mistreat and under nurture their children because they do not see them as equal human beings. Some parent/caretakers over nature and over care their children. In a world where so many things are often happening to everyone people are often misinterpreting medical problems with signs of abuse.

Today, many laws are trying to limit parental rights in the medical decision making of their teens. What would happen if the child makes the wrong decision? Parents have full on custody and are financially responsible for their child until the child is eighteen. Dr. Stacey Berg (2015), a professor of Pediatrics and medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine, declared that “Not much happens right when you turn 18, but in the eyes of the law you 're allowed to make really bad choices for yourself if you want to"(Leonard, p.1). Teen are not capable in making such decisions on health. Adults only want what 's best for their children and to teach them properly how to care for themselves. Parents should have a say in their child’s medical decisions.

Over time, research have shown that children are exposed to many encountering diseases, illnesses, and injuries. Intedning to a healthy child can be difficult sometimes, which is why pediatric care is needed. The study of medicine has evolved for centuries, creating new diagnosis and treatments. Pediatrics and other medical specialists are able to do this by the help of technology and tests.

In his piece, “The Learning Curve,” Dr. Gwande explores the importance of practicing in order to learn a task. He also highlights the moral problem that accompanies practicing on patients.

During the Sixteenth Century, or the fifteen hundreds, medicine and hygiene were not nearly as popular as today. They also did not know the importance of having good hygiene. I will first tell you the basics about Shakespeare. You may be asking, who is Shakespeare. That’s fine, you may not know . Black Death was a horrible disease, wiping out much of the human population during that time. It wiped out nearly sixty percent of the population in European countries or hundred million people. They had hardly any to no idea what it was, let alone where it had came from. This led to many of them dieing. Keep in mind this would be a hard time, even without sickness going around so common. What would you do if doctors were not nearly as experienced

In modern medicine an alarming trend is emerging, many patients and the public are developing a negative association with health care practitioners for their lack of compassion. Unfortunately, there is truth behind these claims. Now the question is why? Why do patients feel like a chart, instead of a person? No one suffers the rigors of medical school because they don’t care for people. So what happen to the funny, understanding, and caring doctors? What happen to the compassion? Medicine is defined as “the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease”. However, medicine is not exclusively an application of science, but is a combination of science and human compassion. Compassion is critical, because illness interacts with multiple accepts of human nature. The medicine may take care of the physical, but the compassion deals with the mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of illness. Nevertheless, with combination of stress, long hours, pressure, and endless patients, health care providers tend to suffer from a condition called compassion fatigue. The condition of compassion fatigue, which has largely been overlooked until recently is a direct contributor to the decline of patient care by health care professionals over the course of their careers.

YES! People make mistakes,its called being human.Men are given the nature of human,because there is a reason god is called the almighty.Since no man is perfect in this world ,it is evident that a person who is skilled and has knowledge over a particular subject can also commit mistakes during his practice.

Influence of Psychological, Social, and Biological Factors on Behavior and Perception Is the way a person interacts with the world around them a conscious decision or are there subconscious factors we do not even realize? Psychological, biological and even social factors control how people think and respond and they might not

One may disagree with these reasons, however, and say that it is not justifiable for a doctor to withhold information from their minor patient in any case. For example, children may hear whispering or talk surrounding them and know that a secret is being kept. According to Cole & Kurdish (2013), research shows that “withholding information may result in the child’s imagining a worse scenario or a least a different scenario.” This imagined situation could then create the same anxiety and depression that withholding the information was intending to prevent. Also by withholding the diagnosis, the child is prevented from participating in therapeutic resources such as support groups or cognitive therapy that could help them cope with the disease much more completely and quickly than a child who has been denied access to these resources. Even though the physician and parents may have had the well being of the child in mind when choosing to withhold the information, they are actually unintentionally harming the child’s emotional development even further.

The American Nurses Association states that an effective nurse leader inspires others around them by helping achieve fellow nurses to reach their highest potential in patient care. The leader I observed, E.E, is one of the charge nurses of the emergency department. The charge nurse is constantly performing several different tasks on the unit, sometimes simultaneously, that are utilized through delegation, prioritization, coordination and decision-making.

For the past two years I have had the opportunity to volunteer in the cancer centre at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. My first experience at the hospital was a holiday children's party. This party was catered toward children who were in the midst of getting cancer treatments or who were affected by someone with Cancer at the hospital. That day, I had the privilege of taking the minds of innocent children and bringing them to a happy place where their medical disadvantage didn't exist. Their faces glowing with delight after Santa Clause called their name to present each child with a personalized gift, was a gift in itself. Seeing children at face value who were experiencing such discomfort, or who were severally affected by individuals

Child Life Specialists understand the different emotional and cognitive stages of children, and can better prepare them and their family members for procedures based on developmental and cultural needs (Brewer et al., 2006). Several studies have shown that "children who received preparation, rehearsal, and supportive care were significantly less distressed and more cooperative" during procedures (Brewer et al., 2006, p. 14). Likewise, parents were more pleased with their hospital experience when questions were answered, misconceptions were alleviated, and attentive care was given. (Brewer et al.,

The Curse of Knowledge plays a big role in misunderstood communication between healthcare staff/physicians and their patients/family members (stakeholders), such as the case of the physician’s communication with Jesica’s family after it was determined that irreversible brain damage had occurred (Burns, Bradley, & Weiner, 2011). The Curse of Knowledge occurs when a communicator (sender of information - physician, in this case) begins to communicate a piece of knowledge to a listener (receiver of information - Jesica’s family in this case) that has no knowledge or understanding of what is being communicated. Medical terminology and explanations come from healthcare staff, such as physicians, nurses, and medical specialists who have been educated