Call the Doctor Essays

  • Literary Techniques Depicted In Faulkner's The Use Of Force

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    story “The Use of Force”, I have selected a quote in the story that shows that the doctor is beginning to lose his temperament and patience over a little girl who will not cooperate and open her mouth for examination. The quote says “Look here, I said to the child, we’re going to at your throat. You’re old enough to understand what I’m saying. Will you open it now by yourself or shall we have to open for you”. The doctor first shows signs of agitation from the parents in the 11th paragraph after the

  • Personal Narrative: Little Intellectual Disability

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    August 13, 2009, my mother was in the hospital giving birth to my baby brother, Michael. That day was a magical day for my family and I. After he was born, the doctor took my new brother to the back to run a couple of tests on him and make sure he is completely healthy. We waited patiently by my mother 's side as she began to rest. The doctor soon comes back in and says that he is fine to take home. We went home the next day and our lives were much happier with him in it. Michael was as beautiful

  • Head Trauma Case Study

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    heads. Ben went to the office because he was not feeling very well. My mom had received a call from the school about Ben and his accident. The office had called my mom and explained to her what had happened and insisted that Ben should be taken home. My mom was on her way to pick up Ben when the office calls her again and told her that Ben was nauseous and was being unresponsive. Immediately my mom calls 911 and sends them to the high school to take my brother to the hospital. They had taken Ben

  • Analysis Of Injustice In Out Of My Mind By Sharon Draper

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    behavior.  Adaptive behavior covers a range of everyday social and practical skills. Melody was wrongly diagnosed with an Intellectual disability by a doctor to see how smart she was to be put into school. According to the text the doctor said,” Mrs. Brooks…it is my opinion that melody is severely brain-damaged and profoundly retarded.” However, maybe the doctor was

  • Ethical Issues In Professional Sports

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    few months. She spoke with the doctor last Monday at her sports physical, and she told us that she thinks its runner 's knee. She said the cause is uneven distribution of muscular strength in the quads. As a rock climber she built strong thighs and upper body muscles, but her posterior leg muscles are not as strong and her calf muscles and hamstrings are tight. The other issue noted was the wrong kind of shoes. The shoes are to flat and lack support. The doctor said to purchase a really good

  • Personal Narrative: The Tragic Softball Game

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    starting. Afterwards, my mom and I were waiting for my dad to stop talking because he just never stops. My mom started screaming about her excruciating pains, and we, as a family, rushed her to the hospital. The next 12 hours were a living hell. The doctor walked

  • Dr. Onix Alternate Ending

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    the ominous painting hanging nearby. Besides the candles, and the paintings, and the desk, and the chairs, the doctor noticed nothing else in the vast room. It was just him, and realizing that he started to fidget in his seat. But the sound of footsteps coming out of nowhere startled him to ice. Wasn’t he alone? “Good evening, Dr. Onix,” the sound of a deep baritone unfroze the doctor and made him leap out of his chair. He quickly looked around to see a man standing in front of the painting, clad

  • Nurse Masks: A Short Story

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    his eyes. He is so close his nose is almost touching your nose. You can feel his breath when he says " We all have it in here. We are all infected". That’s it were all going to die if we don’t get some help imminently someone go and get a nurse or a doctor my eyes hurt really bad. Im starting to feel light headed someone help me please. Help is on the way someone replied. Here I m getting rushed to the hospital and all of a sudden I hear us stopping and the nurse puts on a nurse mask and goes to the

  • Six Flags Short Story

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    seen a show call “super guy.” He

  • Johns Hopkins University Personal Statement

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    time to apply for medical school and that the university as a whole would help cultivate me into an intellectual, contributing member of society. Although I am a man of many passions, spanning everything from guitars to politics, my drive to become a doctor is the most meaningful. A doctor’s lifestyle can appease all my other passions while at the same time afford me the pride of my family and the people I love. In the end, I want to pursue a profession that allows me to take care of the people I love

  • Personal Narrative: Childhood Brain Cancer

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    might not have children, get married, or even wake up tomorrow morning. My mother and I started noticing that she was having trouble walking, seeing and she was throwing up. My mom decided to take her to the doctor, and he suggested to have her get an MRI. Today we got phone call from our doctor stating that she had cancer. I was in complete denial, until I realized that I had I stay strong for my best friend and help her through this tough moment in her life. Riley is the spitting image of me. We

  • Nurse Ratched: A Short Story

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    The doctor continues with the operation and tells me “You have been quite disruptive and aggressive in the ward lately so we are going to fix that.” By fix that he meant by giving me a lobotomy to try and calm me down. He began by strapping me to some wires

  • Knockout Research Paper

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    It was a sunny day. Puffy clouds in the sky, birds were singing, squirrels playing in the grass. Everyone was enjoying themselves on this great Friday. That day was the day that the new version of my favorite video game was coming out. I was very excited, my friend also enjoys this game very much. Because of that, he was coming over to my house after school so we could try it out. It was going to be so much fun. I had just come from math class. We were heading to lunch, and I was super hungry. I

  • Brief Summary Of Blindness By Tim O Brien

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    Blindness Major Characters The doctor is struck blind after treating a patient that originally contracted the blindness. He is one of the first to be quarantined, along with his wife. Because he is a doctor, he has some level of authority within the ward. He knows that members of the ward look to him for leadership, and as such, he is cool-headed and calm in his decisions. He also relies on his wife to help him out since she is the one who is able to see. The doctor’s wife is the main character of

  • Edna Pontellier's Response Essay

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    have the taste of “life’s delirium”? p.54 What does Edna mean? Edna feels depressed after visiting the Ratignolle because the couple epitomizes the typical domestic household. Edna arrives to meet Madame Ratignolle sorting laundry clothes that Chopin calls “her occupation” (Chopin 55). After leaving the Ratignolle home, she is disenchanted with “The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her” (Chopin 56). Edna pities Madame Ratignolle because she feels that she will never to do all

  • Personal Narrative: Flu Shot Fright

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    When I went to the doctors and when had to get one it usually took 3 nurses to hold me down. They usually had to talk to me and tell me to calm down. I’d really freak out. It was probably because of the 1 nurse who told me it’d only hurt a little. Today however was going to be different. Although I’ll have to see some needles none will have to be used on me today. I am ready for the nasal spray. The year is 2013. It is an odd smell I remember; one that is a combination of a doctor 's office and some

  • Graduation Speech: Sterotactic Breast Biopsy

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    their stomachs, but because my biopsy would be close to the cleavage line I had to be sitting so they could see it. ) I hope at this point you know your birthday well because they will ask you about a million times. ☺ Next up is the extreme smoosh as I call it-it was like a mammogram on crack. They leave you there for the entire procedure and boy that HURT. Then comes the burning stinging of the Lidocaine used to numb you up. Oh and by the way, you are under no circumstances allowed to watch the procedure

  • How Surgery Affected My Life

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    getting ready for the surgery was long and complicated, especially since I had to wait till the school year ended because I would have missed over three months of school. After the actual surgery I was in bed all day and was unable to get up except for doctor appointments. During Thanksgiving break I had a very sharp pain on my lower back. At first I thought it was because I had been standing for so long.

  • Zero: A Short Story

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    It’s Friday, November 6, 2015 in St. Louis Missouri. At 7:15 pm, and Jace gets a call from Doctor Green. “Start heading over to barn lot right now!” said Doc. “Why? What do you want to show me?” said Jace. “Just come over here and you’ll see.” said Doc. Jace hopped on his bike and started heading to Docs barn. It was about a 10-minute bike ride from Jace’s house to the barn. When Jace arrived all he saw was Doc in his barn with a tarp over something. Doc said, “Jace you and

  • Personal Narrative: Dr. Sieglinde Peterson

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    what it does, it helps to know that I can turn to someone who is educated in that area: Dr. Sieglinde Peterson. Peterson specializes in Family Medicine and currently practices at Fairview Clinics in Chisago City, MN. If you are looking for a quality doctor she is an excellent choice! This woman is a wonderful example of what a professional in this field should be. Her display of professionalism, selfless character, and interest in her patients forms her into a well-rounded human being who has devoted