Giesing's work as a great source as well as to complement, and or added more credibility to his book. Dr. Giesing was a far better doctor than Dr. Morell, they would use him in a sense to double check diagnosis Morell would give. Dr. Giesing was in fact the best doctor on his staff. He wrote notes in the diary as well as Morell, Giesing was renowned as the better doctor. "In 1936, when my circulation and stomach rebelled...I called at Morell's private office. After a superficial examination...Morell prescribed for me his intestinal bacteria, dextrose, vitamins, and hormone tablets." "For safety's sake I afterward had a thorough examination by Dr. Giesing and diagnosed me with something different."(189) Statements of that caliber adds to the credibility of Dr. Giesing, and also makes him a great resource.…
In Jeff Gremmels’s “The Clinic,” Gremmels attempts to solve the medical case of a fourteen-year-old boy who is brought in for stomachaches. The essay opens in an examination room by describing the patient’s physical condition. Gremmels proceeds to give a typical checkup to the boy, during which he discovers small bruises populating the patient’s body. Unable to determine the cause for these unfamiliar symptoms, Gremmels describes his examination to the attending physician. The physician identifies the symptoms as the result of self-mutilation caused by the boy’s depression, something Gremmels had not considered in his initial synopsis. The essay concludes with Gremmels reading a poem from a crumpled piece of paper, written by the boy during…
Bonebakker, V. (2008). Imagine what it 's like: a literature and medicine anthology. Honolulu, Hawaii: Univ. of Hawai 'i Press.…
great relief to my mind) –per haps that is one reason I do not get well faster” (597). This is, perhaps,…
Killborn, Peter T. “A Health Threat Baffling for Its Lack of a Pattern.” New York Times…
turned pale at the mere description and was on the point of being sick" (36).…
“Upset stomach”. Good historian, states that “I don’t know much about my parent’s health because they didn’t…
However, as I finished my second cup of brew, I noticed a shift from a relaxed state to an area that was slightly anxious. I visited use the toilet and located myself clumsily fumbling to flip the doorknob. I felt sort of a slug making an attempt to maneuver around the bar. I started to feel very dehydrated. I stuck out my tongue in the bathroom mirror and saw that my tongue had a layer of white…
“Already quite sick of what was then called consumption, and was later recognized as tuberculosis, a disease commonly of the lungs.…
One of the ways in which Henry’s use of alcohol to numb his physical aches is shown is in the conversation that Henry has with Miss Van Campen after he drinks himself into jaundice. Campen accuses Henry of cowardice by claiming that he does “not [want] to go back to the front” and thus, has inflicted “jaundice [on himself] with alcoholism” (Hemingway 144). Despite having some validity in her overarching idea that alcohol should not be used as a solution to all of life’s problems, Campen’s accusation that Henry gives himself liver disease on purpose is invalid. As Henry himself states, just as a man would not “disable himself by kicking himself in the scrotum,” he wouldn’t expose himself to a condition that matches that amount of pain, not when there are better alternatives (144). A more likely assumption is that Henry drinks so much alcohol to help him get over his physical struggles with his ruptured knee, which, as the reader observes by the fact that “[he] could feel it going in and out of the bone” by simply bending it, causes him a great amount of pain (83). Henry’s immediate relaxation from the pain after the hospital provides him a constant supply of alcohol shows that the alcohol does in fact help him greatly in coping with said pain.…
April 3rd: the days seem to just keep mushing together today is already raining and gets even worse because I’m sick as a dog. The doctor on the ship thinks that I might have typhus fever, I’m lying in bed now worrying that I may have made a bad decision, what if I never see my family ever again. We are in Bermuda and I can’t even enjoy the sight since the fact that I’m feeling like I’m dying inside. My symptoms are abdominal pain that is killing me and nausea that makes me feel so queasy and light headed. The doctor thinks I got this sickness because I was exposed to the rat’s feces and their fleas that crawl around on the ship. The doctor is saying that I should be moved to the guard…
The Vietnamese Boat people are refugees who have fled their country in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and especially Vietnam are referred to as “boat people” because they fled their respective countries. Refugees from these countries were fleeing shortly after the Vietnam War had ended. The Vietnam War was a cold war which took place from November 1st, 1955 until April 30th, 1975. On April 30th, 1975 was the day that the fall of Saigon took place, essentially this means that communists took power of the government. The Communist government set up “re-education camps” for people who still believed in the old government, in these camps 165,000 people died, 1 to 2 million people was imprisoned for no apparent reason when the communist government took over, no formal charges or trials were given. Furthermore, at least 200,000 southern Vietnamese were executed, and tens of thousands of Vietnamese people committed suicide when the communist government took over. Essentially, these countries became so poor they were unable to feed themselves and this resulted in famine which led to many deaths in the 1980’s. With all these occurrences it ultimately led to the destruction of Vietnam and caused many people to become refugees “Boat People”.…
divided.” The author cites Middleton (1995) that some believe the existence of the illness cannot be denied and…
Another physician, William Castle, also helped to cure the disease. In one experiment he ate liver, made himself vomit, and fed it to his patients. Oddly enough this strange idea worked. His unusual…
“The disease begins gradually: silent, like an animal stalking its night-time prey, it takes hold of its victim, and worsens with time.” (Buijssen,p15)…