This story is about a woman who has a depressive disorder and she’s explaining what it feels like to us. She first talks about how you can’t easily just ‘snap out’ of depression and explains how she’s tried to get rid of it with the help of medication and specialists. Next, she tries to give us a description on what depression feels like to her – something like a black swap bubbling inside her chest: heavy, wet and with cloying ooze. She mentions about how she's holding the depression inside of her, and even if someone asks her if she's ok, she will say, “Yes, I'm fine,” and resists the urge to say, “No I'm not, please help me.” She then says that depression is different between each person, and everyone else has their personal share in experiencing it. She tells us why she wrote this message – for those countless number of people out there right now ashamed of their own suffering. She finally talks about how it’s possible to escape depression, not in death, but from help in other people; she says, “we can’t be afraid to ask for help.…
No words were able to come out of my mouth. Instead, there was a series of questions that came from her. She wanted to know why I was cutting myself;why I hadn’t come to her; and how long had it been going on. I told her that I was unhappy and ashamed of my skin. We sat in the car for about two hours talking and crying. I realized how much my actions affected other people. I also realized that the skin I live in will never change. My skin isn't anything that I should be ashamed of. On that day, I promised myself that I would never cut again. In order to keep that promise to myself I started a diary. Anytime I felt like cutting or felt down, I would write.…
“I wish you were never born”, my mother screamed across the living room. Mom was in one of her moods again, what was new. She has a way of making you feel like you couldn’t even understand. You didn’t know if you should run to her aid or go shut yourself in your room to get out of her hair. No matter what she made you feel it was always about her. I dealt with my mother’s selfish moods on a daily basis. I did not even come close to understanding this as a young child but always had an innate feeling that there was something seriously wrong with her. I would go back and fourth being pissed off to severely empathetic to her. I have always struggled with wanting a relationship with my mother; I love her and hate her all in the same breath. I can never recall one time in my life feeling like we were emotionally connected. I just want her to be sorry, and even more than that I want her to just recognize how bad it was. Ultimately more than anything I want to feel close to her. I don’t want to feel uncomfortable when she hugs me.…
* Accredited surgical technology programs that award a certificate or diploma are generally designed to take anywhere from nine to 15 months. Programs that offer associates degrees usually last two years and there are about 450 programs nationwide, according the the Better Business Bureau…
Surgeons operate on patients to treat injuries, such as broken bones; diseases, such as cancerous tumors; and deformities. During the course of an operation, the surgeon must make important decisions about the patient’s health, safety, and welfare. Additionally, the surgeon must work to ensure cooperation among the other members of the surgical team and make sure everything runs smoothly in the operating room. There are several settings a surgeon can work in: a private practice, academic medicine, institutional practice, hospitals, ambulatory surgery settings, and government service programs. Working as a surgeon can be very stressful and is not a job for everyone. To be a surgeon someone has to be intelligent, creative, courageous and a leader. Being a surgeon is a life long process and you must have discipline and be as flexible as possible. Its very important that surgeons seek out all opportunities to be in the operating room. Becoming a surgeon is a very lengthy process. It requires four years of undergraduate school, four years of medical school and 3-10 years of residency and fellowship training. John Hopkins University, Harvard University, Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania are some of the best colleges to go to, to become a surgeon. The average cost of education to become a surgeon is about $150,000-$250,000 or more.…
After being in her room for some time her thoughts are starting to get to her. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is so sad that she’s allowing her thoughts to get the better of her and she is not in a strong state to deal with them which will only cause things to get worse.…
My best friend has many problems at home, and with other people i know. I know she needs someone there for her, and she feels alone. But sometimes, she will just bring it out on me, with her words (usually to other people). Knowing this, we were sitting in my room watching netflix and when she got up to go to the bathroom i was still on her phone, i looked at the app called “notes” and saw some things about me ‘not having any friends’ (and more) but instead of telling her i read it, i decided to just let it go. I texted her a few days later about it, and she apologized about 1000 times. She said she didn’t write it to hurt me, but to let out some anger she was holding in her from some past experiences. It hurt me, but knowing her intentions made the situation way…
Science 2.0. (2012, March 5). Cool Future Tech: Heart Pacemaker Powered By The Heart Itself. Retrieved June 2, 2012, from Science 2.0: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/cool_future_tech_heart_pacemaker_powered_heart_itself-87637…
Surgical Technologist, also known as Operating Room Technicians, are part of the surgical team. They assist in surgical operations under the supervision of surgeons, Registered Nurses, and other surgical personnel. One most important aspects of many surgical technologists is learning how to prepare operating rooms so they are sterile, which helps lower the rate of infection in patients. Before surgery, Surgical Technologist helps prepare or setting up surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes, sterile solutions, assemble both sterile and non- sterile equipment. They may get ready for surgery by washing, shaving, and disinfecting incision sites, transport patients to the operating room, observe vital signs, help surgical team on sterile gown and gloves. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-surgical-technician-do.htm…
Surgery, though crude and painful, did exist in the time of the Renaissance. Early Renaissance surgeons were ignorant of the human body and surgical procedures were almost never successful. They were continuously trying to unveil the mysteries of the body. How and why it functioned, its purposes, and its needs.…
Personal face-to-face communication is and will continue to be the foundation of the patient- physician relationship. Electronic communication between caregivers and patient through telephones web-sites and e-mail are forcing medical staff and physicians to rethink the way they provide care to the patients, the accessibility to on-line health and wellness information. Home monitoring systems, personal health records, and on-line support groups is making it possible for society to take charge of their health (Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation, 2008). This paper will look at electronic forms of communication; new and old be used externally as a delivery source of conveying patient specific information, the impact of distance delivery on health care, the use of electronic systems to transfer records, and the impact of said systems today and a projected five years in the future.…
Ellis-Christensen, T. (2010, September 08). What are the advantages of electronic medical records?. Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-advantages-of-electronic-medical-records.htm…
To what extent did medical advancements during world war two impact the lives of soldiers?…
1. What are the key issues that Barbara Norris faces at the GSU? Why are they important to the organization?…
It's funny how life can be up one minute and down the next minute, and every time you try look at things in a posive way, there is always something that makes you realise that, no this is life and not everything is peaches and cream. Today I woke up feeling down and depressed but there was no reason for me to feel like that, so I did what everyone expects me to, I put a smille on my face and pretended like everyhing was fine, which it was. It was just me who wasn't, you may ask yourself why not just come out with it and tell someone what is really wrong with you or act exactly how you feel, down and depressed. Well see thet is not really that easy to do beacuse all my life I've always wanted to make sure that other people are happy and that I look happy to others so I wont have to bother them with my soapy sad stories of how sad I am and all the weird stuff that comes with it. I much better prefer it when people come cry to me than me cry to them because I taught myself how to be there for others as well as how to be there for myself so others wont have to worry or be bothered by me. Showing when I'm sad and angry and depressed is not reallly who I am or what I like to do, call me sellfish or a people's pleaser it really is fine with me because for as long as I can remember it's worked for me. And you know what the funny part is? As I started typing this essay I was down and depressed but now that I 've come to the conclusion I'm fine and myself again, and this is what I've been trying to say the whole time... I am my own…