Essays on Medicine Page 49

“NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, based in New York City, is the nation’s largest not-for-profit, non-sectarian hospital, with 2,242 beds” ( “New York-Presbyterian Hospital Uses Eclipsys”, 2009).The hospital provides state-of-the-art inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of medicine. New York Presbyterian is the number one hospital in New York and is consistently ranked among the…

Errors in medical intervention happen to over four hundred Americans every year and they can prevented; these preventable errors are one of the major causes of death in the United States each year. It fluctuates with the invent of new and improved medical simulations or medical treatment. The two major causes of death in the…

The physical therapists of today do much more than restore function to traumatized limbs. They work with children to overcome crippling birth defects and with stroke victims to restore movement and independent living. For post-operative patients, they are the link in the health care team that speeds successful recovery. Physical therapists prevent and treat athletic…

During this semester I interned at an outpatient physical therapy clinic in Yonkers, New York called Professional Physical Therapy. At this location we only had one Physical Therapist and 3 physical therapy aides. Throughout my time as an intern I had the opportunity to work hands on with a variety of patient. These patients had…

Ancient peoples were using iron as early as 4000 B.C.E. for making various tools, weapons, and other objects. They apparently obtained the iron from meteorites. The composition of those earliest iron artifacts was higher in nickel than native iron ores on Earth, in keeping with the composition of meteorites (Steel). In fact, the word ‘iron’…

Although I didn’t initially choose physical therapy as a career in healthcare, my true passion was discovered while applying to Drexel University for my undergraduate studies. While pursuing a major in biomedical engineering and aiming to design prosthetics and other supplies, I realized that engineering wasn’t the right path after being required to take AP…

I grew up in Alabama and had a natural love for football. Thankfully, I had the skills needed to earn a football scholarship at Wake Forest University. This allowed me to push myself against strong athletes and strive for academic excellence at a well-known school. The high-quality education provided by Wake was important to me…

What is there to debate? Several sources repeatedly convey similar information on the care that a physical therapist provides. The Handbook of Physical Therapy, written by Robert Shestack, Current Physical Therapy, a book by Malcolm Peat, and “A Future in Physical Therapy,” an internet publication by The American Physical Therapy Association, have notably parallel information…

Most spinal cord injuries have an almost immediate and devastating effect on the person’s motor control. These severe impairments result from the interrupted communication between the brain and spinal cord, which deprives the spinal cord below the injury of instructions from the higher-level executive functions in the body. Without the essential sources of direction and…

Physical therapy means treatment with physical agents. Physical therapy provides services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent disabilities of patients that suffer from injuries or disease. Therapists restore, maintain, and promote overall fitness and health. Their patients consist of accident victims and people with disabling conditions such as…