Healthcare

Success in Healthcare 101: Culture (Blog Post 2)

Imagine you are a physician caring for a dying patient. He is only 19 years old, and he will die within the next few hours if you do not conduct this blood transfusion immediately; he was in a terrible car accident and he is bleeding out. His…

Responses to Blogs

Note: I was unaware they needed to be submitted as my own blog and were only responses previously.

In Response to: “Avoiding Prejudice” by Garrett Weskamp

Yet again, I find your post extremely enlightening, informative, and descriptive of a…

How my community service experience relates future PAs.

Thursday morning I was up by seven am to beat traffic and arrive at St. Vincents Hospital by nine am. When I arrived to the warehouse I was unaware of where to go, who to meet, or what to do- th eonly thing I was aware of was that I…

Animation in Drug Advertising

Today, there are only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, the United States and New Zealand. Most of the drugs advertised on television in these countries require a prescription and many are quite expensive. In order to sell…

Every life is precious, so treat them like they are.

If you have been following my previous blog posts, you would know that the focus of my past posts were patients who had little control over their autonomy and how doctors should find a way to help these patients become eligible to…

Can Concierge Medicine Help the Poor?

When I look at the word “concierge,” I think about luxury apartment complexes / homes, upscale hotels, fancy restaurants, mega yachts, and private jets. Our culture almost exclusively reserves this word for the wealthier portion of the population — or should I…

PAs in the UK

The PA profession has made such a large impact that other countries are beginning to incorporate the profession into their healthcare system. The UK is one of theses countries, the profession however is called a physician associate rather than a physician assistant. Just by that simple name change the…

Getting ahead in a stiff market

When you think of the most successful and clever advertising campaigns in history, what products normally come to mind? Nike? Coca-Cola? Maybe Apple? If these were your thoughts, then you are probably right. However, there is one product right up there with those market…

Part 3

The method I used in each post reflected on my own personal experience working in a doctor’s office. In post one I utilized terms that reflects my knowledge today as an experience front office employee. The voice behind my second post required me to reflect back to when I first began as an intern without any…

Survival of the Fittest…Writing

It is the job of the writer to serve and write for their audience, and so it is the job of the writer to understand and know their audience. In my previous blog posts, I wrote for two entirely different constituencies. The first was very knowledgeable and experienced with…