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Arelle Valla on June 19, 2007
Our health ethics class in Medical school is very interesting, because we tackle ethical issues in the hospital. Like is Euthanasia ethical? Euthanasia is in lay mans term-mercy killing. What if a person is so ill and he doesn’t want to prolong his agony anymore, especially that he is just depending on a machine for his life, and he requests you to pull the plug for him so he could peacefully go?
There are so many angles to consider in making a decision where life is at stake, or even if its not a matter of life and death but concerns the health status of an individual. Especially when a Medical Professional is working in the U.S where law is tough unlike in third world countries, one has to give extra care and attention in doing anything.
Aside from ethics, the term “informed consent” is also something because here in the Philippines, not all patients or patients relatives are as inquisitive, sometime doctors are let to do anything and the patient doesn’t ask much and the doctor seem not to always explain too lol…
Unlike in the states, where people are more straight forward and frank who would always ask and really try to get to know as much as there can be learned before involving in a procedure ,like a patient considering a Washington DC Rhinoplasty would really go for a consultation where details of how the entire procedure would go is asked, risks and benefits are explained and so the patient or client can derive into an informed decision.
Btw, rhinoplasty is a procedure where the nose is surgically enhanced to alter its size or shape for aesthetic or reconstructive reasons.
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Arelle Valla on June 19, 2007
I love watching courtroom dramas. I am always impressed with the way lawyers think, how they prepare their cases, do research, conduct interviews, plan and everything, the works! On top of all that, what impresses me the most, is their ability to ask the right questions during trial, their minds seems to be running so fast, and are very persuasive in delivering their messages.
Like in one series I got to watch where San Diego Attorneys battle in the courtroom, the intensity just get higher as they exchange queries and able to successfully get witnesses to say what they want the judge to hear, I seem to forget I need to pee lol…
Kidding aside, in my high school consulting session with our Guidance Officer who evaluates grades and tests and suggests what to take, I was advised to become a lawyer…What stopped me is the need to memorize lol.. I remember having a hard time memorizing even just the preamble… so I let the idea pass.
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Arelle Valla on June 19, 2007
Actually having a name similar to your parent can have a huge impact on you. There is either favor or trouble, right? If you’re father is someone famous like Bill Gates and you’re name is Bill Gates, Jr. then that’s a tall order because the Jr. is expected to be like the Dad, whatever one say, comparing the Senior to the Junior is inevitable, would you agree?
Of course, being a son and name sake of a popular person has its benefits, as we know, but it can spell trouble too. If you are a Junior of someone notorious, then you probably want to change your name lol…
One thing I am sure, if your parent made you a Junior, like George Lindemann named his son George Lindemann, Jr., he has high expectation of you becoming just like him or better, and there is always an element of love and pride there.
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Arelle Valla on June 18, 2007
As a medical student, one of the lifestyle changes I have is giving up a lot of reading leadership books, sci-fi pocket books and celebrity gossip magazines (lol) in favor of serious devouring medical books and researching about it online.
And as a person who was in marketing most of my professional life, where ways revolved around talking and listening to people and establishing business and social relations more than researching medical stuff… I have to “google” almost every medical term I encounter from simple words like edema (which basically means increase of interstitial fluid in the organ) to tumescent liposuction, which is i found out in laymans term as a procedure where fats are removed by suctioning it out.
My new career shift is becoming an exciting experience as I learn the intricacies of the human body. I am just amazed how our body works, and even more amazed with the God who thought about it all.
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Arelle Valla on June 17, 2007
One of my school mates in medical school used to work in the States and she served as a care giver to a rich old lady who she says is very beautiful and young looking.
The lady as she relates is very nice, as long as you don’t wear any other color but white…lol… During her interview with the Lady’s children, she was already forewarned that you can only wear white in the home or even outside when with her. Even they as children would only wear white each time they come to visit her. For some reason accordingly, if a person is not wearing white, she tends to be irritable…hmmm…interesting isn’t?
Anyway, my school mate relates that all she needed to do in the house was to assist her and accompany her everywhere she went. There were cleaners and cook so she didn’t have to do any other work but take care of the lady. They would go to the grocery, do some shopping, go for a walk in the park, and did occasional visits to the Chicago facelift center, as she was contemplating on aesthetic make over…well, if one has the money, then staying beautiful and young looking is very achievable.
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