My personal qualities that will make me successful in pursuing osteopathic medicine include being compassionate‚ a good communicator‚ and being able to cooperate with others. Wanting to strengthen others through their health has always been the central drive to my pursuit towards medicine. I have demonstrated that I am compassionate through my volunteering efforts. I spent a lot of my time on the transplant floor at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Reflecting on how I was as a child‚ I was sure
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My exposure to being a patient‚ my experiences‚ and the desire to help others are the attributes that drive me to be an osteopathic physician. Specifically‚ I am inspired to pursue emergency medicine focused on rural areas. At the end of my military deployment to Iraq in 2011‚ I started developing a variety of unexplained symptoms. The military sent me to an assortment of doctors in different specialties‚ but no real explanation was found. Since the etiology was unknown‚ my doctors focused on
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To learn more about osteopathic medicine‚ I shadowed Dr. Stern‚ D.O. He also graduated from Des Moines University. My shadowing experience exposed me to physical exams‚ taking medical history‚ and writing HPIs. I also learned more about patient interviews along with osteopathic manipulations to heal small injuries. Dr. Stern was very informative on how a D.O. conducts patient interviews and treat patients as a whole. He taught me to listen carefully to patient’s concerns. For example‚ he talked about
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I was first exposed to Osteopathic medicine in 2009 when I attended the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine and was selected to visit UNE COM. There‚ I was introduced to what I feel to be the many benefits of an Osteopathic education‚ the first one being the importance of making patient contact. According to the medical student presenter‚ Osteopathic medical schools pride themselves on having medical students actually touch people (other medical students at first) early in their practice
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attend Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine-Biomedical Sciences program is to further strengthen my foundational science and research knowledge. Additionally‚ I strongly believe this will be an opportunity to prepare for entry and humbly prove that‚ I will be a successful candidate for a Doctor of Osteopathic Program at any school; preferably your distinguished Osteopathic Medical School. This is to achieve my unwavering goal to pursue a career in Medicine and Research. Growing up poor in
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didn’t respond with “Doctor.” Through exploring that medical interest by shadowing a variety of practitioners—allopathic‚ primary care‚ and allied healthcare providers—and realized my passion for a combination of all three in pursuing a career as an osteopathic physician. Throughout my time in a pediatric office‚ the doctor was in the midst of a grueling child neglect trial‚ testifying as a witness. When two brothers began showing increasingly evident signs of malnourishment‚ combined with sporadic appointment
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but one thing they did differently was their medicine. They first believed that disease was caused by demons and that Asclepius could cure diseases(quatr). So the doctors thought that they could cure patients through sacrifice and prayer(quatr). They would model the diseased body parts so they could be offered to Asclepius. However‚ by the 5th century B.C.E. doctors started trying a more material approach‚ they started using medicine. Greek medicine is based on Medicatrix Naturae which means that
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health and illnesses‚ like the day and the night these happenings are inherent in everyone’s life cycle. It is silver lining that there are noble people who work all their lives to mitigate the sufferings of the others. Among them‚ the profession of medicine is perhaps most respected for their service to society. My desire to become a doctor dates back to when I was in Preparatory School. Although as a young child‚ I did not quite understand what doctors essentially do. My desire heightened by the
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Brittany Schwartz Professor Peters 5.9.12 Schwartz 1 Are the affects of Metaphysical Medicine successful in Medical Practice? Traditional medicine has become a victim of its own success. It is a fascinating story that parallels the development of science in the Western world since the time of Newton‚ Galileo and Descartes. However‚ as medical science proved its effectiveness in treating the human body‚ the mental and spiritual aspects of healing fell by the wayside. The reincorporation of
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Topic: Personal Opinions – Herbal Medicine Before western and modern medicine‚ herbal medicine was used to cure almost every kind of sickness in a natural way. Herbal medicine enhances the biological natural healing ability of our body‚ so that the recovery process gets accelerated and the body is able to maintain an ideal internal environment that is crucial for such recovery. A lot of herbs work by stimulating various glands so that appropriate hormones are activated. These hormones carry the
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