...Treatment as Viewed by Main Characters Cancer is the tuberculosis of our generation. Movies, books, poems, and music industries are consumed by this epidemic. The illness can affect anyone at any time due to its roots in DNA mutations. The mutations in DNA code for mutated proteins and therefore alter the use and lifespan of each cell and tissue type. Cancer at its simplest form is shown as an excess of cells dividing out of control. Cancer comes in all forms and ways. The most common cancer types include: breast, ovarian, skin, lung, and colon. The main character in The Fault in Our Stars has thyroid cancer which has metastasized in the lungs (Green 11). Levine’s Adam in the movie 50/50 has a lesser known cancer, spinal cancer. Even though each cancer is different, they are treated in relatively the same ways. Cancer requires extensive treatment. Different types of cancer require different types of treatment. Chemo-therapy is almost required to treat the physical problems. However, various supportive therapies and groups treat the emotional problems associated with cancer. Some of these include: depression, apathy, anxiety, confusion, and anger. Both The Fault in Our Stars and 50/50 concern not only the physical treatments cancer patients undergo, but also the emotional treatments associated with a cancer diagnosis. John Green’s Hazel is a teenager living with terminal cancer. She calls her life a “miracle” due to the fact she was revived on the cusp of death (Green...
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...etterman SOC 324 Extra Credit The best reading of section three I would choose would be “Whose body is this Anyway”. This article by C. Jacob Hale explores the idea of the importance of genitalia in the Transgender nation as well as the larger society. I consider this reading to be very interesting and defiantly eye opening to the transgender community. Being transgender means different things to different people, there's no one way to be transgender, and no one way for transgender people to look or feel about themselves. I think what really brought my attention was when talking about mental disorders, because you can't address a mental health issue with surgery. Going on to say, one cannot help but feel for those individuals who for whatever...
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...hirtransition, allowing the individual to continue living his or her life in a body congruent with his or her gender expression. The psychiatrist’s recommendation for SRS and hormonal treatment is imperative in the process and this paper will examine the ethical implications of the essential causal diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and the recommendation of surgical treatment in order for patients to fit into the Western gender binary. A brief examination of co-morbidity of mental disorders and their affect on consent and provider views on competence and capacity are also warranted. Adolescent transgendered patients under the age of eighteen experience more difficulties with the sex reassignment process due to emerging autonomy and complications with adolescent assent, consent, and parental permission.The physician's consent has more weight in the absence of parental permission and in many cases transgender foster children and homeless teens must rely on recommendations from physician and mental health professionals.A discussion of the use of puberty-blockers in...
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...Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal is about experiences he learned from while being a doctor. In his final chapter, “Courage,” he discusses the idea of death and how some of his patients and family went into it. As Gawande discusses the stories and emotions he shared with these people, he explores the idea of narrative medicine that Rita Charon discusses. Rita Charon is a physician that practices narrative medicine in her practice. In her Ted Talk, “Honoring the stories of illness,” Charon presents the idea that we, as doctors and caregiver, should act as if the patient is more than their illness. Instead of treating just their physical illness, helping them understand and process it, as well as helping their mental health, are just as important....
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...Introduction i. Adams, Mike. “Exclusive Interview with Billy Best.” ii. Personal Narrative II. Body A. Background Information iii. “Carcinogen.” Wikipedia. iv. “Cancer.” Wikipedia. B. Opposing Perspectives v. Schorr, Andrew. "Interview with Amie Blanco: Hereditary Colon Cancer." vi. Joe Chemo. Image. vii. Phillips, Gavin.“Interview with Dr. Burzynski.” C. Thesis + Support viii. Holistic vs. Medical treatment: medical treatment seems to be a better shot at surviving. ix. Kelly. “Adenoma/Glioblastoma multiforme/Anaplastic astrocytoma/Glioma Cured.” x. Cousins, Emily. “Life after Treatment Can Be Almost As Hard as the Chemo.” xi. Messoria, Josie. Personal interview. 15 November 2012. III. Conclusion xii. Personal. Abstract In this essay the author discusses cancer, what causes cancer, holistic vs. medical treatments. The first part of the essay the author presents a piece of an interview conducted with a young cancer patient who was going against the grain and refusing treatment. The essay then goes into a personal narrative on how the author feels about cancer then from there goes into a great descriptive paragraph about cancer and carcinogens. Her thesis is clearly surrounding the argument whether or not holistic or medical treatments such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are ideal in treating/curing cancer. She explains that there...
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...relevant in the industry. Plastic surgery is one method in which celebrities have adopted to make their bodies perfect. Body image has always been a very contentious topic. There is a particular stereotype of body image that is often associated with celebrities, especially women. This narrative has particularly been emphasized in Hollywood where famous personalities are supposed to look a certain way for them to be successful. Women are supposed to be thin, have enormous bosoms and derrieres with their body figures depicting that of the hourglass. Men, on the other hand, are supposed to be tall, have a six-pack, a five o’clock shadow and other attributes. Beyoncé in her song Pretty Hurts highlights this when she says “blonder hair, flat chest, TV says bigger is better, south beach sugar-free, vogue says thinner is better.” Celebrities who do not have these features often go to great lengths to attain them; most of them result to plastic surgery where they alter their appearance to be perfect. Reality star Kim Kardashian who stars in keeping up with the Kardashians is a celebrity who admitted to getting fat injection in her butt to have her butt to be big. She has undergone several procedures for her to look a certain way. She has an extensive social media following and a fan base that is spread across the world. Kim is however famous for enlarging her butt, and due to this, there has been an increase in the number of patients who come to plastic surgery clinics and tell doctors that...
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...child's wheelchair and/or presence of personal assistant or nurse. Ronit also, spent 7 years practicing in the foster home/adoption field. She worked with prospective adoptive parents during the time they meet the child they decide to adopt from the foster care system. She utilizes a brief systemic model of therapy. In her approach, the client is the expert and we work with the strengths and resources the client already possesses. In this approach (solution-focused therapy is one model of systemic therapy she uses), she and her client’s look at what has worked in the past and what was the client doing differently to achieve these exceptions when the "problem" was not present or controlling the client's life. A very similar model is the Narrative approach (client and therapist discuss an "ideal future" and look for the "unique outcomes" when the problem is not so present in the client's life. In this model, metaphors are used during the conversation. In solution-focused...
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...Madison Davis English Mrs. Petersen April 14, 2015 With the dawning of television, celebrity boundaries began to blur. In much the same way as if you were to remove partitions in a room where two distinctive social situations were taking place, television presented different groups of people with new perspectives of other groups that they otherwise would have never been introduced to. As television became widespread, groups began to mingle together due to the easily accessible and widespread programming, and the population combined. Although fame could be thrilling, losing all of your privacy, due to paparazzi, not only threatens your safety and sanity but creates unneeded drama and predominantly false accusations. The more refined television became, the more the world seemed to resemble direct interactions and para-social relationships formed (Meyrowitz, 1985). Television users rapidly began to feel as though they personally knew television personalities and cared about them in the same manner they cared about their close friends or family. Horton and Wohl stated that television never shows an ending that exhibits the actors coming out of their character, which often leads viewers into believing that what they view is truly the actors’ identities (Horton & Wohl, 1963). This perception created opportunities for photojournalists to capitalize on actor public engagement. Carl O'Connell stated. The origin of the name Paparazzo is argued, but its onomatopoeic resemblance...
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...ARTICLE IN PRESS Social Science & Medicine 58 (2004) 1647–1657 Understanding breast cancer stories via Frank’s narrative types Roanne Thomas-MacLean* Dalhousie University Family, Medicine Teaching Unit, Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, P.O. Box 9000, Priestman St. Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 5N5 Abstract While breast cancer narratives have become prevalent in Western culture, few researchers have explored the structure of such narratives, relying instead on some form of thematic analysis based upon content. Although such analyses are valuable, Arthur Frank (The Wounded Storyteller, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995) provides researchers with an additional means of studying stories of illness, through the examination of their structures. In this article, the author applies Frank’s work to a phenomenological study of embodiment after breast cancer. Frank’s three narrative types are used to enhance understanding of the ways in which stories are culturally constructed, using data collected through one focus group discussion and two in-depth interviews with each of 12 women who had experienced breast cancer. The author then conveys the significance of this form of analysis for future research. r 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Breast cancer; Qualitative and narrative Introduction Frank (1995) writes that those who are ill ‘‘need to become storytellers in order to recover the voices that illness and its treatment often take away’’...
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...Video Games and Health ITT Technical Institute It’s easy to see the appeal of the video game. They allow us to do things that most people would never have the chance to experience, or something that’s flat out impossible. From the roar of a massive v-12 engine in a Ferrari, screaming down a straight at 230 miles per hour, to the rat-tat-tat of a heavy machine gun, complete with the imagined scent of cordite and powdery, obliterated dry wall, or even directing stalwart troops across a decimated sci-fi battlefield, there’s nothing quite like the visceral experience of a well-made video game. I’ve plummeted feet-first through Earth’s fiery atmosphere in a vessel no bigger than a phone booth with blue and purple iridescent plasma-bolts exploding inches from my head. I’ve experienced the elation of besting a massive, scaly, fire-breathing dragon in single combat that had just burned down an unfortunate village. The experiences that these games give us are just not available anywhere else, to such an interactive extent. However, therein may lay a problem. It is an undeniable fact that videos games can have an addictive quality to them, due to the escapism they provide. Wherever one looks, there seems to be someone engrossed in the latest action-adventure game, whether it be on a handheld device such as a smart phone, or on an enormous flat screen television that uses more electricity than Rhode Island. We have more leisure time in today’s society than in any other time in...
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...Brandy Shields Mrs. Knutsen ENC1101-83 16 April 2014 Chronic Pain: Curable or Not Abstract Chronic Pain is an interesting problem in society today. The exact cause of Chronic Pain is not the same in every patient. In fact most patients present with different symptoms and associated pathologies, such as the strong link with depression. Treatment of Chronic Pain is often performed a single practitioner whether that be a Medical Doctor, Chiropractor, Nutritionist, or an alternative health care professional. Chronic Pain is often extremely complex, because of this treatment needs to be multidimensional. Effective care of Chronic Pain requires the collective cooperation of health care professionals Chronic pain is an increasing problem affecting society today. Chronic pain is a complex condition that affects 42 million-50 million Americans, according to the American Pain Foundation. A recent market research report indicates that more than 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain and that approximately 3- 4.5% of the global population suffers from neuropathic pain, Despite decades of research, chronic pain remains poorly understood and notoriously hard to control. A survey by the American Academy of Pain Medicine found that even comprehensive treatment with painkilling prescription drugs helps, on average, only about 58% of people with chronic pain. The frequency of pain has a great impact on business, with a recent report by the Institute of Medicine (Medicine) ...
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...highly unlikely stories of adventure and escapes and being one of the most notorious liars in the century. In 1737 as a German soldier, he served in the Russian–Turkish war and returned with exaggerated stories of adventure. Every evening after supper in the banqueting-hall he would gather his friends and those in attendance and tell stories of his past. He loved the attention he received from the stories he would tell.His stories were so extreme and extravagant that an author named Rudolph Erich Raspe, who was seeking refuge in England from the German law, decided to write about the adventures of Munchausen.The first edition of Munchausen's tales that was attributed to him appeared anonymously in 1785 and was called Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. Gottfried August Burger edited the first German version the following year. Rudolph Erich Raspe never claimed his rights over the success from his books. Some still debate whether Raspe or Burger actually published the first book about the tales of Baron von Munchausen. Munchausen’s tales are so outrageous; many of the stories attributed to him have appeared in French, Spanish, Welsh and Greek literature. (Heritage, 2013) Today his name is known for boasting, fabrications and exaggerated stories. Definition In 1951the name Munchausen made its way into healthcare by Dr. Richard Asher. Because of the correlation between Baron Munchausen’s fictional stories and the exaggerated and made up...
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...in order to make himself recognized is heroic one despite realization that he belongs to the underdogs and there is no hope. His struggle is rather a hope against hope, yet he knew that "life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community" (132) in which case he belonged to Indians, a Sokane Community in which he was raised. When the novel opens, he starts with his mental disabilities how he suffered from "cerebral spinal fluid" (2). Despite suffering these diseases, having developed several disabilities, acute consciousness of his own deformed body, unsupportive background, poverty, Indian legacy of stubborn and dullard nature, he not only becomes truthful but also bitter. However, he becomes a paragon to struggle that he waged with the help of his friend, Rowdy, his teacher's advice Mr. P and his beloved, Penelope, and wins victory as an artist. Arnold suffers from mental disease for which he was treated. He was conscious that his "brain was drowning in grease" (3) and that he had had gone through a brain surgery. His next narrative for several pages is about his different diseases, disabilities and deformities as if he is belittling himself but actually it is the bitter truth that he is dilating upon himself. This is his background, his legacy, and his unsupportive background as he himself says that when at the age of fourteen "you are still stuttering and lisping, then you become the biggest retard in the world" (4). The conflict starts...
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...Effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, is an anxiety disorder that is developed after people are exposed to a horrific or life-threatening experience. Symptoms of PTSD may appear immediately or it may appear years later. Even though they may not be present for the traumatic event, family members and significant others such as spouses can be affected indirectly and can also develop certain behaviors. PTSD is commonly characterized by flashbacks and recurrent dreams; sudden irritability and outbursts toward another person without any obvious or known reasons; and restlessness or difficulty sleeping and concentrating. (Neeb, page 169) Traumatic experiences such as witnessing the death of a loved one, being sexually abused or assaulted, being exposed to a war, and being involved in a devastating accident can all cause PTSD. The likelihood of a person developing PTSD is based on the intensity of the trauma. According to the National Institute of Health, once PTSD has developed, women are more prone to experience chronic symptoms of this disorder compared to men. PTSD not only affects the person directly involved in the traumatic situation, but it can also affect people indirectly through exposure to a devastating event. I have recently experienced a very traumatic situation that had caused some early signs of PTSD. My cousin, John, was recently murdered in the comfort of his own home. His wife found him dead after returning...
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...therefore she has a moral right to choose what happens to it” (p.47). Kimport, Foster and Weitz (2011) indicate “women do experience negative emotions after abortion” (p.103). Abortion should be avoided because it causes some physical problems, leads to psychological health issues and takes away the feeling of motherhood from women. Abortion causes physical problems. Abortion causes emotion pain to women. Rousset et al. (2012) highlight “a traumatic experience that can lead women to develop a posttraumatic stress disorder” (p.507). Termination leads to chances of miscarriage. Asgharnia et al. (2012) assert “ectopic pregnancy has been rising because of the growing incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease, fertility drugs and pelvic surgery” (p1). An abortion has a negative effect on a female body. “Women’s breast tissue is left in a dangerously stimulated, are considered as risk factors for the development of breast cancer” (Costarelli & Yiannakouris, 2010. p. 38). Abortion increases the chances to have cervical cancer. “Abortion is associated with an increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer” (Braem et al., 2012, p.5). Infertility rate is increasing due to abortion. “Abortion increases apoptosis and decreases cell proliferation” (Meresma et al., 2010, p.6). In developing countries, the most common misconception is that contraceptives cause physical damage to the structure of the womb, so instead women tend to get abortions to safeguard themselves from any risks...
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