Category: Medicine
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Understanding medicine: why you should go to medical school?
Becoming a physician is no easy task, yet thousands of students try to get into medical school each year. The dream of becoming a healer is standard in every culture. Healers receive the utmost respect from their community because of their sacrifices to improve the suffering in this world. The amount of work they put…
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Understanding medicine: why you should not go to medical school
Medicine is not for everyone. Ego aside, you have to ask yourself why you want to attend medical school. After serving on the admission board for medical school and internal medicine residency, it is hard to believe that many people go into medicine for the wrong reasons. With the current shift in our healthcare system,…
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What happens during a heart attack? Is there a way to reverse coronary disease?
What do we know about heart attacks? The heart is an important organ that helps to provide blood flow in order to transfer adequate nutrient and oxygen to different organs in our body. Despite the current medical advances in the past few decades, that is, the development of medications to control blood pressure, cholesterol, and…
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Tissue Types- What is inside us?
Welcome everyone. Today I am going to talk about the tissue types found within our body. It is important to talk about tissue types because different disease target various tissues. For example, myocardial infarction, aka heart attack, targets cells within our blood vessels that ultimately affect muscles of the heart. By understanding how blood move…