Author Archives: laurenburchh

I am interested in exploring how desensitized some practitioners become in medicine and how that affects treatment and the emotional state of practitioners. I do not know too much, but from my year and a half of experience in medicine, as a medical assistant for a surgeon, I have started to see how sometimes IContinue reading “Final Post”

One issue that has really hot and stuck me like most political issues is the ruling of Roe vs Wade. Rather than most women banding to protect our own rights I have seen almost this battle over social media of competing views. It hurts to see this in our community and I think most peopleContinue reading “Stories In The Media”

Though I am still continuing and in the last few pieces of my project before sitting down to take my national registry exam for my EMT license, I am so grateful for this experience. I have learned more knowledge to not only apply to my medical career but also to my everyday life. Preparing forContinue reading “Farewell to my project”

If I were to create a map of the spaces I typically inhabit on a daily basis, I would have to start with the medical office I work in Monday-Friday. The team I work with, we have our own pod which is made up of each of our workspaces and computers. Beyond that, there areContinue reading “My Space at Work”

My cultural environment in the medical world is a nice melting pot and collaboration between the many cultures I have come across in my time. In medicine there a very personal side, I think a lot of doctors lack, where you have to be more universally educated in the many cultures you come across andContinue reading “The many cultures of medicine”

Solidarity in my community is the collaborative effort put in by the emergency response teams all with the same goal, to put the care and safety of the community it protects first. This is most evident in a heavily populated college campus. I have observed from both ends, as a bystander and a part ofContinue reading “Solidarity in Emergency Medicine”

Some of the structural inequalities I have begun observing in my experience include those centered around financial restrictions. Unfortunately, a big part of medical practice and receiving proper care is centered around how much a patient can afford or whether they can afford the insurance that will cover such treatment. I have yet to seeContinue reading “Inequalities in Medicine”

My daily routine involves starting my day at 6am. The first thing I do is ensure my apartment and pet are taken care of for the day and will remain entertained and taken care of while I am away at work. I then go to work at Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic from about 7:30-3:00pm and amContinue reading “My Daily Routine”

I am currently remaining in Tallahassee and completing portions of my certification with online training, completing assignments, background checks, and paperwork. The information and the instructors I am currently working with have made the experience and transition to this online learning experience very seamless. Although being very used to this type of educational setting fromContinue reading “The Start of Becoming Certified”