Adrian Said:

How do I go about finding a Career in which I work with the dead?

We Answered:

Gravedigger sounds like a good profession for you

Esther Said:

How can I fix/ edit/ add to this essay to make it better?

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I had always been confused about my career, although I had always retained an interest in the medical field. Upon learning of this opportunity to explore the world of medicine, I decided to take my chances and see where this opening could take me.
I would like to have the opportunity to participate in the Kaiser Permanente Youth Work Preparation Program because I believe that this opening would help steer my career choice in the right direction. It would also allow me to get a first hand opportunity to pursue and explore the world of medicine.
Experiencing the medical environment and work force would allow me the opportunity to learn about the different health care positions and careers available in todays industry, as well as contributing to humanity. Working at Kaiser or in a hospitable atmosphere would expose me to the daily work environment in the medical field. Being exposed to doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and physical therapists at their best, and becoming familiar with the operations of a hospital or clinic on a daily basis would provide inequivical knowledge.
Working in a hospital environment would give me great insight and the ability to interact with patients; learning about their feelings toward their conditions, and increasing my comfort level with daily exposure.
I would also learn as I observe doctors diagnosing their patients with various ailments.
Having knowledge of the medical field through the eyes of doctors, nurses, pediatricians, and the like, I will not feel inexperienced providing clinical analysis and will be able to focus more on my work.
Working in a hospital surrounding would also allow me to learn about diverse and unusual diseases, enabling me to recognize the medical terms on enrollment to a medical school.
It would be enlightening to hear and learn about medical vocabulary and even medical slang, as well as the chance to confirm whether working in such a place is really right for me.
I feel this experience could open many doors, as well as provide a very promising future in medicine.



You should really clean this up and add way more.

Jean Said:

What are some good careers in science?

We Answered:

My aunt is a chemist for a large corporation in New York that makes fragrances for well known products and perfumes (she creates fragrances for products like Tide, Dawn, Calvin Klein fragrances, Suave products, etc.)

Shannon Said:

Medical professionals! Not urgent, but please help!?

We Answered:

Go to a University and ask the professionals there about medical careers...or to a hospital. It really depends on you and your interests. Do you want to help people, research, doctors without borders, surgery, plastic surgery...there are so many options and a lot of docs figure it out when they are in school.

Brenda Said:

Henry Armstrong had an unusually slow heart-rate?

We Answered:

It's not unique, but it is rare.

Take for example, the late great Mexican featherweight champion, Vicente Saldivar.

Saldivar was known as a guy who had an unusually slow heart rate. It was because of this that he was able to fight basically 3 minutes of every round and never once get exhausted.

Here's a clip of the Hall-of-Famer in action, in his third bout against Howard Winstone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GzdslTTQ…

I know that the legendary Harry Greb fought the last 5 years of his career with a glass eye.

Joe Frazier also fought with one eye.

Vivian Said:

Florence Nightingale - Do you know this lady with lamp ?

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale biographies, common questions about Florence Nightingale, information on nurses and nursing, bibliographies about Florence Nightingale, and other information on Florence Nightingale, the "Lady with the Lamp." Florence Nightingale made history with her nursing work in the Crimean War and helped shake up the field of medicine. Florence Nightingale's opinions on women physicians and her invention of the pie chart are included.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nighti…

Most biographies of Florence Nightingale attest that she became a national hero after dramatically reducing the mortality rate at the Scutari hospital during the Crimean war. But new research casts doubt on her role in transforming the hospital after her arrival in 1854. Official records show that by February 1855, the mortality rate had fallen from 60% to 42.7% and then, once a fresh water supply was introduced, it dropped further to 2.2%.

Recently historians have suggested the death rate among soldiers did not fall immediately but rose, and was higher than any other hospital in the region. During Nightingale's first winter there, 4,077 soldiers died, mostly of typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery. Ten times more died of these illnesses than from battle wounds.

The death rate began to fall six months after she took charge - only after a sanitary commission was sent out by Lord Palmerston to improve ventilation and clean out the sewers.
Nightingale had believed the mortality rates were due to poor nutrition and overworking of soldiers. But Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, claims an unpublished letter shows it was not until 1857 that she realised the conditions within the hospitals themselves had caused such a huge number of deaths.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REn…