Day 4: Ethics of Human Experimentation

I've heard of the Tuskegee Study before but never quite knew what it was about aside from testing on poor African American minorities. Watching the movie (Ms. Eva's Boys), however, opened my eyes (and made them tear up as well) to a side of the American history in human experimentation that I had not known about. After watching the movie, Dr. Epright lead the discussion on the ripple effect that the Tuskegee Study caused in minorities, especially African American's, distressed in health care professionals. It certainly makes sense that the sense of distrust would be there but who would know that it would affect organ and blood donations. Ironically, after the revelation of a study like the group now that is the most studied are white males.

Note to self: set a reminder in 31 years to get a colonoscopy. The side effects of not doing so could be dire and include $500-700,00 in treatments. Not something I would like to worry about when I near retirement. Something else that I won't be forgetting now is that March is Colon Cancer month. I didn't know each month was assigned a disease... I guess I should look up what they all represent (f.y.i June is apparently National Ice Cream Month, pretty sure Wikipedia wouldn't lie about that).

After listening to the mornings speakers it was time to tour the hospital and find out where to grab our scrubs. This made me extremely excited as I cannot wait to shadow in the OR and orthopedic trauma. Im fairly familiar with the hospital layout form volunteering in Patient transport but when we went to the basement we saw these cute little robots wandering around. I never knew the hospital had these!

After all the fun stuff in the morning it was finally time for the fitness test. I dreaded this from Tier I but overall I didn't really change much in my scores. I always wonder why they make us do the fitness test aside from raising awareness for our health and I think its psychological; when they make us all suffer together it makes our Tier bond more. I'll definitely try to use the gym more throughout this month to improve my scores!

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