The medical field is broad and includes many more aspects than most people consider. This field is important to the world and will always be needed in society.
What people imagine the medical field is like:
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Doctors are the only ones with medical backgrounds, and doctor's offices/hospitals are the only place you will work if you go into the medical field.
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Reality of the medical field:
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Professionals with a medical background can have a variety of different jobs and careers. They are not just based in the hospital setting. Some other settings and careers in this field includes nursing homes, gym, schools, office, labs, etc.
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A big misconception that many people have about the medical field is thinking you are restricted to working in an office at a doctor's or in a hospital setting. Little do most people know, healthcare is a huge industry that is found almost everywhere you look. People neglect to understand that medicine is everywhere. Working in the medical field ranges anywhere from designing meal plans, helping safety test a car, etc.
- Biomechanics/Orthotics & Prosthetics
- Designing running shoes
- Manage health care supplies
- Design health care supplies
- Helping children with disabilities
- Teaching someone how to walk again after an accident
(Occupational Therapy)
Throughout this blog project, we have discovered many advances in the medical field that we would have never known of otherwise. For example, none of us had ever even heard of biotechnology until we read up on it during the blog project. Biotechnology is used in kinesiology to show 3D graphics of the patient’s body. They can see exactly where the patient is feeling pain, by seeing a different color in that specific area. We also have learned that if you have a small cold, working out can actually help it! We always thought that bed rest is the only cure, but who knew going for a run can help too? We have also learned about a new invention used during physical therapy called treadsence. Treadsense is a machine created to help increase and improve one’s balance while they are in motion. This invention has helped people learn to walk again while using a "webcam, treadmill, and a computer modeling of the human body" (CPH). Inventions such as this have helped society immensely while recovering from injuries, or just simply old age.
Something that was constantly discussed throughout this project was how the medical field is portrayed through the media. We found an example of this in the television show Grey’s Anatomy.
Grey’s Anatomy (examples)
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Real Life
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Sexual relations between coworkers and patients
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Doctors and nurses are required to sign a contract saying they will not form sexual relations with a patient and/or coworker
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Everyone does everything
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Realistically, this does not happen. It is very rare that people are not specific to one job. This is the purpose of specializing.
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Medical mishaps are a common recurrence
| Mistakes happen. On television and in real life. But on television they seem to occur far more often than they should. |
This blog project has taught us so much about our field. It has also shown us how important it is and it will always be in demand. It is applied in many different aspects that we, as bloggers, did not even consider. Ideas such as that exercise helping boost happiness and increasing performance of one’s immune system were learned through the project and help proved to us that research is constantly being done to find ways to help live a longer and healthier life. Such research is constantly being conducted that presents new ideas on improving life’s longevity and creating a healthier life. The medical field allows for growth in life and the opportunity to live it in the healthiest way possible. Although technology is growing, the physical person will always be needed, even just to provide comfort to the individual. It’s that physical contact that provides the comfort to a person who is in need that helps keep the medical field alive.
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