Victor, a small 12 year old Chinese-Australian boy arrived home after a tedious day at school. He felt tired after a day of concentrating on linear equations and Chinese poetry. Little did he know that his world was about to change dramatically, a change that would cause him to make a decision that would impact countless amounts of patients with cardiovascular disease around the world.
Victor Peter Chang (Chang Yam Him) was born in Shanghai, China in 1936, November 21st to Aubrey Chang and May Chang. He was the oldest of three children. In 1938, when the Japanese was broke out, Victor and his family moved to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Victor attended the Kowloon Tong Primary School and continued his education at St. Paul’s Boys College. Then at the age of 12, his mum died of cancer. This heartbreaking event inspired him to become a doctor.
Victor was 16 when his father sent him and his sister to Sydney, Australia. In 1953 Victor finished high school at the Christian Brothers High School in Lewisham. Following his childhood aspiration, he commenced a Medicine and Surgery course at the University of Sydney. 9 years later,
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They got married on April the 20th, 1968. The couple had three children. After completing his training in London he moved America and obtained the job of chief resident at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. Victor, now a professionally trained heart surgeon, returned to Australia and the St Vincent’s Hospital in 1972. In 1973 Victor obtained a fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. At 49, Victor received the Advance Australia Award. He performed the first Australian heart-lung transplant only one year later. In that same year he was awarded Companion of the Order of Australia. In addition Victor was appointed as the Honorary Director of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Research-Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital,
Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was brutally beaten by two white men with baseball bats in Detroit during the summer of 1982. They had just lost their jobs in the auto-industry because Japanese cars were gaining popularity in America, and they had assumed Chin was Japanese. Chin died a few days later in the hospital due to injuries sustained during the attack. When the case was brought to court, the courts ruled that the two white men has simply been attempting to teach Chin a lesson, and the two men got off with a fine of a few thousand dollars and a couple years ' probation. This ruling was what sparked the modern Asian American civil rights movement in the United States. The information presented here is what I already know from multiple workshops I 've attended and led on Vincent Chin and his story. What I want to know is how much of this information should Wayne State’s faculty and students know? Telling and hearing this story multiple times, I personally feel that residents of Detroit should know about the spark of a revolution in their hometown, but should they really? My personal attachments the Vincent Chin story have led to pursue the attempt of answering this question.
Heart disease is one of the most common causes of the mortality and morbidity in most well developed countries. They come in different forms such as stroke and other cardiovascular diseases and it’s the number one cause of death in the state of America. In the year 2011 alone nearly 787,000 people were killed as a result of this epidemic. And this included Hispanic, Africans, whites and Americans. As for the Asian Americans or pacific Islanders, American Indians and the natives of Alaska, the concept to them was a second only to cancer. However, statistics has proved that a person gets heart attack every 34 seconds and in every 60 seconds, someone dies out of it which include other related event. Additionally, majority of the women are the
In his essay “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” John Locke makes a connection between memory and consciousness and called this connection the memory theory. The memory theory states that if “a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, [and is] the same thinking thing, in different times and places” then it is continuously the same rational being has a consciousness (Locke 1959). Locke ties the consciousness and memory together by saying that “as far as … consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action or thought, so far reaches the identity of that person”; meaning that if a person has memories of their existence and actions they are the same person. Locke connects the memory
All praises bestowed on her, I received as made a possession of my own. We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.” Victor attended Ingolstadt University where he studied modern science and was able master all of what his teachers had to offer within two years.
Since 1960 the age-adjusted mortality rates for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has declined steadily in the U.S. due to multiple factors, but still remains one of the primary causes of morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Greater control of risk factors and improved treatments for cardiovascular disease has significantly contributed to this decline (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). In the U.S. alone it claims approximately 830,000 each year and accounts for 1/6 of all deaths under the age of 65 (Weiss and Lonnquist, 2011). Based on the 2007 mortality rate data an average of 1 death every 37 seconds is due to cardiovascular disease (Lloyd-Jones et al., 2009). Controlling and reducing risk factors is crucial for saving lives. There are a number of contributing risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which may appear in the form of hereditary, behavioral, and psychological, all of which ultimately converge in social or cultural factors.
Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease, or CVD, is Britains biggest killer, responsible for 40% of premature deaths in Britain. CVD is a comprehensive term for several afflictions of the cardiovascular system - the heart and blood vessels of the body. These afflictions are Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis, Angina, Coronary Thrombosis and Myocardial Infarction and Stroke. Apart from the high mortality rate - it is estimated that CVD kills 140,000 people a year under 75 years old, chronic heart disease causes incapacitation, suffering and pain in many of it's victims. Much heart disease is also self-inflicted and therefore avoidable.
Chiang Kai Shek, who started out as military leader, built an enormous legacy that is tied around both China and Taiwan. Chiang was born on October 31, 1887, in a small town in Zhejiang province, China. Though his father died when he was at a young age, it never affected him, he continued to pursue in the military career. While in Japan attending the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, he devoted most of his time studying the work of Sun Yat Sen who was the leader of the nationalist party (Kuomintang) in China. After finishing his military training he joined the Kuomintang, where he worked under Sun. Sun sent Chiang to Moscow for further military training and appointed him to lead the Whampoa Military Academy. Soon after Sun died in 1925, Chiang took over and became the leader and president of the party. Chiang and the nationalist party continued to rule Mainland China until 1949, when they lost to the communist party in the Chinese civil war. Some historians may see Chiang’s legacy as a failure to create democracy in China and himself as dictator after taking full control over the leadership and presidency in Taiwan. However, other scholars see Chiang as the leader of democracy, as he attempted to unify and modernize China while in power. He unfortunately was defeated during the Chinese civil war and fled to Taiwan, where he brought democracy to the country. Chiang is an impressive figure that was able to reunify and lead a country that was recognized to be almost ungovernable, he had an extremely knowledgeable military mindset that was practically able to overthrow the communist party if the United States had continued to support, and most significantly he brought the system of democracy to Taiwan and modernized the country.
Today, cardiovascular disease is “the number one killer in the United States and the developed world” (Sapolsky, 2004, p. 41). Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common form of cardiovascular disease, and is responsible for claiming an unreasonable amount of lives every year. CHD can begin to accumulate in young adults, but is prominently found in both men and women in their later adult lives. As a result of CHD, men typically experience heart attacks, whereas women present with chest pains, known as angina (Matthews, 2005).
One of the leading causes of death in the United States is heart disease. “Approximately every 29 seconds one American will have a heart attack, and once a minute one American will die from a heart attack” (Ford-Martin and Odle, 915). According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine men over the age of 45 and women over the age of 55 are considered at risk for heart disease. Heart disease is a major cause of death. It is beneficial to individuals who seek to prevent heart disease to recognize the risks leading to heart attacks as they are one of the primary indications of developing heart disease; especially those that fall into the at risk age groups. These risks consist of some that cannot be changed such as heredity risks, or those that can change such as smoking habits. It is very important to know these specific risks for prevention and to understand the symptoms of heart attacks, such as sweating or the feeling of weakness so if these or other symptoms occur people are aware. Finally heart disease treatment is of vital importance if you experience a heart attack so you can learn how to prevent another one from occurring.
A heart attack can cause permanent damage to the heart muscle, and can sometimes be fatal if immediate treatment is not given. There are other contributing factors other than fatty deposits which can cause coronary heart disease such as high blood pressure. The focus of this quote is that this disease is caused by the person who has contracted it. However, this statement is not totally correct because there is evidence to suggest that heart disease can occur from uncontrollable circumstances; such as gender, heredity and age. In this essay I shall evaluate both controllable and uncontrollable circumstances for someone to suffer from coronary heart disease.
...y. Primary care physicians ask for the family’s medical history, which makes other disorders within a family seem like they can happen at any given moment. This causes people like Carlos to have fears about death and undiagnosed disorders. Carlos’ fear of heart attack, which happened to his cousin, is interfering with his daily life. Carlos checks his heart rate and blood pressure several times a day, which distracts him from his tasks at home and at work. Despite reassurance from his primary care physician, Carlos fears that his elevated heart rate at weird times is a sign of a heart attack coming on. Society also helps to feed into Carlos’ fears by broadcasting on media what percentages of people have had a heart attack this year and how to monitor your symptoms to see if your heart is healthy. Carlos has learned from society how to blow a fear out of proportion.
Victor was born on June 6th 1900 in Hohenelbe, Austria. He goes to school In Germany and graduates in 1916. In 1912, during the First World War, Victor is recruited as a Sailor in the navy and In April 1916, he is wounded and is discharged. Victor then gets
After doing all my readings, I have reach to the conclusion, that as many doctors say, the best way to avoid a heart attack is by taking the necessary precautions to prevent it. Regular check ups, a balance diet, exercises can decrease the risks of suffering a heart attack or any type of disease. Many people survive, but others do not have the same luck and die. After reviewing MI, I have learned the importance of preventive medicine.
Crumbie, A. (2007) Caring for the patient with a cardiovascular disorder In: Wash, M. & Crumbie, A. Watson’s Clinical Nursing and Related Sciences. 7th Ed. Bailliere Tindall Elsevier. London pg 244 – 324.
Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes are said to account for nearly two of every three deaths in the U.S. Though there is a possibility of these diseases being prevented with a healthy lifestyle, there is no way to actually prevent the onset and progression of these conditions. Sadly, young children are being introduced to these unhealthy lifestyles and taking them right into adulthood thus becoming walking billboards for the diseases. These diseases compromise health, shorten life expectancy, and cause enormous suffering, disability, and economic costs.... ... middle of paper ... ...