Shomoi K. Francis March 3, 2011 Ms. Wright Chemistry 1 Patricia Bath Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, and the daughter of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Her father an immigrant from Trinidad was a newspaper columnist, a merchant seaman and the first black man to work for the New York City Subway as a motorman. She was raised in Harlem; Bath was motivated academically by her parents. Inspired by Albert Schweitzer, she applied for and won a National Science Foundation Scholarship while attending Charles Evans Hughes High School; this led her to a research project at Yeshiva University and Harlem Hospital Center on cancer that irritated her interest in medicine. I n 1960, still a teenager, Bath won the "Merit Award" of Mademoiselle Magazine for her contribution to the project.
During this time, she also developed a strong interest in philosophy after reading poetry and other literary works. Margaret became determined to study under James McKeen Cattell in the psychological laboratory at Columbia University following graduation from Vasser in 1891. Washburn was only admitted at Columbia as an auditor as that college had never admitted a female graduate student. After just one year at Columbia, Washburn entered the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, after the strong urging of Cattell. While she was a student at Cornell, she studied as psychologist E.B.
She went to medical school in the early 1960's and persevered against the sexism and racism to graduate and become an ophthalmologist, surgeon, and patients' rights activist. Dr. Bath was the first African American female surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. In the early 1980's she received a patent for a medical invention making her the first African American female doctor to do so. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for removing cataracts.
Martha Stewart owned shares of a company Called ImClone SystemIncorporated, which was founded in 1984, it is a biopharmaceutical companycommitted to advancing oncology care by developing a portfolio of targetedbiologic treatments designed to address the medical needs of patients with avariety of cancers. In 2001 ImClone received notification that a newprescription drug, in which the company poured extensive money intoresearch and development, would not receive approval by the Food and DrugAdministration. The CEO of ImClone, Sam Waskal, in an effort to avoidfinancial losses to his shares of ImClone, made a call to his stock broker todump his shares of the company stock. The broker, who also served as abroker for Martha Stewart, notified Stewart that the CEO was liquidating the company stock and that it would be in her financial interest to follow suit byselling off her own shares of the company, which totaled almost 4,000shares. The Securities and Exchange Commission noticed an unusual coincidencebetween the selling of mass amounts of shares by the CEO of ImClone andMartha Stewart and began an investigation to determine if Martha Stewartwas guilty of insider trading.Insider trading is defined by the SEC as “Illegal insider trading refersgenerally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or otherrelationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of material,nonpublic information about the security.
Ladybug got accepted to the New England School of Art and Design and decided to go to pursue her career. After reading the letter, her dad says to her, "we'll now that you got accepted, how's life? (23). Ladybug has a very unusual name and many people were curious to find out where it came from. explains that "they named me Ladybug, but they mostly called me L.B., which, through several misunderstandings early in my education, became Ellie (34)".
At the same time, with the push toward BSN, about 1983-1985 was when many traditional hospital based schools partnered with a nearby college or university to create the first fast-track from Diploma to BSN. Students still take 2 years of "nursing" at the hospital-based school, but are also enrolled in undergrad studies going toward a BSN. These new Hospital-College unions still graduate some of the best Registered Nurses because
I never knew all the different types of treatments and therapy that my friend went through before she passed way in 2005, until I read more about it for my paper. While researching all this information I really wish the newer drug Kalydeco was approved while my friend was still alive. Even with some of the common side effects I really believe my friend would be still here today and would have lived passed 37. Overall, I really enjoyed looking up this information and writing this paper I feel I know a little more about this disease and understand the different symptoms as well. References Lauren B. Cystic Fibrosis Community Children’s Health Understanding Cystic Fibrosis: The Basics Wedmd Understanding Cystic Fibrosis—Diagnosis and Treatment Dankert-Roelse,Jeannette E. International Journal of Clinical Reviews Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: From Experiment to Routine Procedure O’Sullivan, Brian P; Cystic Fibrosis KALYDECO is the first and only FDA-approved CFTR potentiate For patients with cystic fibrosis age 6 years and older who have a G551D
After graduation, between practicing and performing research, Shouldice became interested in early-ambulation. Heskett (2003) says that this “stemmed, in part, from an operation he performed in 1932 to remove the appendix from a seven-year-old girl and the girl’s subsequent refusal to stay in bed” (p. 1). The Shouldice Hospital website still boasts of this early identifier by stating: “Shouldice pioneered the concept of early ambulation, which is now a standard procedure in modern medical care. Early ambulation means that patients are encouraged to get up and start moving around as soon as possible after surgery” (Shouldice Hospital, n.d.). This early discovery led to what is now recognized as the Shouldice Method across the globe.
After getting out of prison in 1988, he fled to Sudan where he received an asylum to come to the United States. Once in the United States, he worked at Seven Eleven Gas station as a manager to support himself. After doing this for about two years, he graduated with an Associates Degree in Nursing in December 1993 from a university in Virginia.
William Shockley: Father of the Bipolar Transistor William Shockley was born in 1910 to American parents in London, England. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology before getting a PhD in physics from MIT. After that, he went to work at Bell Labs, taking a brief break for radar research for the military during WWII, returning to Bell after the war ended. During his schooling at CIT, Shockley married Jean Bailey, who gave birth to Alison Shockley in 1934. Later, Shockley would divorce Jean and marry Emmy Lanning, who would have a son, Dick.