- Summary/ Reaction: Kat Cressida was the person who voiced Snow Whites, Ariel, Bella, Black Widow Bride and Jessie the Cowgirl. Cressida graduated from UC Berkeley in Theater, she had failed many times for on- camera . After failing she applied for voice over and succeeded. One day she heard something weird in her voice and went for a check up. The doctors said she had a cyst. Still worried and doubting it she asked for an MRI. She went to Germany and had to wait months until she was diagnosed with dermatofibrosarcoma which is a very rare cancer one out of one million per year diagnosed with it. This lead to the conclusion of doctors that she wasn't going to speak again. My reaction to this article is negative- I think doctors should be educated well and be tested before being hired. I believe they should be given a patient with a rare type of disease without knowing in order to test their skills. If she wouldn't have insisted on the MRI she probably wouldn't be alive due to the fact she was not being checked correctly for her health. Doctors should have hands on exams after graduating and being hired, or simply be fired when something like this occurs.
History Connection: I can connect this to Ellis Island. In Ellis Island one could have had a severe disease or illness and they wouldn't know just because only the ones that looked like they were sick were sent for a check up. I can also connect it to Braceros Program where the doctor would just say they were perfectly fine when in reality they were dying.
- Discussion Question: Should all people all over the world that are graduating have all materials needed and diagnose people with rare diseases without being told to test their skills?
All people should be diagnosed properly as health issues are not to be dismissed easily. The fact that Cressida had to insist for an MRI shows that the doctors did not really care about her life enough and just made assumptions about her problems. Doctors should understand more about rare diseases in order to better evaluate someone's health because a patient that may have a rare disease would have to bounce around from doctor to doctor for months and years to search for an answer. health.usnews.com says that "patients living with rare disease visit an average of 7.3 physicians before receiving an accurate diagnosis."
ReplyDeleteAll doctors that graduated or are about to graduate should have the access to the materials need to properly diagnose their patients with rare diseases such as dermatofibrosarcoma. Doctors who misdiagnosed their patients should re-educate themselves so they can give the best treatment to their future patients. On cnbc.com, it stated that "a recent study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors...which are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer." This shows how severe the consequences are if people are misdiagnosed.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't one person in the world that doesn't deserve to get diagnosed properly I don't think it would be good to dismiss a health issue.-Mario
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