Michelle Arnold is member of the The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Class of 2022. She received her Bachelor’s degrees in Biochemistry and Spanish from Arizona State University in 2015 and a Master’s degree in Applied Ethics and the Professions (Biomedical and Health Ethics) also from Arizona State University in 2017. She has interests in medical humanities, patient-provider relationships, and improving healthcare for underserved communities.
Working in a medical profession almost invariably means having to confront human mortality. Though death is ultimately inevitable, in many situations physicians can experience patients’ deaths as a failure on their part to provide appropriate care. It is...
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It’s not the gentle flight of a stork through the glimmering sunshine of new day. It’s new life knit from blood and sinew in the darkness of a womb, a potentially dangerous craft of rearranged organs that can...
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I’m writing this article as I finish up Commissioned Officer Training for the U.S. Air Force. This five-week long training course has represented a significant departure from the content I learned during my first year in medical school....
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During one of my first days shadowing my Community Clinical Experience (CCE) preceptor, I had the opportunity to observe a pelvic exam. This was not the first pelvic exam I had watched – my preceptor is an OB/GYN,...
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Those involved in the Clinical Anatomy course taught last fall: first-year medical students from the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix; physical therapy and occupational therapy students from Northern Arizona University; and faculty and staff who...
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CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing tool that has been the subject of considerable ethical debate since researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou used it in 2015 for germline editing in non-viable human embryos. Their research specifically involved...
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