Gift of Life

 Hello friends! I am back with the last post regarding my internship at The Gift of Life Donor Program and Institute. This week I primarily spent time working on my project and handling insurance companies from the accident last week. This internship has provided me with so many skills, knowledge, and ideas that I have never thought could've existed. Being exposed to so many different components of medicine has been incredible and I am excited to continue my career in medicine. Its really incredible how every single person has an equal role in ensuring that lives are saved; including the administrative components, nurses, residents, fellows, attendings, surgeons, call center employees, educational institutes, family members,  counselors, chaplains, and so many more. I feel like I am leaving this internship with a piece of knowledge from every department and am so thankful to everyone that put their time and effort into creating this incredible experience. Here is the summation of m

 Hi friends, I am back with an insanely eventful week. Below are the details. We have one more week of this internship so thank you for following my story this summer. Thank you for reading!  Monday (July 31): Today I attended a didactic meeting on Quality assurance and the actions they need to take to follow up with tissue processing companies so that tissues can be released in order to help others. Quality Assurance may need to track down any missing medical files or cases in which the donor could have any diseases that were not identified in the medical and social history questionnaire. We also followed a chart review they had finished that morning. In organ cases, the chart review is relatively quick because they are life-saving transplants and everything that needs to be handled is handled prior to transplant. Remember in Week 1/2 I explained that tissue was regulated by the FDA? There are so many more details and background information needed to ensure that the bone and skin graf