Dear Reader...

The medical field continues to progress as our society does. We have access to thousands upon thousands of new technology and medication that has made healthcare stronger than ever. Often we put our faith and trust into these new advances, but sometimes they are not always perfect.

Everything we know changes day by day and evolves as we do. Whether it’s an unplanned pandemic that turns the world upside down or getting an undiagnosed cold, we learn to take what we hear with a grain of salt and are left to figure out what we truly believe for ourselves. We’ll never fully know everything in the field but with the tools we have today we are able to learn more and gain more of an understanding of it.

Medicine itself and what we know about it is constantly evolving. The healthcare system has altered how we receive our care and even the medicines themselves. We are able to live longer, cure diseases that would have never been thought of, and survive a pandemic. From the new discoveries to failed tests, it’s advanced our world into what it is now. The strides and accomplishments that have been made over time have helped our world grow into what it is now and will continue to help us move forward.

These advances, along with the imperfections, are ever present in our own community. As you have read, we have a background of various healthcare experiences. Throughout the good, bad, and ugly our community has supported us through it all. From Damon Merzweiler’s traumatic experience, the blood drives we hold at school or our sports trainers pushing our football athletes to make history, healthcare is within it all.

While we can try to work to help individual issues by spreading awareness and making these issues more known to the public, the root of the problem is the system itself. We can work towards breaking down stigmas and misconceptions that are often present throughout the medical field to improve our current situation as much as we can.

We hope as a reader you now understand some of the stigmas and misconceptions that are present in the medical field in our world today along with the various ways it has affected us. But, also how much we rely on it. As a society we need to continue to overcome setbacks and obstacles the world and the field has thrown at us. We hope that as you read you come to realize the weight of the medical field and the severity of the topics we have mentioned in this magazine.