Allen School Healthcare Training Blog

PATRICK SWAYZE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANT STUDENT “ACTING IN CONCERT” Actor Patrick Swayze described his fight with pancreatic cancer as “going through hell.” It never stopped him, however, from meeting the challenges of taking on the grueling lead role in a television series. He told Barbara Walters, “I’ve never been one to run from a challenge.” […] Read More

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama If you find it […] Read More

Have a question? Have ideas for a story for the newsletter? Wish to share information about something that other students might find interesting? Have you recently obtained your first job? Have you received a promotion? Feel free to email the editor at: newsletter@allenschool.edu. Some of your questions and comments may appear in the newsletter. Dear […] Read More

Gero Huetter, a German hematologist at Berlin’s Charité Hospital, has reported that a 42-year-old leukemia patient, upon whom he performed a bone marrow transplant, appears to also have been cured of HIV. The patient suffered from HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) for more than a decade. Twenty months after the bone marrow transplant, the doctor […] Read More

Got a question? Have ideas for a story for the newsletter? Wish to share information about something other students might find interesting? Have you recently obtained your first job? Did you receive a promotion? Feel free to email the editor at: newsletter@allenschool.edu. Some of your questions may be answered in the newsletter. Dear Editor: I […] Read More

ALLEN SCHOOL STUDENTS ROCK THE BLOOD DRIVE Volunteer donors provide blood to over 4.5 million people a year in the United States, a total of 14,600,000 pints, enough to fill 25 enormous swimming pools! There is, however, an ongoing major shortage as blood banks across the nation attempt to maintain a minimum of a three […] Read More

“There I was – in a circle with all of the doctors…” 3rd Module MEDICAL ASSISTANT STUDENT SAVES PATIENT Dear Editor: My name is Althenia Morris and I am presently attending Allen School in Brooklyn. [One recent] Saturday, I went to my weekend job where I have been taking care of an 83 year old […] Read More

“For most of the group members, it was the shark tank that caused the most oohing and aahing as the ‘dentally-challenged’ creatures swam back and forth looking for their next meal which, thankfully, was not a newly-minted Allen School Medical Assistant…” FACTS: 1. Did you know that the Greeks and Romans used electrical eels as […] Read More

Allen School Controller Advocates for Breast Cancer Awareness on Capitol Hill This spring, Arlene Palmer, who has been Allen School’s financial controller for almost twenty-five years, performed yet another one of her ongoing good deeds, this time on behalf of Breast Cancer Awareness. Along with a large advocacy group, Arlene traveled to Washington, DC, directly […] Read More

Two Allen School top performers, Tamara Pinder from the Brooklyn campus, and Leonilla Jewell from the Queens campus, both with 4.0 GPAs and exceptional attendance, gave inspirational speeches to the large audience at Allen School’s Graduation 2008 on Friday, June 6th at the Queens College Colden Auditorium in Flushing, NY. Ms. Pinder referred to 2008 […] Read More