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Medical Situations and Care

A collection depicting various medical scenarios, including childbirth, elderly care, and surgical recovery, highlighting urgency and care in healthcare settings.

Boy in hospital bed with head bandages

Melissa Aguirre, holistic life coach and stress management specialist, left, coaches U.S. Army Capt. Lesley Tarongoy, emergency room nurse, through a yoga routine at Freedom Park on Brooke Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, May 4, 2022. Tarongoy began participating in Aguirre's yoga courses to decompress and practice mindfulness following what she described as a particulaly stressful deployment to Afghanistan in 2020.

Asian Black Bear (Selenarctos thibetanus) 50ml syringe used to extract bile from gall bladder on bear farm, Hanoi, Vietnam, bile extraction, bile, bear farm, bear bile, Asia

Male patient's eye with mature cataract, Close-up

Sudan famine

Thumbprint signature Thumbprint signature, traditional midwives, La Tana health center, Quiche, Republic of Guatemala, Central America Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22071690

A woman receives Reiki at an elderly home for women in Mexico City

Joint Task Force-Bravo Medical Element Preventative Medicine hands out vitamins and other non-prescription medicines April 27, 2022, in the Tuixcox community of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, during a Global Health Engagement. In partnership with the Guatemala Ministry of Health, JTF-B provided womens health, preventative medicine, triage, primary care, dental and pharmacy care to more than 450 people in two days. These efforts enhance stability, increase readiness through medical training and showcase our enduring promise of friendship, partnership and solidarity in the region.

Netherlands, Maarn, 2022-11-21. Report on the Spinoza Institute in the Netherlands, a legal company that offers a psychedelic experience in several stages (exchange with one of the mentors / online preparation / feedback) and which includes a 24-hour retreat with psychotropic drugs, including natural psilocybin (herbal teas) and mushrooms (with music, meditation). The claimed objective of this transformative experience is to reach a deeper level of consciousness through an absence of mental filters: "to go to the meeting of oneself, to reconnect body and mind, to know oneself better, to change something in oneself, to break with patterns, to return to nature". Photography by Martin Bertrand. Pays-Bas, Maarn, le 2022-11-21. Reportage sur l'Institut Spinoza aux Pays-Bas, entreprise legale qui propose une experience psychedelique qui se fait en plusieurs etapes (echange avec l'un des mentors / preparation en ligne / retour sur experience) et qui comprend une retraite de 24h avec prise de

Intra-auricular prosthesis in the palm of the hand.

In a gymnasium, converted into a medical facility, rows of patient beds stand ready. In the foreground technician do a dry run with a simulated patient. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown

Traditional medicine.

Women in Nablus Hospital

Ultrasound transport by volunteers from Mallorca, La Taña, Franja Transversal del Norte, department of Quiché, Guatemala.

Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough dons his Russian Sokol suit ahead of the Soyuz qualification exams with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia.

Veterinarians working on an Addax with the PN of Bou-Hedma

Pollen allergy (conyza bonriensis) in a 56-year-old woman.

Members of the US Army 5th Special Forces Medical Unit, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, pass out medicine to local Kazakhs during Operation BALANCE KAYAK held in Kazakhstan (KAZ) 14 September 2000. BALANCE KAYAK,12-21 September 2000 is a medical capabilities exercise between US and Kazakhstan providing various facets of medical treatment to12 villages by screening patients and providing training to increase Kazakhstan's medical capabilities. Services offered are OBGYN, Orthopedics and General Practice with a fully equipped mobile pharmacy. All equipment used was provided by the host nation, Kazakhstan. Subject Operation/Series: BALANCE KAYAK Country: Kazakhstan (KAZ)

Panchakarma , Pizichil , Ayurvedic Medicated oil treatment

Vietnam. Center for blind children. Daily life.

The Black Death. 14th century. Epidemic that ravaged the European continent. Figure of a woman hit by plague. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

Intra-auricular prosthesis in the palm of the hand. Hearing disorders-Invisible intra-auricular type hearing aid 016454_018

substance abuse, addiction, people and drug use concept - close up of addict woman and used syringes on ground

A traditional Chinese practioner of medicinal cupping with a patient on the streets of Pudong.

Tom Bocek Sr. (left), Decontamination Education and Consulting training manager, Biloxi, Miss., simulated being contaminated as a role player during a Patient Decontamination Course, Aug. 10, 2022, at Joint Base San Antoni-Randolph, Texas. Military members across Joint Base San Antonio participate in a Patient Decontamination Course, Aug. 10, 2022, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. The outdoor training teaches and refreshes JBSA medics and firefighters on DECON procedures. In Place Patient Decontamination training protects the military treatment facility from further contamination.

Reportage in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France.

Equine therapists treat a boy who has infantile cerebral paralysis during his horse therapy session in Mexico City

Photo essay on the everyday life of an independent nurse (Bagnolet, France). Diabetic patient.

A female U.S. Air Force medical officer examines a patient who was wounded during the multiservice, multinational Operation Urgent Fury on Grenada. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Unknown

SSGT David Castillo, a radiology technician with 126th Medical Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL, assists dentist MAJ Susan Cleereman, from the 110th Medical Squadron, Michigan Air National Guard, Battle Creek, MI, performs a tooth extraction on a Guyanese farmer during a Medical Civil Assistance Program (MEDCAP) held in support of the first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise which included engineering and medical readiness training. Subject Operation/Series: NEW HORIZON '97 Base: Kumaka Country: French Guiana (GUF)

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. Return from intervention.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Roel Segarra, from Pago Pago, American Samoa, measures the length of a local patient's surgical scar during physical therapy at Belau National Hospital in Ngerekebesang, Palau, as part of Pacific Partnership 2024-1, Jan. 3, 2024. Pacific Partnership, now in its 19th iteration, is the largest multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific and works to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increase security stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships.

veterinarian removing plastic glove after an intervention

Reportage on volunteers with the French charity, Gynecologists Without Borders who work in refugee camps near Calais in the north of France. A midwife examining a man's foot.

A depressed Cuban shows an assortment of sedatives in their brightly colored blister packs.

Veterinarian observing the claws of a lion asleep Namibia

Africa, Ethiopia, Omo River Valley, South Omo, Hamer tribe. Detail of scarification on Hamer woman's arm.

man getting tattoo

Extraction of a Guinea Worm Benin

Agent Orange Victim

Waiting room for pregnant women at Uong Bi hosital, Vietnam 2008

centro de salud de lancetillo, La Parroquia, Quiche, República de Guatemala, América Central.

Operating room. dirty operating room in an abandoned hospital

Joint Task Force-Bravo leadership and members of the Health Engagements Assistance Response Team 2022 speak with Dr. Carlos Sánchez, second from left, the director of Hospital Escuela, during a visit to Hospital Escuela during a visit to Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 29, 2022. HEART 22 is a U.S. Southern Command operation led by JTF-B meant to strengthen partnerships and build resiliency.

Serious injury on girl’s arm

Report from the ophthalmological department of the Rouen University Hospital. Placement of an ocular prosthesis.

Acupuncture, Vietnamese traditional medicine clinic, Cu Chi, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Foot massage using herb pouches, Somatheeram Ayurveda Resort, traditional Ayurvedic medicine spa resort in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Asia

060702-N-3714J-096. Complete Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) Builder Second Class (BU2) Shane Murray, assigned to the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 (NMCB-40), embarked aboard the USN Military Sealift Command USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), paints the pediatric ward with the help of a local girl at the Chittagong Medical and College Facility during the ship's humanitarian and civic assistance visit at Chittagong, Bangladesh (BGD). The MERCY is on a scheduled five-month deployment in Southeast Asia. Its mission is being carried out in close coordination and partnership with local medical care professionals and civilian volunteers from Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), Operation Smile and other organizations. Some of the civilian volunteers include anesthesiologists, nurses, and doctors from the US, Austraila and Canada. Base: Chittagong Country: Bangladesh (BGD)

A man gets his temperature checked outside mosque after the opening of most of the religious places after India eases lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, June 8, 2020. (Photo by: Majority World/Kuldeep Singh Rohilla/UIG)

Hughes International Clinic, American Embassy in Colombia, United for Colombia and Cirec Foundation; took place the closing of a work week, where prosthesis Americans developed and made prosthesis delivery of 25 surviving beneficiaries of anti-personnel mines it is behind this initiative which aims to help those who have suffered Colombian armed conflict. Juancho Torres , a freelance photographer from Colombia, even he was born in the country, the war doesn't go to the cities like Bogota had heard more than a few stories about the mines. Colombias drawn-out battle between government forces, Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups has led to the worlds second-highest fatality rate from land mines, after Afghanistan. In recent years, it has only gotten worse. The Colombian government says that more than 11,000 people have been injured or killed by land mines in the country since 1990, with more than 2,000 victims in the last five years alone and more than 50 this year.

Staff Sgt. Bailey Jackson,139th Medical Group Homeland Response Force, gets her temperature taken after the decontamination exercise to ensure she is healthy at Camp Clark, Nevada, Missouri, June 9, 2022. Missouri National Guard Airmen and Soldiers searched and extracted casualties in a simulated decontaminated deployed environment.

Waiting at UPMRC/PHR pharmacy

nurse accompanying an elderly man on a rehabilitation walk, Juan March Hospital, Bunyola, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya, Mountain Doctor And Nurse Treating Young Boy.

Indian drug addict passed out with needle still in his arm

A hospital-based emergency service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and covers an entire region. Intervention in a travellers' area. An elderly person complains of chest pain.

A rose and fruits are distributed to a patient by doctors and health workers during the celebration of World Kindness Day in the dialysis ward at IGM (Indira Gandhi Memorial) Hospital in Agartala. World Kindness Day, observed internationally on November 13th, was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of kindness-focused NGOs from various nations. Tripura, India.

A child in the Garki area of Abuja peeks out from under a Permanet long lasting insecticide treated mosquito net. Sleeping under a mosquito net every night prevents malaria, which is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Globally, malaria kills 1,000,000 people every year, most of them pregnant women and children under five. NOT MODEL RELEASED. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Nepal, Sangha, Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre

Veterinary and breeder reading directions for use a drug

AIDS in Africa

Dentist , Fish. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) veterinarians, Ric Berlinski and John Ochsenreiter, with ranger, Zoldoshbek Bektemirov, checking vitals during collaring of wild male snow leopard, Sarychat-Ertash Strict Nature Reserve, Tien Shan Mountains, eastern Kyrgyzstan

Volunteers trained in the application of moulage apply a leg injury to a simulated victim during the 2022 major accident response exercise, June 29, 2022, on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. Moulage gives exercises a factor of realism to help Airmen practice for real-world events.

Equip with veterinarians dealing with arrow Addax Tunisia

Old religious woman wears anti-pollution mask in the streets

Dr. Elinor Moore , Lankien, South Sudan

Tornado - Joplin, Mo. , August 23, 2011 St. John's mobile hospital tent units continue to serve patients after EF-5 tornado destroyed St. John's Regional Medical Center on May 22, 2011. FEMA is in the city to provide assistance to the disaster survivors. Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Waiting for doctors in Yasuf

A hospital corpsman bandages the hand of a Kurdish refugee boy during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A woman is bandaged after having a tooth removed by US Navy Captain John R. Downs (not shown), Commanding Officer Humanitarian Relief Operation, and US Navy Hospital Corpsman Second Class Gregory Quigley (not shown) during the humanitarian relief operation, Exercise FAIRWINDS '96, at Saint Michael's, an Orphanage / Hospital / School, in Port-au Prince, Haiti. This exercise is part of the Medical Readiness Training the medics receive throughout the year. The medics go to a different location everyday in the Port-au-Prince area to give medical support to the local Haitians. Subject Operation/Series: FAIRWINDS '96 Base: Port-Au-Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) assistant director Wei Rong Ping checks the general health of Gongzhu's one day old cub, China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Gongzhu is carefully watched by staff on a video monitor as she tends to her newborn cub, China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Wolong Nature Reserve, China

Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) veterinarian performing ovarian ultrasound on female, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia

young woman checking dentition from a Labrador

Report from the ophthalmological department of the Rouen University Hospital. Placement of an ocular prosthesis.

Bucha, the mortuary

Coronavirus lockdown in Belgium 20/04/2020 ANTWERP, BELGIUM - APRIL 20 : a volunteer of Creatives against Corona makes an distrubutes masks in the Haptic House studio on April 20, 2020 in Antwerp, Belgium, 20/04/2020 Creatives against Corona, Creatives against Corona developed simple patterns for mouth masks, protective suits and aprons in close collaboration with healthcare providers and emergency services. It also makes and distributes ready-made packages to make this protective material itself in the Antwerp region, and coordinates the scaled-up production of finished products via clothing companies. Antwerp Belgium PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxFRAxBEL Copyright: xPeterxDexVoechtx

Nepal, Sangha, Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre

Wounded Iraqis in Amman, Jordan

Cell in the basement of the police station. After the occupation of the city by the Russian army, over 200 people were imprisoned, interrogated and tortured here in freezing temperatures, Isjum, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Europe

Hands, kid and service at hair salon for haircut, grooming or texture maintenance with flare. Teen, boy and trim hairstyle with hairdresser in small business with barbershop tools, comb or scissors

A Russian nurse sits next to Expedition 9 Flight Engineer Michael Fincke, while he sleeps inside a Russian search and rescue helicopter on his way to Kustanay, Kazakhstan after landing in a Soyuz capsule 85 kilometers northeast of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, Sunday, October 24, 2004.

Taking blood samples of Greater Flamingo chick (Phoenicopterus ruber), Fuente de Piedra Lagoon, Malaga province, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

AGARTALA, TRIPURA, INDIA, 30-01-2020: Doctors standing in the arrival gate of the airport, wearing protective mask and gloves, with the permission of Airport Authority Of India ( AAI), trying to identify ill passengers and who may have travelled out of the country, entering Agartala, through Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, Agartala. Tripura health department has set a temporary health inspection camp on the Airport, Agartala, capital of the Northeastern state of Tripura, India.

Arabian Oryx - in squeeze pen having blood sample taken - Re-introduction programme (Oryx leucoryx). Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates.

Hughes International Clinic, American Embassy in Colombia, United for Colombia and Cirec Foundation; took place the closing of a work week, where prosthesis Americans developed and made prosthesis delivery of 25 surviving beneficiaries of anti-personnel mines it is behind this initiative which aims to help those who have suffered Colombian armed conflict. Juancho Torres , a freelance photographer from Colombia, even he was born in the country, the war doesn't go to the cities like Bogota had heard more than a few stories about the mines. Colombias drawn-out battle between government forces, Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups has led to the worlds second-highest fatality rate from land mines, after Afghanistan. In recent years, it has only gotten worse. The Colombian government says that more than 11,000 people have been injured or killed by land mines in the country since 1990, with more than 2,000 victims in the last five years alone and more than 50 this year.

Professional nepalese guide use oxygen finger monitor to check woman trekker blood oxygen levels. Himalayas high altitude feeling low oxygen level affects of dizziness and weakness

Dentist with assistant working on patient in hill tribe market place using foot powered hand drill in Yunnan Province of China

side view homeless man outdoors with medical mask

060725-N-2832L-031. Base: Banda Aceh Country: Indonesia (IDN)

Kachin's militia member Lalaw Ze Dai, from Waimaw village, 25, try to stand up with his crutches in the General Military Hospital in Laiza village close to the China border, Myanmar on July 26, 2012. He was injured by a landmine in June, 26, 2012 loosing part of his right leg on top of knee.

An Indonesian medical officer wearing a face mask during sprays disinfectant at Adisucipto International Airport on March 16, 2020 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Indonesia continues to increase. Indonesia confirmed 134 cases of corona virus, and five killed. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Lockdown not yet an option for Indonesia, says President. (Photo by Devi Rahman/INA Photo Agency/Universal Images Group)

Medical Assisstance - 26-HK-165-7. Hurricane Katrina

Cuba, Medical, Group Of Patients Excercising In A Psychiatric Institute

Monitoring of people after injection of a vaccine against Covid-19 in a vaccination center. French Red Cross volunteers in charge of monitoring people for a period of 15 minutes. In Abbeville (80).

Weighing herbal medicine using traditional scale and using abacus in pharmacy Beijing China (MR)

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) recovery effort, veterinarian, Wang Chengdog, using hand-held reader to locate Mao Mao's body after the May 12, 2008 earthquake and landslides, CCRCGP, Wolong, China

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