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where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

and services to another country, even as one as "anglo" as Canada, one doesnt just slap a few products on a freight truck up and s...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

In six pages two articles concerning parliamentary reform in Canada are evaluated regarding their coverage of the pertinent issues...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...