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Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

Ethical Considerations with Regard to Randomized Clinical Trials

depression, schizophrenia, etc. (Weijer and Anderson, 2001). These trials are justified via the rationalization that such...

Examination of Huntington's Disease

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

Presentation on Canada's Hamilton Health Services

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

CBT

attitudes, and to use awareness and time to reconsider personal actions. The most positive end result is the adoption of better t...

Substance Abuse and a Supervision Personal Theory

identifies five basic qualities of effective supervision: 1. Formal structure which is...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Considerin a Medicare Fraud Case

responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...

Overview of Congestive Heart Failure

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

Mental Health Clients and Increasing Independence

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

All About Anorexia Nervosa

and height), an intense fear of becoming fat, and (in females) skipped menstrual periods for at least three months" (Grilo, Sinha,...

National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 and Depression Treatment

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

Asperger's Disorder and DSM IV Assessment

However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...

Social Workers and Critically Evaluating the Practice and Theory of Inter-Personal Joint Working

(Leason, 2002). The idea of joint working may have different manifestations, one of these may be the development of single ...

Health Care and Aging

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

An Article on Nursing Spirituality Critiqued

of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...

Article Critique of Prader Willi Syndrome and Food Preferences

a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Overview of EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

Case Study on Mechanical Ventilation

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...