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Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Marriage Rights, Medical Benefits, and Gay Marriage

It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Perfusionists

perfusionist education.) The current certification process, which is overseen by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Emerging Standards of Culturally Competent Care

to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...

BUSINESS PLAN EVALUATION -- FOSSA MEDICAL

this benchmark assessment in this section comes in the area of personnel. There is no urologist mentioned -- and given that one of...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Statistical Analysis of Research Results

same result can come from a wide variety of underlying results. It may be that the underlying results are density population, all ...

Medical Knowledge/Medieval Europe v. Arab World

texts, such as the works of Hippocrates and Galen, were held by the Roman Catholic Church, whose policies toward medicine were des...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

X-Ray Technician

they need for formulating a diagnosis. The data provided by these technicians allows clinicians to repair broken bones and create ...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Effects of Exercise during Pregnancy

1993, p. 44). This means exactly what it says: the woman has to be able to exercise and talk at the same time without feeling shor...

The Family and Medical Leave Act and the Case of Kroger

their rights under the FLMA and the notice can be verbal (Lexis, 2006). However, under section (d) the employer can also assert th...

Ostomy Wounds

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

Morality and Medical Data Mining

are immediately clear: incomplete responses will be of little value to a company that is trying to "fine tune" its medicines. Th...

Hypertension and Two Sites from the World Wide Web

mainstream medical establishment itself can produce invalid web sites when its goal of economic profit overrides its goal of most ...

PSS World Medical Inc. (SWOT Analysis)

2006). This demonstrates a lack of research, or poor judgment, on the part of executives. The company anticipates that the same pr...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

Marijuana Should be Legal in Medical Applications

1993, p. 23). The authors believe that if people see patients using marijuana and "functioning fine," they will question why its i...

Nuclear Medicine

which in and of itself was not unusual but it was the fact that this tube was enveloped in thick, black cardboard that caused Roen...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...