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Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

Health Care Cost Reduction

In one hundred pages an exhaustive literature review considering how to reduce medical care costs in the United States is presente...

International Business and the Importance of Training and Development

companies are complaining about the shortage of trained technological manpower" (Anonymous, 1998; p. PG). One Israeli company, To...

Hepatitis Types and EMS Implications

In four pages hepatitis is discussed in terms of its different types, process of transmission, symptoms, and signs with an evaluat...

California Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exempt Status Assessment

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

Concept of Medical Futility

In twenty pages legal case law is examined in an argument that opposes medical paternalism and medical futility. Twenty sources a...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Emergency Medical Situations and Family Attendance

In five pages this paper considers family member inclusion or exclusion in various medical situations and the medical and ethical ...

Practice of Culturally Competency

homosexual community should also be considered. While psychologists and other practitioners of psychology do want to have a cultur...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Medical Marijuana

compounds and has been implicated in a high percentage of automobile crashes and workplace accidents" (Medical Marijuana ProCon.or...

Primary Care and Specialists

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

Satellites: Contribution To Technology

and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...

Marijuana Bills Introduced by Reps. Blumenauer and Farr

This paper reports the history of the use of marijuana as a medical intervention and when it became illegal in this country. It po...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Mountain Formation: The Caledonians and the Appalachians

another and to the north and south poles. The Caledonians and the Appalachians alike , however, are obviously more than the produ...

Ethical Position Paper

The Chinese organization provides a range of services for the poorest families free of charge, which include post natal care, incu...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Park's "The Siege: The First Eight Years Of An Autistic Child"

they could understand. Even so, Park believed this was the best option for Elly if she was going to assimilate into any semblance...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

Appalachian Female Coal Miners

men and women around the country to the strength and perseverance of Appalachian women" (Appalachian Women 2002, PG). THE STRENGT...

Comparative Analysis of Cherokee and Appalachian Native American Cultures

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

Appalachian Regional Politics

several spotlights have been placed on the region and those spotlights lit a fuse under politicians who are always willing to do a...

Determining the Safety and Effectiveness of a New Anti-Cancer Agent

epitope using an IgG antibody from a breast cancer patient. This epitope, KASIFLK, is one expressed preferentially by breas...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Appalachian History and the Notarious Feud Between the Hatfields and McCoys

This paper argues that Appalachia as a whole has been shaped both directly and indirectly by this notorious event. There are eigh...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...