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in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

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

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...

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

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...

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

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

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

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...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

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

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...

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

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

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

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

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...

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

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 ...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....