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a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...
Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...
The fear in my grandmothers eyes and my mothers sobs did not see to dispel him from his cautionary discussion, one that was design...
incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...
a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...
see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...
weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...
than 40% of current graduates from U.S. medical schools expected to enter generalist practice, the projected physician workforce w...
biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...
wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-Ne...
Laws that govern each of the named practices reflect a judgment call and they vary ("When Death is Sought" 49). Physicians often ...
Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
in the last months of his life than he had been previously, and that was something he would have denied them, and himself, had the...
on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...
availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...
of strengths, weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. However, one might readily argue how Nigeria would not be at the point it...
one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...
intrusive medical technology that doctors are allowed to use in order to save their lives in critical situations (Puri, 2006). For...
the new advertising venues. This trend has been reflected in pharmaceutical companies as well, for whom online advertising has bee...
emotional appeal, where marketers have sought to appeal to either negative or positive emotions with attempts to find the right em...
In other words, because economics is a social science studying decision-making behavior and the allocation of scarce resources, in...
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...