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Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

Right to Die Issues of Public Policy

In eight pages this paper considers 'right to die' issues of public policy and includes group and elite theories as well as increm...

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

Lexington, Kentucky's Veterans Administration Medical Center Issues Regarding Benefits and Payroll

already present. Richard J. Griffin, the VAs Inspector General, reported to Congress in May 2003 that the VA has been inves...

AMA, Ethics, and PAS

of the term does the taking of a life, or the assistance to take ones own life, fall under the definition in anyones dictionary of...

Debate on Euthanasia Legalization

often, years of pain, suffering and despair (Paris, 1997). Patients like Karen Ann Quinlan were trapped by technology that could w...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

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...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

The Policy Process In Developing/Emerging Countries: Nigeria

of strengths, weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. However, one might readily argue how Nigeria would not be at the point it...

Against Euthanasia

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...

Physician Induced Demand: Examples From Obstretics

on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET): The Potential Pitfalls of Reimbursement

availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

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 ...

Canada and Electronic Order Entry

and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

HMOs and Primary Care Physicians

In ten pages this paper discusses PCPs in terms of disadvantages associated with primary care physicians being used as gatekeepers...

Physicans' Supply and Demand

In six pages this paper discusses how supply and demand has changed in the past two decades with regards to physicians with 2000 y...

Answers to Health Questions

In five pages this paper examines seven topics pertaining to the health care industry in terms of potential questions that might r...

Perspectives on Euthanasia

This paper consists of eight pages and examines euthanasia from legislative, physician, and family member perspectives. Nine sour...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Role in Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

on this journey is Michael Betzold, author of Appointment With Dr. Death, in which he rivets our attention to Dr. Kevorkian as he ...

Secondary and High Schools' Emergency Plans

In six pages various emergency plans are examined at the secondary and high school levels and include athlete physical examination...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Nurse Practitioner Perceptions

In five pages this paper examines nurse practitioners in a discussion of differing perceptions between nurses and physicians regar...

Jewish Community and Health Issues

their religious convictions. While that is an extreme illustration, behavior as expressed by particular groups does impact their o...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...

Physician Assisted Suicide and the US Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines the growing and highly controversial issue of physician assisted suicide and the position of the...