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RISKS FACED BY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TODAY

Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

Overspecialization in Medicine

than 40% of current graduates from U.S. medical schools expected to enter generalist practice, the projected physician workforce w...

Improving Organ Donation Through Clarification and Education

biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...

Organizational Leadership and Politics

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

Overcoming Unrealistic Fears Preventing Early Screening for Prostate Problems

This paper compares and contrasts the facts verses the misperceptions of prostate problems. The author argues that physicians are...

Sore Throats Can Lead to Rheumatic Fever

This paper seeks to drill home the message that strep throat and scarlet fever are serious illnesses and need to be treated by phy...

llegality of Assisted Suicide in Regards to the 14th Amendment

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...

Problems Facing Advance Practice Nurses

This 11 page paper provides an overview of the issues advance practice nurses face in expanding their practice. This paper demonst...

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...

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...

Impact of Managed Care

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

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

Hospital Risk Management - Consent Forms

wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-Ne...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Medical Coding

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

Depression - General Overview

weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

An Admission Essay for Premedical Studies

The fear in my grandmothers eyes and my mothers sobs did not see to dispel him from his cautionary discussion, one that was design...

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...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...

Texas Physicians and Nurse Practitioners

and the American Nurses Association found somewhat "paternalistic and demeaning" as the guide determined that "the physician is re...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...