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Essays 271 - 300

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

Stem Cells and Their Uses

place, researchers injected a toxin into the monkeys brains, then transplanted "3 million cells into the brains of five of the mon...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HIV

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

The Ethics of Medical Experimentation

This same view, of course, has been used even more extensively to excuse our use of animals in medical experimentation. While thi...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HPV

carry out specific behaviors influences the behaviors in which they engage, their persistence in the face of obstacles, and the ef...

Modern Organizations and Nursing Leaders

Medical Center, all of which are included in Clinical Operations. All of these nurses are RNs, and all hold the office of Vice Pr...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English

that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry anywhere near the same weight as those b...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

Medical Experts and the Decline in Trust

to change the class they fit into more so than at any time in the past. In addition to this there has also been an amendment in th...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Informed Consent and Issues of Medical Ethics

physicians, theologians, and lawyers in founding journals, research centers, hospital and medical school committees, departments, ...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

Grief and a Breast Cancer Mastectomy

likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Biomedical to Biopsychosocial Medical Evolution

Thanks to the efforts of professional like Engels, there is a new direction in medicine which emphasizes the concept that healing ...

Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Medical Treatment, Parents, Religion and the Law

even her mother and father over whether she should get blood transfusions to treat her leukemia. Doctors say that without the trea...

Should Animal Testing Continue or Be Stopped?

Imperial Chemical Industries, contends that animal testing, whether one likes it or not, is a legal requirement. Dr. Charles Mayo...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Malaria's Medical Geography

vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. falciparum, with the first and last strains representing the most common; the last is also the...