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sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

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

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

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

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

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...

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