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Health Care Settings and Affirmative Action

In fifteen pages this research paper considers arguments both for and against affirmative action in terms of admissions into medic...

Implications of Fertility Drug Usage

In five pages the medical ethics, theological, and philosophical issues associated with fertility drug usage are explored. Fourte...

Pregnancy and the Effects of Smoking

In five pages this paper discusses the effects of smoking by pregnant women in a consideration of miscarriages, preemies, and othe...

Brain Stem Transplant Questions

In five pages this paper questions the ethics of brain stem transplants in a consideration of an article on the subject and philos...

Restrictions of HMOs

In six pages this paper examines the restrictions HMOs place regarding receiving medical care and examines emancipation and abolit...

Infant and Children Sodium Intake Suggestions

This paper considers varying suggestions regarding children and infant sodium intake with dietary restrictions and medical conditi...

Overview of Medical Photography

In ten pages this paper examines how the medical profession utilizes photography in a consideration of its applications to diagnos...

Criminality of Medical Malpractice

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Issue of Tort Reform in Florida

Tort reform does make sense because the system is broken, encouraging people to sue anyone due to negligence or carelessness. The ...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Medical Law in California California Compassionate Care Act

the belief that only God has the right to end a life. Assisting a patient to die is usurping the position that rightly belongs to...

A Legal Cause Study Causey v. St. Francis Medical Center

battery under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) (Pub. L. No. 99-272, 100 Stat. 164 (codified as amende...

Microeconomics Issues

need for reform and the shape that such reform should take. As politicians haggle over private interests and noble ideals that no...

American Hospitals and Medical Mistake Causes

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

Euthanasia and Medical Ethics

such morality, we render ourselves essentially useless. In other words, Lachs contends that it is one thing to expound about the ...

Law and Confidentiality

notify of births and deaths (Davies, 1998). It also makes sense that there will be some conditions that should be notified due to ...

Technological and Internet Marvels

procedure rendered a single, poor quality image, however, the efforts of Drs. Raymond Damadian, Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmit...

Global Trade Issues

a replacement this would be a negative impact. The product is used as a guiding tool as well as diagnosis. Here there may be reco...

Issues of Middle Age and Male Baby Boomers

Clearly, there are many issues which correlate to this particular group, namely a host of health concerns which are becoming more ...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gene Therapy and Shaywitz and Ausiello's Back To The Future

the care of humanity. "As stewards of God, "made in Gods image and likeness... we are not simulating a divine role ... we are car...

UK and Medical Negligence

the case often cited to explain this. The judge in Bolam ruled that there can be two or more schools of thought in respect to prio...

Right to Live and Medical Ethics

Study Andrew is a 68-year-old male who was admitted to a medical intensive care unit after experiencing a stroke. On life ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Organ Transplant Policy: Australia

cell research. Federal legislation passed in December, 2002 placed significant boundaries upon how and when stem cells can be inc...