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Ethics and a Medical Malpractice Case Study

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

Gilda Radner's Ovarian Cancer and the Role of Medical Care

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

HCFA and the Diagnosis Related Group

case fluctuate from this standard (Long Island Business News, 2002). The diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) are not only defined ...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

The Politics and Economics of Stem Cell Utilization

fetal stem cells raises the ethical problems surrounding abortion. This presented a scenario where politicians found themselves p...

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 English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Medical School Application

gave me the potential opportunity to study at some of the best colleges and universities in the world. My brother and I are the o...

A Conversation Regarding Medical Ethics

they take care of themselves. I think it depends on how they have considered their condition. I mean, who has the greater chance o...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

Medical Ethics on Television

One particular episode of House stands out with a number of ethical breaches and dilemmas in "Informed Consent," an episode that a...

Right to Refuse Treatment

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

Music Therapy as a Pediatric Sedative

post-discharge effects of chlorate hydrate, these parents/guardian reported unsteadiness, hyperactivity, poor appetite, vomiting a...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

Medical Marijuana, Pro and Con

This research paper discusses the benefits and risks associated with medical marijuana use. The writer concludes in favor of presc...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

Issues with RHIOs

A RHIO is a type of health information exchange organization where certain professionals upload health/medical data and other prof...

Reliable Information on Providers, Facilities

This research paper discusses how patient can obtain valid information on reliable providers and health care facilities and the re...

Proposal for the Application of Collaborative Practices in Health Care Provision

The paper, which is written in the style of a White Paper, proposes an increased level of collaborative practices between medical ...

Cyber Attacks in Healthcare

Few people realize how vulnerable healthcare operations systems, from electronic health records to connected medical devices, are ...