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Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

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 ...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Assessing a Potential Investment in an MRI Scanner

than having opportunity costs this may be an opportunity provider and as a complimentary service to other core services that are o...

Community Project: Self-Care For OCD

at some point throughout their lives, with three to five million Americans of both genders and all race/socioeconomic background o...

Tools Of The Trade: Hypodermic Needles, Stethoscopes And Thermometer

served to improve the manner by which physicians can detect issues with the heart that previous equipment was unable to do, not th...

Should Churches Be Taxed - Should The Government Fund Medical Research

and they need to continue to fund the studies that need to be done today. The benefits are vast. As we can conclude from past res...

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

to benefits while they are on their absence of leave (Wikipedia, 2006). "Generally, the Act ensures that all workers are able to t...

Technology, Mother Nature, and Ethics

term, or hire a human incubator, or go through various forms of testing and treatments to try to conceive a baby naturally, but so...

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitation

for a defined period of time" (Morgan, 2006). The 7 year time period applies when a case could not be discovered because of fraud ...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

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...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

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...

Proper Disposal of 'Sharps'

concerning the safe disposal of sharps (Diabetes Monitor, 2006). Many healthcare facilities, particularly those serving diabetic p...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

Integrated Medical Billing and Management Software, and the Current Life Cycle Stage

The next stage is the market introduction stage there will be low level sales. The people purchasing the product are likely to be ...

Transformational Leadership and Change

others being inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration (Bryant, 2003). As this suggests...

An Application to a University's School of Allied Health Professions

coding specialist - is accounted for differently than that of direct labor, and there is no employer arrangement whereby the physi...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

Whole Foods or Vitamin Supplements in Treating Hepatitis B

of vitamin supplements results in the extraction of vitamins and the loss of enzymes or coenzymes that exist in foods naturally. ...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

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...