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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...

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

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

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

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

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

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...

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

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

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...

are almost always upheld by the courts. Nevertheless, this does not give government unlimited power to dictate public behavior, as...

of a celebritys medical information and so on, there has been prompt attention to security by the law. There are many situations ...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

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

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

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

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...