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

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...

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

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

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...

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

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

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

offer such an important and expensive benefit if they were not required to do so by law. When an individual starts a company, he...

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

large advertising budgets for the purpose of attracting new customers, but many need to place more attention on keeping the custom...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

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

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

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

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...

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

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

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