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Essays 331 - 360

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

Right to Die Issues of Public Policy

In eight pages this paper considers 'right to die' issues of public policy and includes group and elite theories as well as increm...

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

Physicians and Distribution of Drug Samples

In five pages drug sample distribution to physicians are examined in terms of the supply chain, representatives' involvement, and ...

Ethical Considerations with Regard to Randomized Clinical Trials

depression, schizophrenia, etc. (Weijer and Anderson, 2001). These trials are justified via the rationalization that such...

AMA, Ethics, and PAS

of the term does the taking of a life, or the assistance to take ones own life, fall under the definition in anyones dictionary of...

Debate on Euthanasia Legalization

often, years of pain, suffering and despair (Paris, 1997). Patients like Karen Ann Quinlan were trapped by technology that could w...

Euthanasia or PAS

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

PAS and Ethics

Granted, the pain may subside temporarily, but the patient realizes that the relief does not lead to a permanent remission; rather...

Medical Experts and the Decline in Trust

to change the class they fit into more so than at any time in the past. In addition to this there has also been an amendment in th...

Physician Drug Freebies and Ethics

first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...

Relationship Between Physicians and Advanced Practice Nurses

has in place, one in which nurse practitioners are working together in harmony and respect. Relationship History During t...

Kant, Ethics, Drug Companies, and Drug Sales

as it impedes upon the fundamental tenets of social responsibility. Doctors who accept these gifts - which might include but is n...

Texas Physicians and Nurse Practitioners

and the American Nurses Association found somewhat "paternalistic and demeaning" as the guide determined that "the physician is re...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Hamlet and Psychoanalysis

the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...

Operating Room Communication Between Physician and Nurse

The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...

The Continuing Evolution of Advanced Practice Nursing

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Argument to Legalize Physician Assisted Suicide

from the medical professionals. Even his family agrees and begs for the professionals to withhold treatment. The doctor agrees. Bu...

Medical Education Continuation

true in the medical profession; today it is critical. At the same time, everyone is more pressed for time than in the past....

Lexington, Kentucky's Veterans Administration Medical Center Issues Regarding Benefits and Payroll

already present. Richard J. Griffin, the VAs Inspector General, reported to Congress in May 2003 that the VA has been inves...

Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

beneficial in considering their application for prediction models and medical research. Reflecting on the utility of these system...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Secondary and High Schools' Emergency Plans

In six pages various emergency plans are examined at the secondary and high school levels and include athlete physical examination...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Nurse Practitioner Perceptions

In five pages this paper examines nurse practitioners in a discussion of differing perceptions between nurses and physicians regar...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Role in Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

on this journey is Michael Betzold, author of Appointment With Dr. Death, in which he rivets our attention to Dr. Kevorkian as he ...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...