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Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

Contemporary Nursing's History

as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Ancient Greek Women and the Effects of Medicine, Law, and Architecture

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

Pharmacology Industry Businessman Interview

Given the ability to enact change within the industry, where is the best place to start? A. Establishing proper ethical guideline...

Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine

in fact no particular system that is called holism (1999). Rather, holistic medicine is really alternative. At the same time, ther...

Herbal Medicine and Environmental Pollution

the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Socialized Medicine in America

own economic self-interests, and unfortunately, this does not necessarily mean that their actions are in the best interest of the ...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Force and William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force'

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

Medical Treatment, Complimentary Alternative Medicine

a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...

Overview of Homeopathic Medicine

a natural and interactive manner, while at the same time working toward prevention. While the Medical Association has typically h...

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...

Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

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

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

involves the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. In more advanced technology radioactive materials are int...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. Various types of cancer, for example, are being treated quite succ...