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General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

Cross Functional Counseling and Factors That Are Effective

(Schrag, 1995; Hunt, Soto, Maier & Doering, 2003). Nelson (2002) takes this one step further by pointing to a body of resea...

Stem Cells Research Use and Business Ethics

cells under specific condition, hence their presence in embryos and foetuses, they develop into whatever cells are required for th...

Separating Fact from Fiction in an Overview of Hypnosis

their brains even in the fully awake conscious state of mind (Choudhury 2004). In fact, many have agreed that as much as seven-eig...

Medical and Consumer Company Johnson and Johnson

story that demonstrates how J&J put ethical theory into actual practice was the Tylenol story from the early 1980s. At tha...

SWOT Analysis of St. Jude Medical, Inc.

in the industry. * The company is profitable and is well managed. * Its alliance with Johnson and Johnson gives it access to a wid...

Global Trade Issues

a replacement this would be a negative impact. The product is used as a guiding tool as well as diagnosis. Here there may be reco...

Overview of Conjoined Twins

so that two embryos form, one on either side of the constriction point(Twins 2003). One may deduce from these early studies, then,...

A Potentially Compromising Situation in Business and a Solution Alternative

intent for Liss included both intracompany pursuits and as a key in relationships with the companys outside vendors. McDevice had...

Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

that there are positive consequences in organ transplant. Organ transplant gives life to those previously destined to an early de...

Clincal Practice Guidelines and Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in Children

Such statistics demonstrate that it is important for healthcare professionals, especially those associated involved with the treat...

Medical Legalization of Marijuana

not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...

Jewish Medical Experimentation by the Nazis

(1988, p.PG). They wanted to form a master race that would eventually rule the world (1988, p. PG). The Nazis, after rounding up J...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

Medical Profession's Cultural Clashes in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

Issues of Middle Age and Male Baby Boomers

Clearly, there are many issues which correlate to this particular group, namely a host of health concerns which are becoming more ...