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Marriage Rights, Medical Benefits, and Gay Marriage

It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

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....

The Initiative for Integrating Healthcare Enterprises

to meet all the competitive needs of health care organizations in a capitalistic environment: the Integrating Healthcare Enterpris...

Assessment of the United Kingdom as an FDI Host Nations for R&D in Biotechnology

development facility. It is assumed that one country that the firm will not consider is Germany. The existing partnership is in th...

US Army Burn Center - The Case for Electronic Health Records

major wars since. The Burn Unit itself has cared for more than 800 soldiers since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, and frequ...

Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement

what areas of the organization are receiving what amount of funding, as well as how much revenue is generated by each of the areas...

Quality Improvement and Decision Support Systems

Lastly, it will go into detail on the actual design and implementation of such a system, and address the value it might deliver to...

Cultural Barriers are a Hindrance in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

been removed. Likewise, one may look at a culture, seeing only the outward manifestations, but without removing barriers it is imp...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

Malaria's Medical Geography

vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale and P. falciparum, with the first and last strains representing the most common; the last is also the...

Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer in the U.S. is considered with the primary focus being types of medical treatm...

An Emergency Medical Services Overview

or has been found floating in the water for example. Local first aid squads are often dispatched by the police departments and ...

Overview of the Crack Babies Problem

why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Grief and a Breast Cancer Mastectomy

likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English

that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry anywhere near the same weight as those b...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

Nazi Medical Experiments

pain and often humiliation, and the experiments would usually be fatal (Cohen, 2002). The justification for the research was ide...

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...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Informed Consent and Issues of Medical Ethics

physicians, theologians, and lawyers in founding journals, research centers, hospital and medical school committees, departments, ...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Overview of the Medical Condition Known as Epilepsy

the brain occurs and this results in electrical discharges in the brain, a condition that is not normal ("epilepsy.com" PG) . Duri...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...