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Surgical and Medical Patients and the Value of Sleep

In two pages this paper summarizes and reviews a journal article in which the importance of sleep for medical patients is argued b...

Overview of Graves' Disease

In five pages this paper exaines the impacts of Graves' Disease on the economic system and the medical community. Four sources ar...

Costly Medical Interventions Should There Be Limitations Placed Upon Them?

fact is that many high tech procedures are rarely performed on the elderly. Aggressive cardiovascular procedures and cancer chemot...

Medical Use of Marijuana and California's Proposition 215

In a paper consisting of ten pages the inhumanity of denying marijuana for medical use in cancer, AIDS and paraplegic patients is ...

Osteoporosis, Gout, Cancer, and the Impact of Nutrition

In twenty one pages this paper discusses the impact of nutrition upon such medical conditions as cancer, gout, and osteoporosis. ...

Acupuncture Overview

In seven pages the medical option known as acupuncture is discussed in an overview that includes history, treatment approaches, ef...

Perfusionists

perfusionist education.) The current certification process, which is overseen by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Emerging Standards of Culturally Competent Care

to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Hoshin Planning Specific to Mortality Rates for Medical Conditions

screenings, and could be admitted to hospitals for rather routine reasons. Today, many individuals are quite ill when they finall...

BUSINESS PLAN EVALUATION -- FOSSA MEDICAL

this benchmark assessment in this section comes in the area of personnel. There is no urologist mentioned -- and given that one of...

BUDGET CUTS AND MEDICAID ANALYSIS

health outcomes (Wilson, 2006). Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma are at issue as well (Wilson, 2006). Also, a...

Reaction Paper on a Case Study

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Statistical Analysis of Research Results

same result can come from a wide variety of underlying results. It may be that the underlying results are density population, all ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Medical Knowledge/Medieval Europe v. Arab World

texts, such as the works of Hippocrates and Galen, were held by the Roman Catholic Church, whose policies toward medicine were des...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

Stark Laws And Other Issues

is referred for tests, a medical code is given to that referral (Dietrich, n.d.). If a clinic of several physicians, for example, ...

THE LEGALITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MEDICAL CARE

beliefs by refraining from eating," the court didnt agree. The court held that even if the children were mature enough to exercise...

The Intersection of HR Planning and Recruiting

conducted a ten-year study of small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and "concluded that HRM practices ... are the most power...

Illustrative Paper on Animal Testing for Medical Purposes

humans suffering a particular disease. Many researchers maintain that animal DNA and human DNA are so similar, that test results ...

Hunting Humans

they must be understood in the context of society as a whole. Because it is their relationship to society-or their inability to fi...

EMTALA and Illegal Aliens

to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kro...

Animal Testing: A Critical Part Of Medical Advancement

al, 2008, p. 2797). Logically speaking, the use of animals in medical experimentation removes the torture inherent to the only v...