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Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

HIPAA Rights And Their Impact Upon Medical Errors In The Emergency Room

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...

Ethics and medical technologies

are a number of research initiatives which deal with genetic mapping, therapy, and modification. Gene mapping, which is fundamenta...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Deafness and Differing Perceptions

of the physical changes that can be made to repair or improve a deaf persons ability to perceive sound. For example, the developme...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MISSION STATEMENTS

(Owens-White Outpatient Rehabilitation Center); cancer (Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center) and maternity/womens i...

Euthanasia

do their loved ones wish, helping them die more nobly. But, that is a personal issue, and although illegal, is not an issue that, ...

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN OF BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER BURN UNIT

can be defined as "a formal, guided process for integrating the people, information and technology of an organization" (Autrey, 19...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

Comparison Of Oakwood Southshore Medical Center And Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital

with the patient. The extent to which cancer is as much an emotional disease as it is a physical one, Oakwoods cancer center stri...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

Problem at the Re Creation Medical Practice

services (Re Creation, 2009). The centre has the facilities to undertake minor surgical procedures, such as the removal of moles a...

Chronic Illness Management

of a medical crisis is prudent, but being prepared is imperative. For example, some physicians will prescribe certain medication f...

A COMPARISON OF MEDICAL DATA SYSTEMS, NOW AND 20 YEARS AGO

is relying a great deal on up-to-date information systems and instantaneous information to ensure that patients can receive the be...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

Two Journal Articles on Colic

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

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...

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...

Medicine and Physics

by many" (Gould, 2003). By design, the equipment is seven feet tall by seven feet wide by ten feet long, considered by some to be...

Schizophrenia and Genetics

Study to Hunt for Genetic Causes, 2003). However, while there are medications to treat these conditions and reduce sympt...

Pros and Cons of Medical Malpractice Suit Capping

used quite frequently by supporters of caps are that todays medical liability has meant skyrocketing rates for medical malpractice...

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...

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...

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....

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

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...

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...