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Medical Practice and Customer Service

patient and the medical practice but for the physicians mental well-being also. INITIATING ACTION In order to give the best in p...

Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Biomedical to Biopsychosocial Medical Evolution

Thanks to the efforts of professional like Engels, there is a new direction in medicine which emphasizes the concept that healing ...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Medical Treatment, Parents, Religion and the Law

even her mother and father over whether she should get blood transfusions to treat her leukemia. Doctors say that without the trea...

1998's Aviation Medical Assistance Act

In five pages this Act is discused in detail as are its purposes, passenger benefits and resulting legislation. Five sources are ...

Organizational Overview of The Society for Medical Decision Making

and practice of the past two decades" (Eisenberg, 2001, p. 12). A particularly pertinent aspect of the research process off...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

Modern Organizations and Nursing Leaders

Medical Center, all of which are included in Clinical Operations. All of these nurses are RNs, and all hold the office of Vice Pr...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Hamot Medical Center Organizational Analysis

northeastern Ohio. It is not only a general care facility but maintains many patient-oriented programs and services. Some of the...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

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...

Tutorial on Medical Training Improvements

Oftentimes, when a patient arrived at the clinic for their appointment, they were told that their charts could not be found and th...

Should Animal Testing Continue or Be Stopped?

Imperial Chemical Industries, contends that animal testing, whether one likes it or not, is a legal requirement. Dr. Charles Mayo...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

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...