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American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

Proper Disposal of 'Sharps'

concerning the safe disposal of sharps (Diabetes Monitor, 2006). Many healthcare facilities, particularly those serving diabetic p...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...