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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Family Medical Leave Human Resource Issue I

In eight pages this paper features the human resource issue of family leave as addressed in the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act....

Overview of Medical Photography

In ten pages this paper examines how the medical profession utilizes photography in a consideration of its applications to diagnos...

Amniocentesis and Amniotic Fluid

In five pages this paper discusses the aspects and medical implications of amniotic fluid and amniocentesis during pregnancy in te...

'How Quackery Sells' by Doctors Jarvis and Barrett

In six pages this paper discusses the article on false alternative medical claims and their dangers as presented by the doctors wh...

Death, Resurrection, and Eternal Life

In seven pages the texts Eternal Life? Life After Death As a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem by Hans Hung and The...

Health Care Applications of the Internet

This paper discusses the medical and health care benefits created by the Internet. This five page paper has eight sources listed ...

Overview of Cranial Osteopathy

the physiological versus psychosomatic basis for results, etc. In essence, Osteopathy is a method of physiological healing ...

Overview of Pain Management

causes the pain to become more intense than it would normally appear if the patient realized it was only triggered by a properly t...

Constitution and Its Strengths and Weaknesses

In seven pages this paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. Constitution and also considers its impact upon the ...

Acute versus Long Term Care and Medical Records

In six pages this paper discusses acute and long term medical records' documentation in terms of differences regarding inclusion. ...

Lisa Steinberg Case of Domestic Abuse

scene when an emergency call had come to the police about six year old Lisa Steinberg (Gross, Powell & Daley, 1987). She had stopp...

The Christian Science Church

book that described her new beliefs entitled Science and Health, which was published in 1875. In 1877, she married Asa Gilbert Edd...

Medical Education Continuation and Distance Learning

In ten pages the medical community is the focus of this examination on the benefits and need for continued education in a consider...

Overview of Cerebral Angiography

developed as a result of the advent of microsurgery onto the medical scene. With the new frontier of microsurgery, which allowed a...

Health Care Change Theories

gained to practice on the job (Kopelman, Olivero, and Hannon, 1997). The specific problem that was addressed was missing patient...

Trying to Find an AIDS Vaccine That is Effective

of Health Margaret Johnston reported that an effective vaccine likely will be available within the next decade (Researchers Say Th...

A Small Office Accounts Receivable Assessment

transactions of approval, charge and payment. Table 1. Files Used Master Files Transaction Files Debtor file Daily Colle...

UK and Changing Attitudes Regarding Informed Consent

encouraging unethical withholding of information and a lack of individual respect. In this relativity recent case there is the d...

Career Paths in Health Information Technology

are the people who make sure these records are accurate. In that we see that a health information technician is perhaps just as va...