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through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

brain and how learning takes place supports moving away from a "mechanistic/Newtonian paradigm" that relies primarily on teacher-d...

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

pioneering work of Paracelsus (1493-1541) and how it is the dose that makes something toxic; how toxicants are classified; and wha...

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

The problem is, this is too simplistic a viewpoint. Universal coverage involves more than putting the entire cumbersome system int...

congresses Schwarzeneggers They are unlike to pass. Consider one more state - Massachusetts which passed a universal health care p...

fact that Ross, who is associated with an established clinic, recommends this procedure and offers her an example of how this can ...

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

The IT consultant reports that the hospital has more than 1500 personal computers and that anything they can do to improve them tr...

higher for smokers when compared to people who have never smoked (Reibel 643). Globally, oral cancer is the eighth most common dia...

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

While some of the European health care system share many similarities with socialized medicine, the US system of health care is ba...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

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

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

per week, which is a strategy designed to improve access to care and achieving NHS target goals. The NHS has established HNAs as a...

But what is the deal when these cells multiply, and why is this bad? Normal cells are needed to keep the body healthy - when they ...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

television commercials to scare the public (Greene, 2008). The couple, Harry and Louise, was sitting at their kitchen table mockin...

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

outgoing because of the particular medication. And yes, the commercials list the side effects, but usually as an afterthought. Bec...

is eventually taken. Afterward, I reflect on how my choice turned out and, if I could do it over again, the factors that I might c...