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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...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitation

for a defined period of time" (Morgan, 2006). The 7 year time period applies when a case could not be discovered because of fraud ...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

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...

Technology, Mother Nature, and Ethics

term, or hire a human incubator, or go through various forms of testing and treatments to try to conceive a baby naturally, but so...

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...

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...

Whole Foods or Vitamin Supplements in Treating Hepatitis B

of vitamin supplements results in the extraction of vitamins and the loss of enzymes or coenzymes that exist in foods naturally. ...

An Application to a University's School of Allied Health Professions

coding specialist - is accounted for differently than that of direct labor, and there is no employer arrangement whereby the physi...

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...

Integrated Medical Billing and Management Software, and the Current Life Cycle Stage

The next stage is the market introduction stage there will be low level sales. The people purchasing the product are likely to be ...

Transformational Leadership and Change

others being inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration (Bryant, 2003). As this suggests...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

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...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

Medical Coding and Billing

considered the field as a whole, and shown that it is a growing profession with significant job possibilities, the student should ...

The Intersection of HR Planning and Recruiting

conducted a ten-year study of small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and "concluded that HRM practices ... are the most power...

Illustrative Paper on Animal Testing for Medical Purposes

humans suffering a particular disease. Many researchers maintain that animal DNA and human DNA are so similar, that test results ...