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Medical Legalization of Marijuana

not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...

Overview of Pheochromocytoma

1499). The condition is diagnosed through testing. The doctor will test "blood and urine for abnormal amounts of the substance ...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Male and Female Circumcision

Female circumcision, almost unknown in Western cultures, is mainly found...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Medicine and Physics

by many" (Gould, 2003). By design, the equipment is seven feet tall by seven feet wide by ten feet long, considered by some to be...

Case of Conjoined Twins Mary and Jodie

judge did indeed have the right. I happen to think that the parents of these children were acting irresponsibly. There is no que...

Artificial Insemination Dilemmas

process that has been practiced for several years, but it has become simpler - and therefore more complicated - in recent years. ...

Emergency Medical Personnel and PTSD

that are now associated with post traumatic stress disorder (National Center for PTSD, 2000). It was called Da Costas Syndrome in ...

Case Study on Personal Finance

Therefore, each needs sufficient life insurance initially to pay of their individuals and the joint liabilities. There is also the...

Using Medical Marijuana

number of states. Predictably, this has caused a great deal of controversy. This paper considers the following questions: What con...

Tort Claim Law in Florida

the legal process. They provide a vitally necessary mechanism by which individuals can hold governmental institutions responsible ...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

EMR Software: Comparison and Analysis

it seems clear to many that physical storage of data is on the way out. Libraries at corporations and universities across the worl...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Impact on the Narrator

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

Medical Transport and the Impact of Economic Forecasts

forecast the US economy to grow by 2.1% in 2010 and 2.4% in 2011 (Goldman Sachs, 2009). There does appear to be an agreement regar...

Steps Towards Electronic Medical Records

wonder many private companies are attempting to break into it, particularly since the writing on the wall seems to suggest more an...

The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

EMR IMPLEMENTATION - AN OVERVIEW

This is not to suggest, however, that everything would be rosy with EMR implementation. For one thing, EMR hardware and software a...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Charting the Stages of an Insurance Claim Adjudication

The paper is made up of a flowchart created based on information is applied by the student, demonstrating the different stages tha...

Assisted Suicide - Taking a Contrary View

issue that has the potential to affect all of us. Recently, this issue has come under the spotlight with several media sources run...

Ways to Improve Patient Intake Efficiency

is devoted to the intake of new patients frequently constitutes the "greatest time sink in a physicians practice" (Noffsinger, 200...

HEALTH CARE ISSUE: RIGHT TO DIE

stopped (Quill, 2005). The question was centered around what Terri would have wanted - and it was here that Michael Schiavo and Te...

Medical Model and Psychology

in the 19th century. G. Stanley Hall was strongly influenced by Darwins theories of evolution. It was the catalyst for Halls scie...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...