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Health Care Costs Teenage Smoking
1,605 wordsThis is a story about Stephanie. When she was 16 she had her first cigarette, in the back of her friends car. Her friend lit up a cigarette for herself and then offered Stephanie one. Stephanie knew that smoking was bad for you, but everyone else she knew had tried it. She wanted to feel like she fit in. She smoked the cigarette and thought to herself, "Hey, this is pretty cool. I feel so relaxed. Two years later, Stephanie was a senior and smoking a pack a day. She found it hard to make it thro...
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State And Federal Prison Population
473 wordsOne of America's biggest problems today is the overcrowding of prisons. This began when the population of inmates started to soar in the 1980 's. With the increase of rapist, murderers, and drug dealers skyrocketing, there is no reason to this overpopulation. The nation responds to this by building prison at a fast pace. But the construction has not kept pace with the soaring population of inmates. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal correctional authorise at the end of 199...
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Gun Control Laws Washington D C
1,938 wordsGun Control, a term that refers to the management of firearms in an effort to reduce the criminal use of these weapons. (MICROSOFT (R) ENCARTA 1995) In the early 1990 s there were more than 200 million privately owned guns in the United States, which makes it plain to see why there are arguments for and against even the smallest amount of gun control. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, guarantees "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. "...
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Elderly Patients High Risk
1,346 wordsWithin the health care arena there is a growing concern about the needs of the elderly. Families wonder if their loved ones are getting the proper care that they need With the growing costs of health care and the decreasing resources of primary care physicians it is feared that only the physical needs of the patient are met. Concerns rise about the social psychological and environmental needs or the elderly. A study by Barbara Berkman and associates tries to provide some answers to people concer...
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Medical Doctor Young Woman
670 wordsWhy do women decide to be in the nursing field? There are different reasons to why women decide to become nurses. Nurses support health, put a stop to diseases, and help the patients deal with their illnesses. The nurse is an advocate and health educationalist for patients, family unit, and communities. They observe, put emphasis, and record the symptoms, reactions, and improvement of a patient. A nurse is a person who endows with medical treatment and help people of all ages to get good health....
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Health Care Provider Spinal Cord
1,556 wordsRabies, a virus of the nervous system and salivary glands is a fast moving killer; its not something to mess around with. Rabies comes from the Latin word to rage. Rabies is easily associated with rage. When people think of rabies, they usually think of a mad raccoon or dog, foaming at the mouth and running around crazy; dying soon after. The thought of going crazy is a pretty reasonable guess for how rabies torments its victims. The virus enters through a bite or transfer of infected saliva and...
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Conventional Medicine Side Effects
1,252 wordsSamuel Hahnemann, a brilliant German medical doctor and chemist, developed the science of homeopathy at the end of the 18 th century. He was responding, in part, to his concern that more people were dying from medical treatments than from their diseases. Hahnemann believed that the purpose of medical therapy should be to restore health quickly, gently and permanently in the least harmful manner without toxic side-affects or the suppression of symptoms which would only return. His work and princi...
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Communications Technology Global Information Infrastructure
2,381 words... munications. APEC members include not only the industrialized economies of Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Canada, but also countries with much greater gaps in their infrastructure, such as China, Thailand, and the Philippines. Gill: Promise or hype? Against this background, why all the hyperbole about electronic superhighways? Several themes recur in these information infrastructure initiatives. There are dual assumptions that converging technologies will result in information serv...
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Free Market Economy Code Of Ethics
1,594 wordsBefore diving into the depths of Utilitarianism let me first lay the foundation on which ethical philosophy is based. When conducting any type of business in todays society it is generally expected that you follow a strict code of ethics. In my profession as a Real Estate Agent we have a very specific Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice that must be followed. Without these descriptive ethics many of the benefits we have in our free market economy would be jeopardized. Once the descriptive e...
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Herbal Remedies African Americans
1,299 wordsUnderstanding that everyone is different, will greatly improve our willingness as a society and as a people to accept change. What any given care provider deems correct may not be a shared views by all, or even a select few. Generalizations tend not to work for most of life, however in Bioethics, we base everything on generalizations, and from time to time, specific cases. Controversies arise when what a patient wants differs from what the care provider deems necessary and at times crucial. Most...
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House Of Representatives Members Of Congress
1,570 wordsManaging Stakeholders: The Value of Compromise It is recognized in every organization that efficient and effective performance to attain the organizations goal involves a great deal of stakeholder management. Whether large or limited in scope and membership, there is no exemption to the benefits of properly managing the concerns of the stakeholders or on the other end, the perils induced by a mismanaged stakeholder constituency. In this paper, I will show how the mismanagement of a particular st...
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Medical Services American College
1,573 wordsIn a perfect world, violence, plane crashes floods and other disasters would not occur. Disease and illness would be non-existent. Emergency medical services would not have a basis for fruition. Unfortunately, the world is not perfect place. EMTs and other EMS workers are vital to all societies globally. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, the definition of an emergency services is, Emergency services are those health care services provided to evaluate and treat medical co...
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U S Department Health Care Costs
2,865 wordsThe Decriminalization of Steroids Everyone has a view on steroids whether or not it is shaped by mass media, schools, or peers. Not many people have a realistic idea of what steroids really are and what they do. I spent a few hours in various diet and fitness related chat rooms on the net while doing this paper and found out that the common stereotype is that all steroids are harmful and produce breasts. Some people believe supplements such as creatine and weight gain powder are steroids, which ...
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Civil Liberties Cold War
857 wordsWhen I think of the word democracy, I think of Government. Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. This means that Government must protect the basic rights, or liberties, of all people. This is the system of government that United States are base on. The United States, Cuba, and Democracy During the Clinton administration, the sentiment has been proclaimed on so m...
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Morally And Ethically Insurance Companies
507 wordsDoctoring the Truth. The New Republic. Nov 15, 1999. P 13. Is it ethical for doctors to bend the truth in order to get an insurance company to pay for medical treatment? According to this article, most doctors do. A survey has shown that 58 % of doctors say that they would be willing to give an insurance company deliberately deceptive documentation to influence the companys decision to approve surgery or other treatment for a life-threatening illness. These doctors believe that if they did not l...
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Health Care Services Gay And Lesbian Community
716 wordsProtease inhibitors. For more than a decade, researches and physicians tried to develop new treatment to fight HIV. They came up with some drugs; however, these drugs have proved to be usefulness. They did not cured HIV, but slowed it down. Today, a new class of drugs is providing a New Hope against fighting HIV: protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors are antiviral drugs. They interrupt the way HIV uses a healthy cell to make more viruses. When HIV enters a normal healthy cell, its concerned w...
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Substance Abuse Psychiatric Disorders
1,625 wordsThere are many theories of alcoholism, and some approaches explain and treat certain alcoholics better than others. One of the common themes throughout the readings is that addicts display a range of personal and situational problems. There is no typical addicted personality or emotional problem (Allen, 1996). Because of these facts, it comes as no surprise that there are also no typical assessment or treatment for these individuals. For instance, a medical / disease model of alcoholism may be m...
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Family And Friends Assisted Suicide
2,295 wordsOne of the Euthanasia Euthanasia One of the most recent political issues that has come up has been euthanasia. Being form Michigan I am very familiar with this topic, since we just had a proposition to legalize assisted-suicide. I am a strong supporter of euthanasia, and feel that it is a person right to end their suffering if they feel that it is too great to live with. Euthanasia is tolerated in the medical field under certain circumstances when a patient is suffering profoundly and death is i...
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Hippocratic Oath Assisted Suicide
1,031 wordsFew issues in medical ethics are as highly debated as death and euthanasia. The topic raises questions including who has the right to take a life and under what circumstances they may do so. Furthermore, it examines under what conditions a person is perceived as being dead or as having no quality of life left. Since the days of the ancient Greek philosophers, medical topics have rarely remained as controversial as euthanasia. From the Hippocratic Oath to the most recent of journal entries, the o...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Euthanasia Euthanasia
1,983 wordsMrs. Euthanasia Heather Morris Mrs. Julie Helm English 103 / 7 November 2, 2000 Euthanasia Euthanasia has become a controversial subject. It is a Greek word, that means easy death, broken down into origins EU means good and Thanatos means death. Therefore, this word also means good death. Euthanasia's definition is the intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request of the person who dies. This implies that the act must be initiated by the person who wishes to commit suicide. ...
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