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Smoke Cigarettes Mental Hospital
1,114 words
... One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest is written by;
This book is about several patients in a mental
hospital who succeed in realizing the harm it
caused them by an under cover patient Mcmurphy.
While reading this book you will begin to realize
that the power shifts from the nurse; Ms. Ratched
to a patient named Mcmurphy in many different
ways. Mcmurphy breaks the rules, sticks up for the
patients, and shows them that they are like any
body else living in the world. Mcmurphy brakes the
rules by tak...
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Dana Told Told Dana Felt
447 words
Several months ago my best friend, Dana McFarland,
tried to do a terrible thing. She tried to take
her own life by overdosing on some pills. I was
really shocked when I found out. I asked her why
she didnt let anyone know how she was feeling. She
replied, I felt like no one would understand. I
told her she could always talk to me about
anything, and I would do my best to try and help
her. Dana told me that she had felt really
depressed for weeks. She also told me she didnt
know why she had been ...
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Hospice Care Medical Record
1,920 words
As we have learned, the hospice idea is not new.
Literally meaning "given to hospitality, "
hospices provided comfort, kindness, and
nourishment to people in need hundreds of years
ago. Today, hospices offer comfort to people as
they near the end of life's journey. Hospice is a
special way of caring for people with terminal
illnesses and their families. It is a
multidisciplinary health care program that is
responsible for palliative and supportive care
with consideration of the patient's and fam...
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Form Of Depression Electroshock Therapy
1,352 words
... are often thought to have a connection with
depression, when in actuality troubles sleeping is
associated with the aging process or a medical
condition rather than with depression.
Contributing factors include the loss of a spouse
or close friends, chronic pain and illness,
difficulty with mobility, frustration with memory
loss, difficulty adapting to changing
circumstances such as moving from a home to a
retirement facility, or changes within the family.
Depression can also be a sign of a m...
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Physician Assisted Suicide End Their Lives
2,009 words
The issue of physician-assisted suicide has come
to be one of the most controversial legal issues
in recent history. In my opinion I think that the
law is designed to lay out guidelines for the
social conduct of individuals in society. Yet,
within this definition there are extremes on both
ends of the spectrum in which the law encompasses.
The question of whether or not physicians can
legally prescribe and administer lethal doses of
medication to mentally competent patients who
suffer from the i...
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Hemp Seed Oil Red Blood Cells
2,632 words
... Furthermore, these drugs have terrible side
effects encompassing bone softening, reduced
production of red blood cells, swelling of the
gums, and emotional disturbances. Overdoses my
cause rapid uncontrollable eye movements, loss of
motor coordination, coma, and even death. Studies
have shown that treatment with cannabis is
extremely successful. Here is a case of a 24
-year-old man, a sufferer of epilepsy: "With the
phenytoin (prescription medication), I had about
one seizure a week. After s...
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Symptoms Are Controlled Thought Disorder Schizophrenia
400 words
Schizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of
the most disabling and emotionally devastating
illnesses known to man. However, because it has
been misunderstood for so long, it has received
relatively little attention and its victims have
been un deservingly stigmatized. Schizophrenia is
not a split personality, a rare and very different
disorder. Like cancer and diabetes, schizophrenia
has a biological basis. Schizophrenia is, in fact,
a relatively common disease, with an estimated 2.
5 milli...
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Should Stimulants Be Prescribed For Adhd Children
739 words
In this day and age, drugs are being prescribed
without hesitation. In fact, many of these drugs
are being prescribed for children with various
disorders. One of these disorders is called
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
An estimated five to ten percent of children are
diagnosed with this syndrome (Taylor 11). One of
the methods to treat this disorder is to use
stimulants, specifically Ritalin. This method is
controversial because it has many side effects and
its long-term effect...
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American Psychiatric Association Children With Adhd
1,701 words
'Why didn't the ADHD boy introduce his girlfriend
to any of his friends? A) He can't remember her
name; or better yet, How would they diagnose ADD
in a chicken? A) It never gets all the way across
the road because of all the distractions. You
could say growing up was hard; everyday I had to
endure cruel teeny bopping teenagers who didnt
understand my condition. What really made it hard
was that I didnt even understand my condition.
Seven years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD or
Attention Deficit/ ...
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Behavioral Observations Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1,151 words
... g something horrible such as harming,
offending, or embarrassing you or someone else
(Summers, 1999). Of course, there are many more
obsessions, and some are less common than others.
Other obsessions are religious, sexual, or somatic
obsessions, and others involve a need for order
and symmetry (Summers, 1999). The important thing
to remember is that although "As Good As It Gets"
is a comedy, there is not a one funny thing about
obsessions. To someone who has OCD, obsessions are
intrusions in...
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Alternatives To Animal Animal Testing
1,807 words
The application of animals to test a large number
of products from household compounds and cosmetics
to Pharmaceutical products has been considered to
be a normal strategy for many years. Laboratory
animals are generally used in three primary
fields: biomedical research, product security
evaluation and education. (Animal Experiments) It
has been estimated that approximately, 20 million
animals are being used for testing and are killed
annually; about 15 million of them are used to
test for medic...
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Epidural And Natural Childbirth
1,530 words
Epidural and Natural Childbirth Childbirth is
principal and very important mission for every
woman. Every future mum looks forward to happiness
of bringing a new person to this world, and to joy
of seeing him growing up and developing. But at
the same time every pregnant woman is usually very
anxious about the severe pain and suffering, which
always accompany the whole long process of natural
childbirth. Modern medical technologies offer some
opportunities to cope with the pain by using, for
exa...
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Public School System Invasion Of Privacy
2,393 words
A little over two years ago, one of the worst
tragedies concerning our nation? s children was
playing out in a small rural town in Colorado. The
date was April 20, 1999; the anniversary of Adolf
Hitler? s Birthday, for any history buffs. But for
everyone else the day started out like any other.
In Jefferson County (often mistakenly reported as
being in Littleton), Colorado, children went to
school and parents went off to work. Neither was
overly concerned about the other, or about how the
day wo...
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Sense Of Thirst Dehydration
256 words
Dehydration is more serious in the summer for most
people, unless you are sixty-five years or older.
There are a couple of reasons for this. The bodies
of the elderly are comprised of 50 % water, while
the bodies of younger people are comprised of 75 %
water. Some elderly are weak and may find it
trying to get up and walk. Others may be in
wheelchairs and simply can not get out that
easily. For these reasons some older people
restrict the water that they intake to cope with
incontinence or so th...
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Ct Scan Five Minutes
1,720 words
Epilepsy In this report I plan to give a general
overview of what epilepsy is. I will try to give
examples and types of seizures, treatments, and in
general some insight into the whole subject
matter. Many people regard epileptic seizures as a
disease while, in fact, they are not. A disease
rather is more an illness, which tends to imply
sickness and being in poor health. Since epilepsy
certainly is not that I don t think it has any
reference or relativity to the term disease. Since
there really...
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Left The Room Vital Signs
1,080 words
The Sound of Silence I have attended to many
deaths in my short career as a nurse. I guess that
is the hardest part of geriatric nursing. I
remember one man in particular, Joe . He was a
veteran of World War II, and a retired mechanic.
He was nearly 90 when I met him. His beloved wife
of 45 years, Sara, had died only months earlier.
He was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD). In this disease, the
lungs lose their elasticity and begin to fill up
with fluid. Eventually, a p...
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Identity Theory Vice Versa
852 words
The identity theory, also known as reductive
materialism, is one of the views Churchland uses
to describe mind-brain correlation. Churchland
believes that the mental states of the body are
one and in the same (double aspects) with brain
states. They are the same because the biochemical
actions produced in brain states (release of
serotonin and acetylcholine) have direct
interaction with the mental states (mood disorders
such as depression). With the help of
psychological and physiological eviden...
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Doesn T Exist Auditory Hallucinations
1,837 words
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is
characterized by a variety of symptoms and the
disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an
incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet
whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young,
1988, p. 13 - 14) This topic was chosen because it
is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide,
is viewed as a classic example of madness and
insanity. Another reason of interest is because
unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn t have
a noticeabl...
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Schizophrenia Illness Patient
467 words
My Proposal Schizophrenia is a disastrous mental
illness present in 1 % of the world? s population.
Doctors are still unsure of the causes of
schizophrenia, and no medical cure has been
discovered for this illness. Physicians have
developed medical treatments, although the problem
is getting the patient to stay on the medication,
which contains many side affects. Many alternative
medications have been tested for instance
marijuana is believed to help schizophrenics
battle their illness. Schizoph...
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Symptoms Are Controlled Thought Disorder Schizophrenia
400 words
Schizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of
the most disabling and emotionally devastating
illnesses known to man. However, because it has
been misunderstood for so long, it has received
relatively little attention and its victims have
been un deservingly stigmatized. Schizophrenia is
not a split personality, a rare and very different
disorder. Like cancer and diabetes, schizophrenia
has a biological basis. Schizophrenia is, in fact,
a relatively common disease, with an estimated 2.
5 milli...
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