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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 wordsSeveral 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 wordsAs 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSchizophrenia, 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsEpidural 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 wordsA 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 wordsDehydration 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 wordsEpilepsy 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsSchizophrenia 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 wordsMy 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 wordsSchizophrenia, 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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