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Child And Adolescent Children And Adolescents
1,546 wordsAdolescent depression continues to be a growing American problem since its discovery in the 1970 s. How exactly to treat this problem, however, is not a clear issue. For years the psychiatric community felt that psychotherapy was the best way to treat this growing epidemic. However, with the development of antidepressants, most famously Prozac, many people feel the problem is nearing a solution. Many psychiatrists believe these pills can be a quick and effective way to treat suffering adolescent...
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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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Physician Assisted Suicide Euthanasia Should Be Legalized
2,084 wordsThe aim of the paper is to find reasons why euthanasia should be legalized. Pro and contra views on legalization of physician-assisted suicide are discussed. The topic is discussed from the ethical point of view. Outline Introduction Discussion legal issues history Kevorkian movement Opinions supporting and undermining euthanasia Conclusion Why Euthanasia Should Be Legalized? Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide is one of those debates that would never end. It is also one of the most signifi...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Euthanasia Should Be Legalized
1,724 wordsWhy Euthanasia Should Be Legalized Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide is one of those debates that would never end. It is also one of the most significant issues in the contemporary medical ethics, since it changes greatly the relationship between doctor and his patient. While a lot of people think that euthanasia is against medical ethics and should not be legalized, actually it is better to have a person dead than suffering for many years without any hopes to recover. Within the course o...
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Medical Records Family Physicians
2,164 wordsThe Internet Age Influence on Electronic Medical Records The Internet has affected many industries around the globe, and its effects are ever growing. Medicine is no exception from this paradigm; various aspects of medical practice have been affected by the World Wide Web. One of the most heated controversies in the medical field now is Electronic Medical Records; this issue has triggered an array of contradicting responses from various experts. Within the scope of this research, we will elabora...
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Cost Benefit Analysis J P
2,175 words... healthcare payer-issued ID cards to Internet-based patient medical demographics files that can be downloaded and merged onto the complaints visit form, eliminating the need for the patient to continually fill in things like their name, address, birthdate, insurance carrier, policy numbers, telephone numbers, etc. At most the patient can edit this information retrieved from their ID cards or Internet demographic files, and simply check off the symptoms, presenting complaints or services sched...
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Hours Per Week American Medical Association
3,045 wordsAfter years of discussion, the system of training resident physicians in the United States has finally undergone substantial changes. As of July 1, 2003, more but not all residents were limited to 80 hours of work per week, averaged over a four-week period. The new requirements are part of a general effort to improve the safety of patients and the working conditions and education of residents. They are also designed to forestall federal regulation that could take away some of the authority of th...
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The Emergence Of Managed Health Care
1,747 wordsThe emergence of managed health care In this paper I want to investigate the emergence of managed health care and its influence on health care pros and cons. First of all I want to define what is the managed health care is. I think that it easier to discuss subject when we know what exactly we are going to discuss. Concepts of managed health care are used widely around the world, not only in US, in many places it can be seen as useful approaches to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of h...
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U S Food Food And Drug Administration
1,614 wordsExamination of the Ph RMA Guidelines on Direct-to-consumer Advertising Every year many people die because of medical mistakes. It makes specialists to adopt several valuable solutions. These solutions are directed to give uptodate information about clinical innovations and drug interaction. Patients will have an opportunity to get the information, and it helps to ensure them that professionals, who prescribe medicines, get the accurate and latest information about them. But avaliable information...
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Ethical Challenges Truth Telling And Confidentiality
1,429 wordsEthical challenges: truth-telling and confidentiality During the process of patient and doctor relationship there are many questions and problems, which can and should be solved not from the subjective or suitable point of view, but compulsory from the point of professional ethics. The problems of confidentiality and truth-telling in medicine are of those dilemmas which require an ethical approach to be applied. In one of numerous episodes of ER, nurse Carol Hathaway promises two young patients ...
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Health Care Workers Passive Euthanasia
1,799 wordsThe applied ethical issue of euthanasia, or mercy killing, concerns whether it is morally permissible for a third party, such as a physician, to end the life of a terminally ill patient who is in intense pain. The euthanasia controversy is part of a larger issue concerning the right to die. Staunch defenders of personal liberty argue that all of us are morally entitled to end our lives when we see fit. Thus, according to these people, suicide is in principle morally permissible. For health care ...
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Aids Patients Sexual Intercourse
1,584 wordsAIDS, or the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been one of the most threatening diseases of the 20 th century. Ever since it has been discovered in 1981, it has been constantly infecting men, women, adults, newly born children, homosexuals and heterosexuals. In definition AIDS is an extremely serious disorder that results from severe damage to the body? s defense against disease. Even though AIDS was born in an era of sophisticated medical and surgical developments, it still remains incura...
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Physician Assisted Suicide American Medical Association
1,968 wordsEuthanasia Mark T. Maxwell Abstract This paper will define Euthanasia and assisted suicide. Euthanasia is often confused with and associated with assisted suicide, definitions of the two are required. Two perspectives shall be presented in this paper. The first perspective will favor euthanasia or the right to die, the second perspective will favor anti euthanasia, or the right to live. Each perspective shall endeavor to clarify the legal, moral and ethical ramifications or aspects of euthanasia...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Ethical Decision Making
8,330 wordsCORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Because society is fundamentally based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that it is necessary to impart a sense of corporate social responsibility with regard to contemporary commerce. The ethical approaches of purpose, principle and consequence are integral components of business social performance; itemizing these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts tha...
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Health Care Reform Luke
1,562 wordsIntroduction The Fargo, North Dakota healthcare market is served by many different physicians and hospitals. This area includes an eastern North Dakota and a portion of western Minnesota. St. Luke? s Hospital and the Fargo Clinic are both major players in this region. St. Luke? s was a community not-for-profit hospital, and the Fargo Clinic was two separate for-profit corporations. Until recently, they have been operating as separate entities. In 1986, they formed a partnership and proceeded to ...
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Health Care Managed Care
1,655 wordsENGHmo Regulation Mark Miller ENG 101 December 2, 2000 HMO Regulation Health Maintenance Organizations, or HMOs, are a very important part of the American health care system. They involve elements such as beneficial health care programs like Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for the poor. HMOs are sometimes referred to as managed care programs, which involves participation through clinics, physicians and insurance companies. Other essential parts of HMOs include prescription drug plans, such as ...
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Digestive Tract Bowel Movements
3,093 wordsIRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Suffering in Silence Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), is a common disorder of the intestines that affects nearly one out of five people in the United States. According to the book, Irritable Bowel Syndrome &# 038; the Mind-Body-Brain-Gut Connection by William B. Salt II, IBS is the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder. The symptoms include constipation, diarrhea or alternating bouts of both, bloating, abdominal pain and many other problems. Symptoms of irritab...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
4,391 wordsMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banne...
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19 Th Century Medical Profession
790 wordsOn the first day of class, we discussed how modernization has brought the institution of medicine so far. Although the cost of modernization is seen as the social germ, modernization has also brought enormous improvement in health. Modern medicine defies all ancient reason. In primitive societies the division of labor was vague, no real specializing in anything, but over years of experimentation and development, the establishment of medicine was born. We now have overflowing systems of specializ...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
4,569 wordsMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banne...
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