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Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

Nature v. Nurture, a Review

It is true that most people still believe that the problems are behavioral rather than medical. This 7 paper explores the issue of...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Health Care Change Theories

gained to practice on the job (Kopelman, Olivero, and Hannon, 1997). The specific problem that was addressed was missing patient...

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...

Veterans' Benefits

into perspective when one considers the fact that benefits are still being paid to offspring and widows of both the Civil War and ...

Cultural Barriers are a Hindrance in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

been removed. Likewise, one may look at a culture, seeing only the outward manifestations, but without removing barriers it is imp...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

An Emergency Medical Services Overview

or has been found floating in the water for example. Local first aid squads are often dispatched by the police departments and ...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Medical Research Project and Ethical Considerations

In five pages a medical research project is examined in terms of ethical considerations regarding specialty medical care employees...

DNR Orders and Medical Ethics

In six pages this report considers medical ethics and the impact of 'do not resuscitate' orders upon patients, their families, the...

Emergency Medical Situations and Family Attendance

In five pages this paper considers family member inclusion or exclusion in various medical situations and the medical and ethical ...

Hepatitis Types and EMS Implications

In four pages hepatitis is discussed in terms of its different types, process of transmission, symptoms, and signs with an evaluat...

Caribbean and African Culture and Medical Considerations

require significant generalizations as to how this broad cultural group interacts with modern medical professionals. One of...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Careers in Health Information

produce accurate medical records and health information will be in increasing demand for some time, according to the Bureau of Lab...

Medical Marijuana

and medical marijuana would be sold in pharmacies and likely grown by pharmaceutical companies. In one particular article it is ...

Medical Coding - Informed Consent Forms

researchers found that persons who had diabetes were often readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge (Robbins and Web...

A Medical Perspective on Abuse

In eight pages medical intervention into instances of domestic violence is examined through statistics that support the contention...

Concept of Medical Futility

In twenty pages legal case law is examined in an argument that opposes medical paternalism and medical futility. Twenty sources a...

California Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exempt Status Assessment

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

Health Care Cost Reduction

In one hundred pages an exhaustive literature review considering how to reduce medical care costs in the United States is presente...

Medical Marijuana

compounds and has been implicated in a high percentage of automobile crashes and workplace accidents" (Medical Marijuana ProCon.or...

Vital Signs/Multi-Ethnic Groups in US

pressure) is a chronic condition that constitutes a major risk element for both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease...

Patient-Centered Medical Homes an Article Analysis

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the article titled Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centere...

Marijuana Bills Introduced by Reps. Blumenauer and Farr

This paper reports the history of the use of marijuana as a medical intervention and when it became illegal in this country. It po...

Technology Implementation at SJMCH, A Case Study

This research paper presents a case study of the implementation of electronic technology at St. Joseph Medical Center at Houston, ...