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UK and Medical Negligence

the case often cited to explain this. The judge in Bolam ruled that there can be two or more schools of thought in respect to prio...

Overview of Medical Sensors

have long limited patients with glaucoma, hydrocephalus, urinary incontinence, valve failure and chronic heart failure. Bound by ...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...

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...

Medical Marijuana

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

Satellites: Contribution To Technology

and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...

Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Medical School Application

medical professionals. My choice was not a simple one and reflects a solid process of evaluating educational programs, identifyin...

The Politics and Economics of Stem Cell Utilization

fetal stem cells raises the ethical problems surrounding abortion. This presented a scenario where politicians found themselves p...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

Caribbean and African Culture and Medical Considerations

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

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

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...

Medical Law in California California Compassionate Care Act

the belief that only God has the right to end a life. Assisting a patient to die is usurping the position that rightly belongs to...

The Holocaust and the Role of the Medical Community

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

Brooke Army Medical Center Quality Improvement Overview

In a paper of eleven pages, the writer looks at quality improvement in organizations. Brooke Army Medical Center is used as a repr...

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...

The States, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act

This 7 page paper gives an overview of how the ACA changes things in the medical field and how the states reacted as far as Medica...

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, ...

Medical Malpractice, Overview of State Statutes

This research paper discusses issues relevant to medical malpractice tort reform. The statutes of Oregon and Virginia are describe...

Primary Care and Specialists

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

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...