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Resident Physician Stress And Burnout Resident Physicians
1,390 wordsResident Physician Stress and Burnout Resident physicians are in the most stressful stage of their medical career. Normal stress may increase to the point where it becomes abnormal stress, which is thought to achieve a critical level at some point. This abnormal stress level can then lead to burnout; burnout can lead to impairment. Both professional and personal stresses make huge demands on the resident's time. Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day, and as a resident physician that da...
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Cases Of Active Euthanasia
1,260 wordsEuthanasia Euthanasia, also known as mercy killing, is enveloped as deeply in medical and ethical controversy as abortion. Both issues involve the termination of a life, and both conjure strong arguments for advocacy and opposition. Pro-euthanasia arguments emphasize the right of patients to choose their own death, the duty of the physician to end pain and suffering, and the ability of legalization to establish guidelines which create lucidity on when and how euthanasia should be performed. Anti...
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Client's Advance Directive
2,111 wordsCONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 4 II. Will Your Advance Directive be Honored 4 . What are Advanced Directives 5 IV. Advanced Directives Fall Short 5 V. Who Decides 7 VI. Why are Advanced Directives not Followed 8 VII Conclusion 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 10 Introduction This paper presents an in-depth discussion about the issues involved in honoring a patient's advance directive. Ethical considerations surrounding the issue as they relate to the nursing profession are addressed. The purpose of the paper is to expr...
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Patients Blood Pressure And Pulse
2,121 wordsA Medical Experience It was the end of a normal day at the station. The medics are just getting to bed after running a half a dozen calls for an assorted minor medical and trauma problems. The paperwork was finished. The reports were entered intothe computer. The truck was even restocked. They were just about into dreamland but, as with most nights at this particular station, sleep was not to be. Several miles away, in a small, well kept apartment, Angie Briggs, a eighty-year-old woman awoke to ...
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Duties Of A Medical Assistant
639 wordsMy Dream Career Selecting a career is the most important decision in a person's life. The Health care industry has a good future in the United States of America. According to the American Department of Labor, the Medical assistant is one of the fastest growing health care professions. I have always been inclined towards health care and therefore I decided to be a medical assistant. To become a medical assistant one should possess different qualities. But the most important quality is to be a ver...
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Pharmacist's Conscience Clause
2,151 wordsIt should come as no surprise to anyone that we have countless ethical and moral dilemmas everyday on this planet. With over six billion people, each with their own upbringing, there are bound to be conflicts between people. So many people having so many different religions; so many others doing as they feel is right, whether that be considered socially right or wrong. Conflicts might as well be expected in this world of ours. America, the great melting pot of the world, is merely a smaller mode...
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Patients Core Temperature
1,028 wordsCryonics If you " ve ever seen the Austin Powers movie I'm sure you remember the part where they cryogenically freeze Austin and then thirty years later thaw him out to save the world. While we all know Austin Powers isn't real, I'm sure you wondered if this freezing could be done in real life. Today we will look at what exactly cryonics is, what businesses claim to provide it, the procedure and its risks. Cryonics is the freezing of humans to preserve them for a later time. Yes, it is a possibi...
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Patient Thought For A Few Minutes
788 wordsIn my career as a nurse, I have spent a great deal of time with the terminally ill. When you know that you have a debilitating disease and your prognosis is poor, you ponder the thought of death. Do I want to suffer? Do I want to have my family drained emotionally and financially? Is this going to be painful? How can I be dependent on someone else to maintain by bodily functions? When faced with these questions, we become frightened. What if our disease causes us to lose all quality of life? Sho...
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Important Ethical Question
772 wordsBut the case of the Siamese twins goes well beyond theological hair-splitting; whether their parents are Catholic or atheists, Buddhists or C of E, the twins put us all on the spot. Because, in law, their fate depends on the state and not the family; we are to judge who is to live and who is to die - or whether both should be condemned to a union that spells death. It is because their dilemma is ours to solve that Mary and Jodie raise the alarm - and threaten moral panic. Far from reassuring us ...
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False 1 Do Psychiatrist's In Canada
1,315 wordsPsychiatry Imagine being able to know what makes people tick! Imagine being able to understand why people act the way they do. Imagine being in University thirteen years MORE after High School. Definition of a psychiatry - The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders. Definition of a psychiatrist - A physician who specializes in psychiatry. Becoming a psychiatrist is no easy task that's for sure, but once completed it gives gre...
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Need For Prescription Medications
614 wordsThe rapid growth in spending on prescription drugs has pushed up health insurance premiums for individuals and families, has contributed to increases in the cost of health benefits provided by employers, and has driven up the cost of Medicaid, the joint federal and state program for people on low incomes. Proper healthcare is not available to a person with a low-income level. According to a 1998 survey by the Wall Street Journal, 80 percent of retirees use a prescription drug every day, and the ...
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1 Ratio Of Nurse Patient
999 wordsWhen she came to UK to work, she was on a rollercoaster of emotions -- scared, excited, confident, insecure, homesick... Scared of what she will be encountering-culture shock, different nursing style, language barrier (multiple accents), state-of-the-art equipment (touch screen monitors, arterial lines, swan ganz catheters, intra-aortic balloon pumps, echo- a lung bypass machine, nitric oxide, continuous ve no-venous hemofiltration-a dialysis machine, cpap machine-continuous positive airway pres...
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Patient On A Few Different Medications
4,051 wordsAs I began to think about what I wanted to write my paper about, I thought of all the topics in education that I would like to know more about. I finally choose ADD / ADHD and the use of Ritalin as my subject matter. Not being a parent or an experienced educator as of yet, I see America's propensity to over medicate reaching our youngest population. I think the statement by Dr. Breggin is quite profound, "When we drug millions of children to make them more compliant and easier to manage at home ...
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Medical History
329 wordsLargo Medical Center Time and date of arrival: April 5th, 2000 @ 10: 24 am Place of arrival: ER Name: Tyrone Williams Age: 66 Gender: Male Race: African American Symptoms and complaints reported: Abrupt loss of vision and difficulty speaking. Reported sudden loss of strength and coordination (mostly in left side) accompanied by loss of balance. Medical History: Has history of high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Sedentary lifestyle. Heavy smoker. Absence of all other major illnesses noted. ...
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Career In Urban Medicine
924 wordsEmergency 911 - The Two Faces of Urban Medicine "Call 911!" I shouted to my friend as I sprinted down the street. The young Caucasian male had been thrown fifteen yards from the site of impact and surprisingly was still conscious upon my arrival. "My name is Michael. Can you tell me your name?" In his late twenties, he gasped in response as his eyes searched desperately in every direction for help, for comfort, for assurance, for loved ones, for death, until his eyes met mine. "Flail chest", I t...
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Study Of Medicine
597 wordsTo become a physician is my life's aspiration. Taking responsibility for people's health and well-being requires first a medical student who is serious about learning, and I am just that. I have good study habits and time management skills, as well as a strong academic background in science. A career in the medical field will give me the unique opportunity to utilize my current and future abilities while benefiting human life and society. One of my most rewarding experiences has been volunteerin...
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Pain Medication
2,210 wordsCase Back Pain Page 1 Case Scenario: EM is a 74 year old woman admitted into the hospital with a complaint of back pain. She states that she is unable to sit for extended periods of time. During her bouts of pain, her blood pressure rises substantially. She is a telemetry patient on the floor and is on bed rest. The patient has a history of Crohn's Disease and in 1997 underwent a sigmoid colon resection. She also has a history of diverticulitis and COPD. Her final diagnosis consists of back pain...
