Papers on Health and Medicine
HIV/AIDS Seminar
Words: 614 - Pages: 3.... and forty. The only solution to this problem, as is the only solution to any problem, is prevention through education. Of course it is easy to hand out literature and condoms to adults, but are they really going to listen? As a community, we can encourage HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age.
Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education should begin is .....
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Injustice Of Abortion
Words: 345 - Pages: 2.... it. On one hand, America is a peace loving country that intervenes in places like Ireland and the Middle East to end war and promote peace. On the other hand, many Americans whole heartedly support the practice of choosing to kill a baby so that the parent can avoid conflicts when the baby is born. This seems like a very contradictory and unnecessary practice.
One major problem with the is the fact that people actually support it. With almost every other major injustice in America, including domestic violence, discrimination, sexual harassment, and others, the vast majority are strongly opposed to its existence. However, the majo .....
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The Dangers Of Smoking
Words: 712 - Pages: 3.... These three are
the major causes of death for smokers. It also causes cancer of the lip and
mouth, emphysema, cancer of the larynx, oral cavity and esophagus; about
one third of all cancers of the bladder, kidney, and pancreas are
attributed to smoking as well.
Lung cancer has become the leading killer among cancers in the
United States. More than eight of every ten cases of lung cancer are caused
by smoking, and nine out of every ten victims die within five years.
Emphysema is a progressive respiratory disease characterized by
coughing, shortness of breath, and wheezing, developing into extreme
difficulty in breathing, and sometime .....
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Nursing: Lifting, Transferring And Positioning Of Patients
Words: 2053 - Pages: 8.... or positioning patients, the most important
consideration is safety. Any of these procedures need to be undertaken with it
in mind. This safety is inclusive of both the patient and the health care
worker. Communication is an important part of the lifting process as the nurse
should elicit information from the client to find out how and when they prefer
to be moved. This allows the patient to be involved in the decision making
process and be fully aware of what is occurring. By communicating with the
client, the nurse is also aware of whether or not the patient is experiencing
any discomfort during or after the lift.
The actions of .....
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How Psychology Can Help Enhance Health Care Delivery
Words: 268 - Pages: 1.... these are obedience, conformity and compliance. These qualities shall be explored in great depth revealing how the knowledge of psychology can help enhance a health care delivery.
Obedience, conformity and complience are known to depend on what is at risk, whata person loses will dtermine what he/she is going to do and to what extent the person carries given orders,(Rungapadiachy(1990 p.1).
The Focus of this discussion is to highlight on three crucial qualities that can influence a typical health care scenario; these are obedience, conformity and compliance. These qualities shall be explored in great depth revealing how the kn .....
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Homosexuality
Words: 834 - Pages: 4.... he never uses his teeth for
chewing but instead takes nourishment intravenously. This is a clear example
where Mr. Smith is misusing his teeth. In addition to misuse, Levine states
that this man will have a dim future on purely physiological grounds (Levin 355).
Since Mr. Smith isn't using his teeth for chewing, his digestive system will
suffer from disuse. The result will be Mr. Smiths deteriorating health. Levin
incorporates the evolution process into this example. He states that Mr. Smith
descended from creatures who enjoy the use of such parts. Creatures who do not
enjoy using such parts of their bodies will tend to be selected .....
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Stress
Words: 273 - Pages: 1.... have . One factor for me is being on the foul line during a basket ball game. I get nervous and my hands start sweating and I can't concentrate, then sometimes I miss the foul shot. Another example is when I am playing baseball and there is a man on first and third and the count is 2 and 3 in the 7th inning. The game is tied and the pressure is on, which causes .
People who don't handle their situations sometimes turn to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. If isn't handled, it can really impact your health. It can cause heart trouble, headaches, ulcers and even death. Students who don't handle turn to drugs or even commit suicide. ful si .....
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Euthanasia: A Question Of Ethics
Words: 1619 - Pages: 6.... mercy to a suffering patient may mean to
refrain from procedures that cause further suffering-provided, of course, that
the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The physician must
refrain from ordering painful tests, therapies, or surgical procedures when they
cannot alleviate suffering or contribute to a patient's improvement or cure.
Perhaps the most familiar contemporary medical example is the treatment of burn
victims when survival is unprecedented; if with the treatments or without them
the chances of the patient's survival is nil, mercy requires the physician not
to impose the debridement treatments , which are excruci .....
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The Dark Side Of A Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection Of Testimony On The Safety Of Ritalin
Words: 1725 - Pages: 7.... everything from increased
awareness of attention disorders in schools to teachers and parents becoming
less tolerant of unruly behavior.
Some local school offices have become virtual noon-time pharmacies. At one
Ottawa-area board of education, the number of medications dispensed to students
by office administrators has increased 20 per cent over the past 18 months. A
good chunk of those pills are Ritalin. "We always worry that we're a half-step
away from giving someone the wrong dosage," says John Beatty, the board's
superintendent of school operations(Ritalin Boy). "In certain school systems
there's been a teacher who has seen it wo .....
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The Human Heart
Words: 526 - Pages: 2.... infections. The brain cells are very dependent on a constant
supply of oxygen. If the circulation to the brain is stopped, death ensues
shortly. Since heart attacks are the number-one cause of death in the
United States, the heart gets a great deal of attention.
The heart's wall has three parts, Muscle tissue, or myocardium, is
the middle layer. The inner layer, or endocardium, that lines the inside of
the heart muscle consists of a thin layer of endothelial tissue overlying a
thin layer of vascularized connective tissue. The outside of the heart, the
epicardium, is in intimate contact with the pericardium; this serous
membrane is a .....
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