Medical tourism challenges
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Traveling around the globe to seek cancer treatment has been steadily growing over the years. Medical tourism is mainly influenced by several factors that include: cheaper cancer treatments, advanced medical facilities, better qualified medical personnel and better healthcare services. The...
The ICU provider
Case study - 8 pages - Biology
Wallace-Barnhill (cited Shoemaker, 1992) makes observations on the situation of medical aspects considering emotional, professional and historical characters involved, especially with regard to death and how it comes to be seen after the appearance of UTIs. Thus, said it reached a point where...
The Team: pathological phenomena on health professionals
Case study - 7 pages - Biology
During this work, thought to question the focus of treatment that has been given to the patient. That is, sometimes the patient was taken care of by a team whose only concern was his physical body, and at other times, there was the search for a more comprehensive performance, also...
Novel pressure-relief wheelchair: research paper
Tutorials/exercises - 30 pages - Biology
Pressure sores are painful and debilitating tissue wounds which commonly affect wheelchair users. Current treatment of pressure sores requires bed-rest for up to sixteen weeks, which is unacceptable for patients with active life-styles. The purpose of our project is to design a wheelchair...
Key Facts about Chronic Illness: Stigma and Coping
Essay - 6 pages - Social sciences
Studies show that there are various illnesses which have been discovered of late and majority of these can be healed through the use of drugs and other hospital treatments. However, there are also those which remain in the body for an uncertain period of time and can only be treated to prevent...
Approaching death: A literature review on end-of-life care
Thesis - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Before the 1950's many a lot of people died at home with the family around. They often died quickly of illnesses such as influenza, measles or scarlet fever. Today, as medical technology creates more and more tools and medicines to prolong lives, human beings are faced with the difficult process...
Clinical tests in developing countries and pharmaceutical ethics issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Medical studies
The clinical trials performed on humans by the pharmaceutical companies are essentials for the advancement of the knowledge of human health. After the terrible Nazis experimentation during the Second World War, some actions have been taken to protect the participants of the clinical trials. Many...
Who deserves health care?
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
In order to do this each patient requiring expensive treatment is assessed according to a quality adjusted life years (QALY) score¹. This is an equation that measures all of the aforementioned criteria and is used to assess the cost versus benefit of a particular treatment. If a...
Measurement of pain
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
The pain often makes the patient unfit physically and emotionally by both cluttering and subvert the behavior of the sore subject. The pain prevents you from thinking coherently and induces the patient to seek treatment or relief.According to a reliable model, the pain consists of...
Psychological aspects and related psychopathology to HIV infection
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
The recent introduction of therapy with protease inhibitors among persons infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) has greatly improved the prognosis of the disease patterns consequent to infection. In particular, it improved the course of the disease and several other clinical aspects,...
Artificial intelligence in Healthcare Industry - A.I in Medical Technology : Medical Imaging
Dissertation - 35 pages - Management
Nowadays, we hear about artificial intelligence all around us and more specifically in the automotive, economic, computer and health sectors. The primary goal of artificial intelligence at its inception in the 1950s was to improve and extend human capabilities with machines (Pallanca O., and Read...
Reducing multi-medication in the elderly
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The multi medication is generally defined as taking more than four concomitant medications. However, it can also be defined as the prescribing or use more drugs than those actually needed to care for a patient. The latter definition adds a qualitative dimension, that of the adequacy of the...
The mini mental state examination
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
The Mini Mental State Examination has been a common tool amongst psychologist and doctors for over 25 years. Marshall F. Folstein, Susan E. Folstein, and Paul R. McHugh developed the test in 1975 (Albanese). Since then doctors and researchers alike have tested its accuracy and usefulness. It has...
A reflection on one student's preparation to transition from student nurse to graduate nurse
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This author's personal philosophy of nursing draws from a variety of sources to form a comprehensive whole. Feminist ethics, and the ethics of care which derives from it, encourages health care professionals to look at clients as whole people, who fit into a social framework, and who have...
Aravind eye care system
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Aravind eye care system was started in 1976 in India by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and the main idea was to get rid of blindness which had become very rampant in India. At the start of the eye care center, the clinic has only 11 beds and by the end of the first year, the clinic had gotten 23...
Hospital rankings online in the US: What methodologies?
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
In France, we know the rankings are published regularly by the weekly Le Point (rankings of hospitals, clinics, maternity clinics). To date, the online rankings are virtually nonexistent in France. In the U.S. however, in a context where health is more in tune with market forces and consumerism...
An analysis of the effect of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction: psychological recovery of an athlete student.
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Involvement in sporting activities requires high level of individual commitments. Sport is therefore, also regarded as a culture of risk (Roderick, 1998). A lot of time and effort is dedicated to practicing and perfection of abilities. When performances are good, athletes are able to define...
How research protocol would impact the medical providers' practice?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Research puts it clear that healthcare research aids a patient and a client care through the provision of a unique scientifically based body of intensive knowledge used to make various decisions, practice and promote the professional role. The modern research protocols can be used by the...
Pharmacological effects and safe administration of Coumadin (warfarin)
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
“Coumadin is a registered trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma Company,” (Bristol- Meyers Squibb Company, 2008) and is a trade name for the generic medication warfarin sodium,commonly known as warfarin. This paper explores the use of Coumadin (warfarin) in clinical practice,...
Health concepts
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
When going to the doctor's office or hospital many things are going through an individual's head. The individual is most likely experiencing some very high anxiety at this point, not knowing what to expect. The anxiety can come from the pain and suffering, financial concerns, or numerous other...
Counseling Psychology: Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Counseling psychology is a career whose specialty involves helping people gain control of their feelings. It is a class of applied psychology that uses research and applied work to give treatment to clients who experience variety of emotional, social and behavioral problems. Among other...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic way of addressing maladaptive actions, cognitive contents and processes and dysfunctional emotions through several goal-oriented, precise methodical techniques. Study shows that CBT is an efficient treatment for other panic attacks, but there is...
Legal aspects of the law and legislations
Case study - 5 pages - Civil law
The purpose of this essay is to analyse a case scenario at the Sunnyland Day Respite Center with focus being on the legal aspects of the law and legislations. The paper will analyse the various aspects of the law in relation to the case that resulted in the unnecessary death of the...
An Investigation in to the Effects of Poor Handwriting of Physicians
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Introduction Shapiro (2004) notes that approximately 195,000 patients die each year as a result of medical errors. While scholars and researchers are working to address the myriad of causes that contribute to patient mortality in the healthcare setting, there is ample evidence to...
Conquering chronic illness: Treating the person as well as the disease
Essay - 6 pages - Medical studies
A chronic illness is an affliction in which many areas of life are affected. “In the United States, nearly one third of the population experiences severe chronic pain at some point in life. It is currently the most common cause of long-term disability, partially or totally disabling upwards...
As a result of the practice of organ transplantation, do we ultimately require a re-thinking of the meaning of death?
Essay - 7 pages - Medical studies
Ever since its inception in the 1950s, organ transplantation has been accompanied by questions about the ethics of taking organs from the dead and living and giving them to others. Discussions abound among physicians, ethicists, policy makers, and the public. At first living and willing relatives...
Social work: Board presentation
Presentation - 28 pages - Social sciences
The illness impacts ability to seek/obtain care, nutrition, transportation, maintain housing, etc. Individual medical crisis impacts multiple systems: family, friends, neighbors, employer/ co-workers, schools, taxpayers, social services, national economy, etc. Care givers often need Social Work...
An assessment of a nurse's work with an elderly person within the mental health environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This account will reflect on the skills of a nurse, observed at an older person functional mental health unit. It will focus on the organization of care, and skills used when dealing with a Multi Disciplinary Team. (MDT) It gives an understanding of the skills used to clearly establish and...
Lewin's change theory and the problem of addressing nursing shortages using technology
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Introduction - Nursing shortages are a world-wide problem that negatively impact many areas of the profession's goals, from level of job satisfaction to patient care, with an inverse proportional relationship between higher patient-nurse ratios, noted in much research. (Al-Kandari...
Reflective paper, On death and dying
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology
On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages:...
