Essays Tagged: "Diagnosis"

Why Are The Chicago Bulls So Good?

entral Arkansas State and just recently acquired Dennis Rodman from the San Antonio Spurs. After my diagnosis, I concluded that the Bulls have the three key elements to win the championship in 1996. T ...

(2 pages) 38 1 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

A simple essay on multiple sclerosis.

ymptoms can be mild appearing as another ailment and, therefore, years may elapse between onset and diagnosis. Flares can be bizarre and difficult for the patient to describe. Flares can be transient ... or last for hours, even weeks. They can easily come and go showing no particular pattern or trigger.Diagnosis requires evidence of two or more neurologic attacks. With treatment, about 70% of patients ...

(2 pages) 76 2 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Medical Malpractice

essential elements: 1) Duty. Every health care provider assumes a duty when starting consultations, diagnosis, or treatment of a patient. The duty arises from an expressed or implied contract. 2) Brea ... arises from an expressed or implied contract. 2) Breach. For example, if you fail to make a correct diagnosis once you have assumed the duty to do so, you have created a 'breach of duty', due and owin ...

(7 pages) 286 2 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The Fabry Disease

A good essay about the classification,description,diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the fabry diesease. Very good essay,neatly done, well organiz ... ostly fond in males because they display full-blown syndrome, while females displays a partial form.DiagnosisThey firsts take a urine sample, which is the first place where they would find anything. T ... d find anything. Then they would take a blood, bone marrow and ophthalmologic examination. Prenatal diagnosis by way of Amniocentesis or Chronic Villus Sampling is also available.PrognosisPeople affec ...

(1 pages) 38 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Simple essay on Multiple Sclerosis

ymptoms can be mild appearing as another ailment and, therefore, years may elapse between onset and diagnosis. Flares can be bizarre and difficult for the patient to describe. Flares can be transient ... or last for hours, even weeks. They can easily come and go showing no particular pattern or trigger.Diagnosis requires evidence of two or more neurologic attacks. With treatment, about 70% of patients ...

(2 pages) 75 0 4.5 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Discuss Bernard Lewis's prognosis concerning the future of the Arab countries

e with clear solutions to their problems. In this case, Lewis decides that there are "two competing diagnosis' of the ills of the region on offer, each with its own prescription for a cure." He believ ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.1 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's disease)

eople in the U.S. today. One in 50,000 people will be affected in any one year. The average age for diagnosis of ALS is between 30 and 70, although there have been cases of teenagers contracting it.Th ... n 30 and 70, although there have been cases of teenagers contracting it.The average life span after diagnosis are three to 10 years, although 20 percent of those affected will outlive their prognosis ...

(2 pages) 56 0 2.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

A basic overveiw of what Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)is and its effects.

and/ or impulsivity. The disorder can span across social, academic or occupational functioning. The diagnosis and treatment for adults and children must be comprehensive, so Doctor's can determine oth ...

(3 pages) 311 1 3.7 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Parkinson's Disease...Everything you will ever need to know about Parkinson's Disease.

Parkinson's disease are under age 50, and about half of those are diagnosed before age 40. When the diagnosis is made early, it is referred to as "young-onset" Parkinson's disease.Early symptoms of Pa ...

(3 pages) 138 1 2.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Three situations in a social care setting

mental health ward of an NHS hospital.An elderly patient is in hospital in a public ward, she has a diagnosis of dementia, which causes her to suffer from periods of paranoid delusions. She is in hosp ...

(2 pages) 109 0 3.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Lance Armstrong: The long road back, is an essay about role models among athletes todday.

ey told him he had cancer.Next to the challenge he now faced, bike racing seemed insignificant. The diagnosis was testicular cancer, the most common cancer in men aged 15-35. If detected early, its cu ...

(2 pages) 54 0 3.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

"The Effects of Treatment Compliance on Outcome in Congnitive-Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder: Quality Versus Quantity"

nd treatment of anxiety disorders and met the study criteria. The criteria was (a) principal Axis I diagnosis of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia; (b) no change in medication type or dose du ...

(1 pages) 132 1 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Smith-Magenis Syndrome - It is full of info such as Characteristics, Geneitics, The Diagnosis, Early Detection, an Diagnossis and Intervention.

17th pair of Chromosomes. To educate you on SMS I will tell you the Characteristics, Genetics, The Diagnosis, and about Early Detection, Diagnosis, and Intervention.Someone with SMS will have a varia ... lack of this specific section, known as 17p11.2 that causes a child to develop features of SMS. The Diagnosis of SMS is usually confirmed through blood tests called Chromosome analysis and FISH (Fluor ...

(3 pages) 81 0 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

This is an extra credit opinion paper for my group counseling class on labeling

nsurance companies need a daignosis to appropriate funds for treatment, but this labeling causes misdiagnosises in numerus cases. But in my opinion this label can be even more destructive then the dis ... me could benefit from counseling, without the risk of being labeled mentally ill, or in need of any diagnosis at all. I believe that by alloting a amount of money to maintain proper mental health ever ...

(1 pages) 111 2 3.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

A project on night blindness, how it is caused, treatment of night blindness, symptoms, and preventing night blindness

Introduction:Night blindness also known as Nyctalopia is not a diagnosis, but rather a symptom of an underlying disorder. People with night blindness (also called ...

(3 pages) 46 1 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Diagnoisis of Attention Deficit Disorder and if Ritalin should be taken.

Over the past several years there has been much discussion dealing with the over diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The big controve ...

(5 pages) 91 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

, superstitious beliefs are usually common in everyday life, but when they come so excessive then a diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is made. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a medical brain ... Obsessive Compulsive Disorder seek treatment for nine years before they actually receive a correct diagnosis.Obsessive Compulsive Disorder often tends to be under diagnosed or untreated for a number ...

(8 pages) 163 0 2.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Psychopaths.

he disorder, with respect to the DSM manuals.There are various characteristics that can lead to the diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Dr. Robert Hare, a well respected Canadian researcher ...

(3 pages) 74 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

If Foucault is correct about the multiple sites of resistance, what does this tell us about Hardt and Negri's political diagnosis in Empire?

that we might, as clearly as possible, understand the lens through which we must view the political diagnosis proposed by Hardt and Negri in Empire; and also what the political diagnosis of Hardt and ... see through this particular Foucauldian lens, evaluating what we see of Hardt and Negri's political diagnosis, that is, Empire, and how they propose that it be resisted and countered against the backd ...

(14 pages) 57 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

I need help with this essay, read the end to understand

to the duty to warn. The attending presumably agrees that the patient has a right to know about her diagnosis, but also believes that because (a) the patient probably already knows of the diagnosis, a ... hholding that information could delay potentially beneficial treatment until someone else makes the diagnosis. This is essentially contradictory to the ethical principal of non-maleficence (do no harm ...

(6 pages) 137 1 2.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy