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Holistic Care: Are we treating the Patient or the condition?
... patients and their families to cope with: (a) disease chronicity, (b) waiting period, (c) role reversal, (d) hospitalization, and (e ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Advise as to what actions the patient and the family have against the manufacturer, the Hospital, or the doctor. Was the nurse also negligent? Could she bring an action against the hospital?
... the doctor's instruction, is expected to take care of patients in distress diligently. Had Jacqueline not panicked and negligently topples ... likelihood that the risk materializes? If the risk is remote (e.g. around 1% as in Sidaway v Bethlem Royal Hospital ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Ethics
... patients, families, and others (e.g., hospitals, other patients ... patients' decision-making processes are influenced by their culture and faith traditions and away from a singular focus on clinical "certainties." Caregivers, patients, families, and others (e ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Aids Epidemic.
... (Mainous & Matheny 1996). Rural HIV/AIDS patients also are less likely than urban patients to have public or private health insurance ... 1997. March). AIDS Program Office. HRSA Fact Sheet, Kelly, J.E. (1996). Fiscal status update of state AIDS drug assistance ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Is privacy a right?
... becomes more accessible through electonic sources, medical records of patients will be made available to many people. While the ... them, further information is collected about him in th e database. His credit file, work history, health reports, bank ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
The Legalization of Marijuana
... It is up to the doctor whether or not the patient needs it. The D.E.A. also has fears about the possible addiction to ... has been effective in treating sick patients with their discomforts. The many arguments of the government and the D.E.A. have yet to be ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Economic Ramifications of Stringent Tort Laws
... than what the patients expected. Empirically it is observed that patients are averse to insurances because the patients are paying a ... ?Eliminating the contingency fee when there is no contingency (i.e., when liability is not disputed and damages, at least ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Medical Malpractice
... practiced medicine as a duty to their patients. Laws were developed to protect patients, therefore doctors used proper care and ... , Ont.: The Carswell Company Limited, 1984. n Brooten, Kenneth E. Jr. Malpractice: A Guide to Avoidance and Treatment. Orlando, ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Rule of Law and what are its benefits and defects.
... honesty within the patient. Say the doctor conspired with the patient's enemy regarding what the patient's illness was, ... ' as some have indeterminate language, general & unclear standards (e.g. "fairness" "reasonable") and no clear governing selection ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Torts law Essay - Answering the questions are remedies available to people infected with AIDS in Australia.
... with the defendant doctor's misdiagnosis of HIV in a patient, and that patient's partner's subsequent contracting of HIV. In that case, ... cause of [Holly's injury]" (see the case of March v E & MH Stramare Pty Ltd & Anor .) (If the court were to hold ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law