Essays Tagged: "Medical practice"
American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) foundation is an organization founded in 1847 to help advance health care ... pport of education, research, and service programs at home and abroad. The foundation helps advance medical education though grants, scholarships, and all other types of funds and donations provided b ... er types of funds and donations provided by supporters all over. It is though these funds that help medical students, educators and retired physicians advance well into the future. Besides founding gr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Acupuncture
AcupunctureAcupuncture is a Chinese medical practice that treats illnessand provides local anesthesia by the insertion of needles atpred ... esacupuncture is used in the United States.Acupuncture is used in the treatment of a wide variety ofmedical problems. It is used for ear, nose, and throat disorders,respiratory disorders, Gastrointest ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Acupuncture: Finding a Home in America.
s now proving that acupuncture, for years a myth explained only by Chinese culture, is an effective medical practice in the United States. This idea, along with newly found and scientifically-proven b ... States, resulting in dozens of American doctors traveling to China to learn of this ancient art of medical treatment (Abrams 102).As American doctors visited China to witness surgery being done on co ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Dracula, Appropriate Halloween Icon? Examines the theme of sexuality in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and what it implies about Stoker's view of sexuality.
of sexuality at the time period of the authoring, and finds its way into the act of drinking blood, medical practice, even images of death.Initially, it is interesting to notice that throughout the no ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Is Penicillin as Important Today as When It Was First Discovered?
igh esteem now, penicillin continues to save millions of lives.IntroductionBefore the 21st century, medical practice was unlike what is known today. In the early 1800's, anesthetics were unheard of. E ... ry. Yet, many still did not accept the link between disease and unseen organisms. In 1890, a French medical student, Ernest Dushesne, stumbled across a mold capable of destroying bacteria. However, hi ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Crawfordlong
use ether anesthetics in surgery. He was born in Danielsville, Georgia on Nov. 1, 1815. He got his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. Long is now known to be the first to use ... ow known to be the first to use an ether-based anesthesia. He returned to his home state to start a medical practice in Jefferson, Georgia. After observing the same effects with ether that where alrea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Euthanasia: is it just?
ures to prolong life be stopped. South Australia passed the Natural Death Act in 1983, Victoria the Medical Treatment Act in 1988, the Northern Territory the Natural Death Act in 1988 and the Australi ... 1988, the Northern Territory the Natural Death Act in 1988 and the Australian Capital Territory the Medical Treatment Act in 1994. NSW issued "interim guidelines" in 1993.To the extent that these legi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Ethics of Euthanasia
Bioethics is the study of moral issues in the fields of medical treatment and research. The idea of bioethics is based upon several different codes of ethic ... asis for the first official code of ethics that was written in 1846 by the founders of the American Medical Association. Another code was developed after World War II. This code was called the Nurembe ... s established in response to the abuses in human experimentation by Nazi Germany. In the 1950s, new medical technologies developed that could keep someone alive longer, even if their heart did not wor ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
This is a Biography of William Carlos Williams. It talks about how his life affected his poetry
on of poem, The Tempest.After college, Williams returned to his hometown, Rutherford, and setup his medical practice. In his spare time, Williams would write many things including: poems, novels, play ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Living in the Shadow of Death Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
ase hostD. No protection form diseaseE. Disease prevention mythsF. A deadly medical practice III. The Pursuit of HealthA. When one contracts consumption a whole ... apid progress to deathE. Neurological effectsF. Chronic BronchitisG. Boston Medical JournalVIII. Intensive CareA. During dyingB. Fear and panicC. Coughi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Euthanasia Q:Discuss an important issue of your choice
boos, misunderstanding and the legal position in our society, people who have good reason to seek a medically assisted or induced death are unable to obtain it. They may have to endure periods of into ... change this position. They seek the legal right to a hastened death as an option of last resort in medical practice for those suffering with no hope of relief except in death. Western culture is esse ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Euthanasia
boos, misunderstanding and the legal position in our society, people who have good reason to seek a medically assisted or induced death are unable to obtain it. They may have to endure periods of into ... change this position. They seek the legal right to a hastened death as an option of last resort in medical practice for those suffering with no hope of relief except in death. Western culture is esse ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Important Canadian contribution to the improvement of healthcare.
t of various illnesses, and the way health care is delivered. To each patient, timely and effective medical care can be a case of life and death. Thanks to modern medicine in the form of new treatment ... at we as Canadians are healthier than we were in the past. This is not to say, that we have all the medical answers, such as cure for diabetes, cancer, or AIDS. However, it does mean we as a nation ar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Privacy Policy
intrusion and it is a place of seclusion (Merriam-Webster).We have analyzed three small companies: Medical Center for Bone and Joint Disorders, Premier Physical Therapy and James E. Carlson Physical ... Therapy and James E. Carlson Physical Therapy.The Medical Center for Bone and Joint Disorders is a medical practice of approximately 35 employees. The employee handbook had one privacy policy, which ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Should euthanasia be legalized
the arguments supporting or protesting the practice have raised serious concern and problems in the medical field for years, as well as society and the world as a whole. Nowadays euthanasia isn’t ... ply ending artificial life support in order to prolong life. By some people it is considered a good medical practice, and is usually performed on terminally ill patients. Active or voluntary euthanasi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
Most important discoveries; Herophilus' impact on medicine and science
curacy and offerings to the field gave way-at least indirectly-to improvements in surgery, hygiene, medical practice, physiology and kinesiology, scientific investigation and many more, as well as-dir ... he very unbalanced notion of using drugs as a sole cure-all in conventional medicine. "Alternative" medical practice, however, became even more deeply rooted in the original beliefs; even the drugs of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Resident physician stress and
Resident 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 t ... all fall upon the resident. The resident is still supervised by the attending physician. As during medical school, residents must learn to manage enormous amounts of information, new research, treatm ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Paradigm Shifts in Cancer Treatment and Research
udy there are numerous ways to go about solving a problem. This is especially true for the field of medical practice. Medical practice is just that; it's practice. Every day is another opportunity for ... re important than another in the fight against cancer because anything is possible when it comes to medical practice. Each field of study is ultimately trying to reach the same goal and by doing it in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Euthanasia: A Consideration of Legal Practice
rld. Most of these rights serve to better the quality of human life. The controversial issue of the medical practice euthanasia, or physician-assisted suicide, is not only a matter of rights, but a ma ... pared to today, making death more common as a part of life, and not something people can avoid. New medical advances in society almost give the impression that death is avoidable. However, death is un ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
Decriminalizing Drugs and Prostitution
morphine, heroin, and cocaine, to medicinal purposes. The law was designed to prevent casual or non-medical users from obtaining the drugs outside of medical practice. Prohibition was the result of no ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics