The social problem relating to our country's current health care system is an issue all of society can empathize with. ... Depersonalization of patients, high costs of procedures, little opportunity for affordable health care, insurance plans that cost more than what they provide, defensive medicine practices are all issues with our current health care system. I find this issue important to recognize because our country is supposed to have the world's greatest health care system and we certainly spend enough on the system to have this, yet on a national level, our country ranks the l...

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Therapeutic communication is a practice that allows effective rapport-building between the medical personal, regardless of current role, and the patient. ... In the end, it allows our perspective to focus on the big picture rather than just the current situation. ... The simple contact can help a patient deal with emotional and physical loss, and can encourage clients to express grief about their current situation. ... Sometimes in nursing a patient or staff member may make an ambiguous comment that needs to be brought better into focus. ... " brings clearer focus to the patients situa...

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Thus, creating the current institutional health care system. ... This exodus from the current system is causing affordability to be even further out of reach for the average healthcare consumer. ... Over and above, this foreign view strikes a chord locally, by stressing the focus on the patient rather than on profit and procedure. ... The current institutional healthcare system is hurtful and failing in many aspects. ... If advancement is to be obtained from it's current state the courage to admit our current healthcare failures must be realized. ...

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Despite the states" desires to have marijuana legalized for medicinal purposes, the US National Institutes of Health examined all existing clinical evidence about smoked marijuana and concluded that, "There is no scientifically sound evidence that smoked marijuana is medically superior to currently available therapies." ... Therefore, the best way to address this issue at the time is to conduct more thorough and involved research focused mainly on the important medical uses of marijuana. ... Studies should also be conducted through governmental funding on those people in California and Arizona...

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Sales and production facilities also expanded throughout the world In March 2014, Baxter announced plans to create two separate, independent global healthcare companies-one focused on developing and marketing bio-pharmaceuticals and the other on medical products. ... Analysis of Cash Position According to cash flows of these companies it was analyzed that Abbott has shown an increment in the cash inflow every year, it focuses on its operating activities and managed in a way which make them to have a better cash position as compared to baxter and Sanofi. ... If we take a look to its current ra...

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The NCCIH is currently doing funded research on cancer patients, and they state "Cancer patients who receive integrative therapies while in the hospital have less pain and anxiety" (NIH). ... "Integrated medicine highlights focus on the patient as the center of our concern of health" (IOM). ... I envision a health care system that focuses on patient-centered care which is personalized and preventive. ...

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The government has been focusing on fixing this problem by proposing the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obama Care. ... Currently 15% of Americans are uninsured in regards to healthcare. ... Insurance companies are currently allowed to deny coverage and limit benefits to people because of pre-existing health conditions. ... Currently, this is a big problem for those who can get denied coverage based on health conditions they have previously had. ...

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Treatment of current diseases or ailments can be tailored to an individual's genome. ... Gene sequences can be obtained and used to develop pre-clinical treatments or improve current treatment methods. ... A current issue plaguing a number of people and families is the availability of healthcare. ... Focusing on the field of genetics and medicine, much that has been discovered has been correlated by the past. ... Lastly, the current state of genetic research and the progressive advancements that have been made could potentially eradicate the lack of healthcare worldwide....

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The homeless population is one that is extremely vulnerable and marginalized; it is one that has seen considerable growth in Canada recently "with many people currently at risk of becoming homeless. ... The argument stands that the current health care system in place does not effectively address the health care needs of the homeless population (Currie, Greaves, Golden, & Latimer, 1999, p. 103). ... These clinics have much of the same characteristics as any family physicians office, in which the focus of care is on immediate care for acute illness, screening, and health education. ... The ...

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While Shinto focuses on nature, Buddhism emphasizes ethical and moral principles. ... Confucianism focused on moderation, loyalty, and reciprocity. ... For example, although modern diagnostic testing is available in Japan, their main focus regarding prenatal care is on diet, nutrition, and weight gain. ... Shiatsu massage and acupuncture are additional methods that are both traditionally and currently used in Japanese health care. ... Relief for patients suffering from depression and anxiety can be accomplished by using a mediation technique that focuses on controlled breathing and lowering...

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While Shinto focuses on nature, Buddhism emphasizes ethical and moral principles. ... Confucianism focused on moderation, loyalty, and reciprocity. ... For example, although modern diagnostic testing is available in Japan, their main focus regarding prenatal care is on diet, nutrition, and weight gain. ... Shiatsu massage and acupuncture are additional methods that are both traditionally and currently used in Japanese health care. ... Relief for patients suffering from depression and anxiety can be accomplished by using a meditation technique that focuses on controlled breathing and lowering...

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Sistema Unico de Saude (SUS) is the Brazilian healthcare system and it focuses on universal access, decentralization, and social participation. ... Brazil's health care system is currently facing an issue with the double burden of disease because Brazil is a developing country. ... Currently, the Brazilian National AIDS Program is the leading example of integrated HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment program in a developing country. ... This program model could be applied to other programs with the intention of improving, or proposing changes to current program. ...

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"v The results of this survey strongly agree with those of Report of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care which concluded that "most Canadians believe that health care should be a socially insured service in the spirit of the current Canada Health Act.... Medicine in this capacity is deemed a social function and service, with doctors being more concerned over the well-being of a patient, rather than obsessing over their function as wage earner.x Following this argument, it may therefore seem morally justifiable for a physician to prefer to work in a public system which s...

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Overall, though healthcare should be a right to all Americans, it is treated more like a luxury only available for those who can afford it, creating an industry that cannot continue on its current path. ... With the focus on creating a 'public option' which would mitigate the cost of healthcare for the roughly 46 million who are reported to be uninsured today, Obama is working against a grain of industry lobbies and Republican Party leaders. ... The discussion here provides a basis for the overhaul and the public option through a consideration of the current failures which have damag...

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Lappe believes that new adaptive policies that actually understand how microbes will react to the changes they create will be more effective in slowing the evolution of many microbes which will give our treatments a higher success rate and put a stop to the current influx of antibiotic resistant microbes. ... Lappe puts forth the suggestion that the real cause of our current plight is rooted in a historical blindness to the natural forces that have shaped disease organisms, and a continued ignorance of the interplay between our massive destruction of the natural order and our own well be...

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This journal looked at the estimated current annual cost for obesity and its related disease in United States, range from $147 billion to nearly $210 billion, along with annually $43 billion indirect costs, which means, "resources forgone as a result of a health condition." ... Currently, excess weight along its linked diseases including diabetes, hypertension and cancer deaths has risen considerably: 25.8 Americans has been diagnosed with diabetes while this number was only 7.8 million twenty years ago, 75% high blood pressure associated with obesity and approximately one-third of cancer...

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In the current paper, I focus on the legalization process of free child care to parents with two children in Queens, New York. ... In conjunction with the local representative, the bill was introduced in the house and together with his colleagues discussed the need of free child care for parents with two children by focusing specific policy strategies including strengthening the bargaining power of the parents in workplaces, expanding the earned income tax credit for the parents, and increasing the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. ...

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The aims in this discussion are to look at Patient Safety First (2011) quote stating that, 'with NHS change, focus is to be maintained on delivery of safer, better care to the patient.' ... For the purpose of this assignment I will ensure focus is channelled toward the scenario and will therefore examine the hazards/potential hazards of electrosurgical smoke plume on the patient and intraoperative team. Perioperative personnel and patients are routinely exposed to this smoke, and there is currently no legislation making use of smoke evacuation devices mandatory (Ball, 2010). Reviewi...

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Definition Currently there is no universally accepted definition of telemedicine. ... Thede (2002) describes telehealth as "the use of electronic communication networks to transmit data or information that focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, consultation, education, and/or therapy." ... Current Status of Telemedicine Currently every state in this country has at least one telemedicine program. ... For the most part, consultations via the Internet or video conferencing are the major ways that health care services are currently provided via telemedicine (Ashley, 200...

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The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HERD) is active in ongoing research that is focused solely on the social and economic factors associated with the HIV/AIDS problem. It is a global organization that is more focused on international health, but it also works to educate people globally about HIV/AIDS and it develops programs that will aid the global community. ... Policy makers need to fully understand the costs and benefits, the current social impact, and the future social impacts if no changes are made vs if changes are made, in order to more fully serve those in need and ...

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The purpose of this project is to examine current imaging technology and practice to determine if doses can effectively be reduced and still maintain diagnostic image quality. The hypothesis is that current digital media will be able to account for variances that might degrade image quality and still yield a diagnostic study. ... This focus becomes ever more important as the populations increase in number and age. ... Research Question Is there a correlation between dose reduction techniques and image quality with current digital technology? ...

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Northern California co-counsel Ann Brick said, "This case focuses directly on basic First Amendment principles, thus the case is not about whether the government should legalize the medical use of marijuana. ... This test has never been duplicated, and there is currently no evidence available which shows such results. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the efficacy and timeliness of prophylactic antibiotics within one hour prior to surgical incision in the Surgical Services Department that this writer practices nursing, and to determine if there is enough evidence in the research the writer has reviewed to improve or change the current practice. ... Another article focused on purposive sampling. ... The hospital in which the writer works, is currently involved in implementation a new computer system, so it would not be feasible to execute that part of the process. ...

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As the project, now called E5, continues, Vanderbilt is working to set up an outpatient electronic order system, an electronic dictation and transcription system, and to focus attention to inpatient areas. ... Most physicians are currently using telephones for their dictation, but the goal will be for a system that will insert dictation notes directly into the patient's chart electronically. ...

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These particular codes are used by Medicaid and are monitored by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services are are based on the Current Procedural Technology codes (CPT) coding system. ... A lot of work is put into the medical coding system in order for it to work properly and we must possess the ability to focus, organize, and obtain detail. ...

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