The union claimed that the employees lost a benefit when the company changed the use of compensatory time for illness. In light of the fact that the use was permitted if the employee had no sick leave available, how were the employees damaged?…
Anne Anderson initially told one of Jan’s partners her story and put many calls into their office. However, she never a response from them! So Anne put a call into Jan Schlitchmann while he was on a radio show. Jan and his partners discussed the case and Jan agreed to go and meet with Anne and the family member’s of the children who died from Leukemia. So he went to the city of Woburn Wells. Jan saw the companies W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods and thought it would be a goldmine for the law office to take on the case. Anderson told Jan that she and the other families were not looking for money in this lawsuit. The families only wanted an apology from the companies and for someone to clean up the area and make sure it would not ever happen again.…
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr is about a nonfiction civil law case that takes place in Woburn, Massachusetts. It is centered around numerous kids who were diagnosed with leukemia and no one knew why. When Anne Anderson’s child, Jimmy was diagnosed, in the summer of 1772, she wanted to figure out the cause. She finds a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, “Of the twelve cases, eight were located in east Woburn, and six of those were clustered in the Pine Street neighborhood, where perhaps two hundred families lived” (Harr 40). She thought the cause was their water source. Their water came from Wells G and H, two sources that have been shut down and examined by the health department due to the water’s foul taste, odor and different color.…
In the novel, Hope Was Here, sixteen-year old Hope Yancey and her guardian aunt, Addie, go on a journey that changes them for the better. Hope’s mother, Deena, feels that it is too difficult to take care of Hope, so she gives her to Addie, who is her older sister. Hope was named Tulip when she was born but she hated that name so she changes it on her twelfth birthday. Hope and Addie move to Mulhoney, Wisconsin to work at a diner called The Welcome Stairways. The owner, G.T. Stoop has leukemia, and the diner lacks cooks and waitresses. As they arrive, they meet the diner staff that is so important to them. G.T. is a jolly, good-hearted, and admirable man, and you can’t tell that he has leukemia by the way that he acts. Although G.T. has leukemia,…
An employee’s wife was seeking compensation due to the many deaths in her family that were caused from asbestos-related diseases. Her name was Winnifred Brennan, for many years she continuously washed her husband’s work clothes that were covered in dust fibres of asbestos. Unfortunately her husband, including five or her nine children past away from cancer. She received $374000 in compensation. This shows the amount of individuals who came forward with their asbestos cases seeking to claim compensation.…
* History of infectious mononucleosis or infection with Epstein-Barr virus, a causative agent of mono…
Schmann wants 25 mil cash…and another 25 mil to establish a research foundation to establish link between chemicals and illness…1.5 mil annually for families for 30 years…
A 64-year-old man presented to the emergency unit complaining of increasing shortness of breath for about 6 months. He reported an insidious onset of dyspnoea on exertion which has progressively worsened to dyspnoea at rest. There was associated orthopnoea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea. He reported having palpitations, poor appetite, swelling of both legs and a nocturnal cough productive of frothy sputum. He had no history of chest pain, syncope, dizziness, fever and night sweats. He was a known multiple myeloma patient in…
A Civil Action entails a major class action suit brought forth by several families against major conglomerates (including W.R. Grace chemical company and Beatrice Foods) that were alleged to have negligently damaged the environment of a small town to the extent that its practices led to the spread of leukemia. Jan, a personal injury attorney, decides to represent a woman that claims that her child and other neighbors of a small town in Massachusetts have been diagnosed with leukemia. The lawyer finds evidence that there were some factors that could have led to the contamination of the town's water supply by the conglomerates’ factory.…
GROSS DESCRIPTION: The specimen is received in formaling and labeled with patient’s name, patient’s ID number, and appendix. It consists of an appendix measuring 6 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm. There is periappendiceal fat attached to it which measures 6 x 4x 1 cm. The serosal surface is hemorrhagic. Upon opening the appendix there is purulent exudative material. The wall thickness measures 0.3 cm. Representative sections are submitted in 1 cassette. Microscopic description preformed.…
The patient’s is a thirty eight year old single woman. Her drug of choice is alcohol. She had her first drink at age 13 at which time she would sneak drinks at family gatherings and sometimes on the weekends with friends. At age 18 she started to drink more frequently and greater amounts, about 8-10 drinks, on each occasion. At times she would pass out. She noticed her drinking becoming a problem around the age of 28. She was drinking every night to “relieve stress” and sometimes missed working the next day because she was shaky and sick. Over the next two years she gradually increased the amount she drank from 1-2 bottles of wine a night to up to 3 and added shots of vodka. She noticed that she had to have a drink in the morning “even herself out”. She reports significant loss in appetite and weight loss of 20 pounds in the last three months.…
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a cancer that grows from cells that produce white blood cells and starts inside the bone marrow. It is also known as chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL). It is a myeloproliferative disorder symbolized by increased production of the granulocyte cell line without the loss of their ability to separate. Subsequently, the peripheral blood cell profile shows a larger number of granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils) and their undeveloped precursors, including occasional blast cells.…
1. The nurse is caring for a patient suffering from anorexia secondary to chemotherapy. Which strategy would be most appropriate for the nurse to use to increase the patient's nutritional intake?…
Regarding our recent inquiry as to the viability of an Abl-Bcr inhibitor and the marketability thereof, it is of prudent management to discern the separation between our drug candidate and those drugs currently existing in the market, and evaluating the ease of development as well as long-term payoffs of said inhibitor. First, however, an introduction to chronic myeloid leukemia, its symptoms and diagnoses, as well as current treatments, is in order. In better understanding the disease, we can more properly evaluate our proposed treatment.…
Cancer can be dangerous to human health. Symptoms of this disease depend on the type and location of the cancer. A patient diagnosed with cancer suffers different symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, diarrhea, constipation, and blood in the stool. Expect chills, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, and weight loss. Cancer can be detected early using different apparatus and tests like MRI scan, CT scan, Complete Blood Count (CBC) and Biopsy. The earlier we detect cancer, the lesser symptoms we’ll experience and the chance to cure this disease before it spread all over our body.…