M.S. is a 35-year-old female who came into urgent care at Kaiser Permanente Riverside. She presented with a sore ankle that was causing her problems after accidently twisting it by missing a step in going down a set of stairs. The only prior medical history that M.S. has is a history of asthma that is currently managed with appropriate medications. Even though she has a history of asthma, she reports smoking cigarettes and often drinks alcohol. She also reported not having a very healthy diet. Upon examination of M.S. ankle, it is concluded that she minors sprained. During normal examination, her vitals signs are obtained which showed a respiratory rate of 16, pulse of 100, temperature 97.2OF, blood pressure of 151/91, pulse oximetry of 99%. Since it was noted that her blood pressure and heart rate where both high, it is assessed on the opposite arm and it showed a blood pressure…
Therapeutic Use – Control, improve, or cure symptoms of a disease: Example – Insulin, Antibiotics.…
Drug treatment has been found to be effective in relieving the symptoms of mental disorders in many people. Despite the claims made for some modern drug treatment, however, there are critics and the use of drugs remains controversial. Fisher and Greenberg (1989) believe they have…
Vaccines and Medications are very important. With these two we have had a significant decrease in the number of people that were hospitalized or caused death. With the “advances in medical science” you can be protected against more diseases. Medicines can either heal, prevent, or stop diseases or a sickness. Medicine can be used in the form of a tablet, syrup, drugs, and exercise. When we get sick we take medicine for many different reasons. With the help of medicine it will “restore us back to normal”.…
The author talks about how our whole society has become so reliant on medication. We all have a cabinet full of medication in our house and we are depend on these medications for everything that’s wrong with us. We rely on our medications so much and expect them to cure everything as if they’re magic. He also mentions that we take our time to go get our prescription, take our medicine, and store it in our cabinet yet we never use it again after our initial dosage.…
Psychiatric medication wasn’t developed until the 1950 's (Ferguson, 186). In days that are now long forgotten, society stigmatized people with mental illnesses so much that they were kept chained up in asylums (Ferguson, 187). People also used to categorize people who were in prison and people with mental illnesses as the same thing. Until one day somebody brought up the fact that they didn’t think it was right. So then a few years later, they resulted in moving them to different sides of the hospital. Some people, taking meds, can function better. And they may only need to take them for a short amount of time (Mental, np). Taking medication doesn 't always cure the disorder, but it helps to make the person function better (Mental, np).…
the essay will look at the medical treatment and the role of medicine in the biopsychosocial…
suffer from mental illness tend to self medicate with both prescription and illegal drugs, as well as…
However, they caused significant side effects develop, it is often difficult to make further treatment portable. However, physicians and patients have hope, if not a cure, but in any case, a radical help. Indeed, psychoactive drugs significantly changed the face of psychiatric hospitals. After the 50s and 60s of the twentieth century, practically no cases with the malignant course. The appearance of patients gained more and more pronounced human features. Sometimes it was possible to solve social…
Mental illness is a broad name for conditions that affect a person normal cognitive ability to make reasonable judgments, process emotions and may affect a person each day behavior. It can affect a persons’ mood, thoughts, and behaviors causes impairment in functioning. Understanding of the area of mental illness comes from research in the field of epidemiology; the scientific study of patterns of health and illness within a population…
The report that follows is a review of the final report from the LA, that I will present in the next team meeting. In the discussion I will refer mostly at the National Standards regarding the administration of medication (current UK standards and current legislation, national enquiries). To produce a good report, I need to include the risks of medication to service users, staff and organisation using examples from our context.…
There are many different types of treatments that are offered to patients when they are ill. The first one is medication. Medication to help treat symptoms or the relieve pain. There are lots of people who use medications daily due to their illness. A second one is surgery. Doctors cut on patients who need a surgical replacement or remove a diseased part in or on their body. The list goes on and on to help people with all type of health issues. Each treatment is designed to help people function properly with their everyday lives and live healthy. There are treatments for newborns all the way to the elderly. Some treatments have side effects that may make them feel worse or don’t work at all and will have to discuss other options with their…
Dictionary reference of Medication is: a drug or other form of medicine that is used to treat or prevent disease. (Oxford dictionaries online)…
A study conducted by the New England Research Institute found that 43 percent of people who are prescribed drugs do not have a psychiatric diagnosis or any mental health care. There is increasing evidence of doctors prescribing medication without sufficient cause or care. Many of the doctors do not even discuss the side effects that go along with the drugs. The amount of psychiatric therapy has decreased over the years and the amount of prescription drugs taken have increased.…
The understanding of mental illness today since the early 1900s has changed significantly. In the 1900s, people still had no real understanding of what caused mental illnesses, let alone how to treat the disease. The disease was feared and was seen as incurable. Mentally ill patients would be sent to asylums, and as a form of treatment they were tortured. Until in the later 1900s, it was discovered that certain factors and drug therapy could be a treatment to cure the mentally ill. Today there are various forms of treatment and treatment settings for the different mental illnesses that help to benefit the patients’ condition.…