1. How can eliminating abbreviations reduce errors? I think that eliminating medical abbreviations would reduce errors because many abbreviations are very similar and people get confused between them‚ however‚ if abbreviations were eliminated it would make it very difficult on medical professionals. They would have to write out very lengthy medical terms. According to Dr. Darryl S. Rich‚ “to minimize the potential for error and to maximize patient safety‚ prescribers need to avoid such specifically
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Medical Marijuana Angelica Andrade COM/172 November 10‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Medical Marijuana The use of "Medical Marijuana" has been a controversial issue for thousands of years. The debate over whether marijuana should be legalized has long troubled American citizens. However‚ long before America was even an idea‚ many cultures had harnessed the plant and used it for many primitive medical purposes. Approximately twenty-three states in the U.S. have legalized marijuana for
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Chapter 3 – Medical Record History of Present Illness The patient is a 61 year old female. The patient is complaining that they feel weak‚ their urine is dark‚ nausea‚ pain in the abdomen. Past Medical History Mrs. Carter has suffered from seizures since she was 14 years old. She has been taking Dilantin to help keep her seizures under control and to a minimum. Clear history otherwise. Physical Examination Temperature was 99.8 Pulse was 83 Blood Pressure was 120/84 Abdomen area was swollen
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MD‚a‚b‚c Francis B. Mimouni‚ MD‚c‚d Shaul Dollberg‚ MD‚a‚c Ram Reifen‚ MD‚e Gina Ashbel‚ RN‚a and Dror Mandel‚ MDa‚c Departments of aNeonatology and bPediatrics‚ Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center‚ Tel Aviv‚ Israel; cSackler School of Medicine‚ Tel Aviv University‚ Tel Aviv‚ Israel; dPediatrics‚ Shaare Zedek Medical Center‚ Jerusalem‚ Israel; and eFaculty of Agriculture‚ Food and Environment‚ Hebrew University‚ Jerusalem‚ Israel KEY WORDS metabolic rate‚ music‚ preterm infants‚ energy expenditure
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20.07.2013 THE EFFECTS OF MEDICAL ADVANCES Everyone’s dream is to have a long life. Recently‚ it has become possible with the advancement in medicine. Many scientists are still doing research and experiments so that people live longer. In my view‚ medical advances should allow people to live with the people whom they like for a long time but it also disrupts the natural balance.
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Marijuana Legalization Marijuana should be legalized and taxed by the government because it has a low risk of abuse‚ and it can be used for many medical reasons. Prescription drugs kill about 100‚000 people in the world each year. Off the top of your head‚ do you know how many deaths are caused by using marijuana‚ either medically or recreationally? According to statistics‚ marijuana has not yet been recorded to be a cause of any death‚ ever. Not only are marijuana’s
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Pregnant woman’s involuntary hospitalization raises legal‚ ethical‚ medical questions My newspaper article was about a woman named Samantha Burton‚ a pregnant woman who was forced to be hospitalized. She was 25 weeks pregnant and forced on “bed rest”. Although Burton’s doctor confirmed that she was not in labor. Burton’s doctor took matters in his own hands and came back with an attorney forcing Samantha Burton to stay in the hospital against her will. The attorney was on line with the judge John
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Medical Apartheid In the book‚ Medical Apartheid‚ Harriet A. Washington touches on some major soft points‚ that really made me think and I believe that if many other people read this they would be surprised as well‚ because when she goes into detail about the cruel treating of African Americans in the past‚ it is just shocking to find out what we didn’t know. Basically‚ Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. It begins
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Family Medical Leave Act 1993: Workplace Issues Introduction In the early 1990 ’s‚ congress recognized that an increasing number of children were being raised in situations where both parents worked outside the home. For many‚ the idea of starting a family‚ or expanding the family‚ was complicated by the fact that both parents worked. In other homes‚ families struggled because a family member with a serious medical condition such as diabetes or asthma would often lose time from work because
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“Even if it is a clear cut case of misdiagnosis‚ for example‚ the patient must prove that his condition was worsened by the error before a jury can‚ as a matter of law‚ award him pecuniary compensation” (Holder‚ 1957). The foundational definition of medical malpractice was established in 1898 in the New York case of Pike v. Honsinger‚ when a man kicked in the knee by a horse
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