In Valley Medical Specialists v. Faber, 194 Ariz. 363, 982 P.2d 1277 (1999), the court held that the covenant between Plaintiff Valley Medical Specialists and Defendant Faber would not be enforceable. Valley Medical Specialists employed Dr. Faber as an internist and pulmonologist in 1985 to treated HIV-positive patients. This therapy known as Brachytherapy could only be treated at certain facilities as not all facilities obtained the necessary equipment to do so. When Dr. Faber ended his employment with Valley Medical Specialists, he signed a covenant. The covenant prevented Dr. Faber from accepting employment in a competing facility in a five-mile radius.…
What effect do these images have on the writers' purpose? A vivid feature in this nonfiction book, is how descriptive the sentenced are in the book. The book consists many detailed sentences about the fever and how to deal with it. A lucid quote in the book, “The skin and eyeballs turned yellow, as red blood cells were destroyed, causing the bile pigment bilirubin to accumulate in the body; nose, gums, and intestines began bleeding; and the patient vomited stale, black blood.…
Holmes created a financial scandal of his own. When he opened his hotel, he bought everything on credit. “He had no intention of paying his debts and was confident he could evade prosecution through guilt and charm.” Surprisingly, he managed to keep many possessions without spending any real money and didn’t have to face any furniture dealers or anyone “whom Holmes had cheated over the previous five years” for a long time. What ended up happening was that he had to face them all at once.…
Robert Watcher, in his book The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, describes the many effects, both helpful and harmful, that have distinguished this age of computers in medicine. Watcher uses his influence as the professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and his years of experience in the field of medicine, to look down on the developing world of technological medicine and offer his own opinion. Just from the title one can gather that not all is right with the field at present. His interesting and amusing narrative intends to combine the rapid development of technology, with the age-old science of medicine, and hopefully fix what has…
Clarkson continued to do things like this, such as “to ask the country’s most prestigious medical society”(Murphy 25), to help fever victims. Matthew Clarkson also not only did many things to help fever victims, but he…
The article¬–“Humor In The Physician-Patient Encounter”–features three Medical Doctors. Board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology with a specialty in hepatology and clinical nutrition, Dr. Jeffery T. Emeritus Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University, Dr. Jack Coulehan. Lastly, the final member of the Trinity in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Associate Professor in Medical Education-Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, Dr. Catherine Belling. The authors hone in on gallows humor in relation to the physician-patient encounter. They illustrate that doctors face a myriad of physically and emotionally taxing situations in their training to become a physician.…
In the podcast, “Bad Medicine, Pat 3: Death by Diagnosis”, Dubner talks with many researchers and people involved in the medical field about the irony of the enduring effects of medicine. Dubner shockingly reacts to a conclusion mentioned in the podcast that states medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer. How has medical error earned its place in the number three position and what can be done to analyze and understand this ranking? Medical error can include writing prescription drugs when not needed, resulting in over treatment. America is the leader in consumption of painkillers.…
In my opinion, James O’connell – the president of BHCHP organization (Boston healthcare for the homeless people) – is one of the few people who really helps (or try to help) poor people and tries not just to fix their problems temporarily and put short-run bandages, but also tries to help them get out of poverty and show them future, which is not oriented on living in the street and thinking to get a bed for that night or have dinner (being oriented on just one day), but looking forward in the future. He, himself, had a hard time to become “a street doctor”. At first, he wasn’t even able to ask any medical questions. This was completely different from what he’s been taught in medical school.…
We've had some major news stories about Medicare Advantage Plans overcharging lately. What exactly are they about? In May, we heard about a couple of Florida MAPD insurers that agreed to pay almost $32 million to settle a lawsuit that said they made patients seem sicker than they really were so that they could get larger payments from Medicare. Dr. Darren Sewell filed the lawsuit in 2009.…
A patient goes to a local hospital to be treated for a tumor found in his body. The doctor is already getting paid thousands of dollars to extract the mass, and during the procedure, he realizes that the cells from the patient are abnormal. He knows he can potentially make millions of dollars from the cells that extracted. The ethical thing to do before profiting from these cells, is to inform the patient of the cells’ capability. The patient should know that they can help countless people, and that the cells are worth millions of dollars.…
QHQ #2: Individual Liability Contrary to popular belief, poor access to health care is not the central problem to the health of an individual in poverty; rather, health is associated with certain social determinants of health, specifically individual risk factors. In the book Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham, the concept of how an individual’s decisions can drastically impact their health is clearly expressed through the lens of Tommy, an uneducated individual who does not follow the advice given by his physician. The choices that Tommy makes in respect to his health outside the four walls of the hospital are what contributes to his declining health. There are two primary individual…
1. Discuss the Cultural Humility (1. Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection, 2. Recognize and mitigate power imbalances, 3. institutional accountability) needed to serve this client?…
I came across a report Racial Bias in Health Care and Health penned by Dr. David R. Williams and Dr. Ronald Wyatt which discusses racial and ethnic disparities from a health care perspective and why steps should be taken to address it. He shares his experience when confronted with implicit and explicit bias as a patient at a local hospital. Implicit bias is behavior that results from subtle implicit attitudes and implicit stereotypes that often happen unconsciously and without any overt intent. I personally connect to this article as I recall several instances where my mother, grandmother and I were involved with medical personnel who we felt treated us negatively due either to biases, microagression, lack of cultural humility/sensitivity,…
Medical Malpractice Why it went to court. Mary Carnahan HA 210 Medical Law and Ethics October 31, 2014 Introduction We are going to take a medical malpractice case that went to court. Research the case to see why it went to court. I chose a medical malpractice case from Phoenixville, PA.…
Becoming a Doctor I decided I wanted to become a doctor less than a year ago. Arriving at college back in August, I was still skeptical about whether or not it was truly what I wanted to do with my life considering my only reason for becoming a doctor was that I liked the human anatomy and helping people. However, this course and its various intriguing readings and lectures have provided me with significant insight to the world of medicine beyond the basis of diagnoses and prescriptions. The information about the numerous aspects of medicine in the articles we have read have only fueled my interest in becoming a doctor by giving me the proper information on what the job of being a doctor truly entails.…