CC Lilly is a 24-year-old female here today with a young child, to discuss not feeling well. HPI The patient tells me she was worried she may have strep throat, but now she is not sure that is what she has. Her symptoms started on Sunday June 14th, where she felt very tired most of the day.…
Andrea Smith, a LPN of Truman, Arkansas, pled guilty to wrongfully disclosing a patient’s health information for a personal gain. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years of imprisonment, and a $250,000 fine. Andrea, and her husband Justin Smith, were indicted on federal charges by violating the HIPPA in December of 2006. She was working at the Northeast Arkansas multispecialty clinic, in Jonesboro. Basically, Andrea Smith accessed a patient’s private medical information on November 28, 2006.…
The case happened back in 1961. A married women, Gwendolyn Hoyt, who suffered physical and mental from her husband, ended up murdering him. She then showed neurotic behavior. Her case was judged by a six-man jury for 30 years of hard labor. Hoyt pointed out that it was discrimination to let all-male jury deliberate her trial.…
In a Walgreens pharmacy in Indiana, Abigail Hinchy dropped off her prescription and picked it up like she has done many times before. However, behind the counter was a pharmacist that didn’t uphold the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The pharmacist (Audra Withers) shared confidential medical information about the client that once dated her boyfriend. Withers improperly reviewed Hinchy’s prescription history and shared the confidential information. Withers current husband had previously fathered a child with Hinchy.…
In the court case The People of the State of Colorado v. Sandra L. Jacobson, Jacobson is convicted of homicide. The homicide resulted from her truck colliding with a taxi cab while she was driving under the influence. There were two passengers in the taxi at the time of the collision and both were killed. Jacobson appealed the court’s decision on the basis that the trial court did not allow her attorneys to gauge whether or not the jury had become biased due to mid-trial publicity that included inadmissible information. On the fourth day of the trial, the Court was made aware of the fact that a local television network would be covering the incident that led to this trial on its evening news program.…
Although REI’s strategy has allowed it to grow, it is also easily subject to imitation. As other retailers attempt to cope REI strategy, REI’s market shares are threatened (Komvopoulos et al., 2013).…
A sleep-deprived Catherine Galliford is running on adrenalin and ragged nerves after a wild week that saw the RCMP corporal rock her employer with claims that she was sexually harassed and bullied by senior officers, even as she served as the spokesperson for two of the biggest investigations in the force's history. Galliford was calm and competent on camera as the public face of the RCMP's investigations into the Air India bombings that claimed 329 lives, and serial murders committed by Robert Pickton on his Port Coquitlam pig farm. But while Galliford's allegations of harassment reached as far as the House of Commons this week, one of her most explosive claims is only now being made public. Galliford says the rampant sexism within the ranks of the RCMP that ruined her health and career may also have contributed to the mismanagement of the Pickton murder investigation, at a cost of many lives.…
A major leak affecting the United States currently was the recent release of the names of companies, government agencies and organizations that had called D.C. Madame’s escort service between 2000 and 2006. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, also referred to as D.C. Madame, is accused by federal prosecutors of running a prostitution ring earning more than $2 million over thirteen years. Palfrey’s business began in 1993 and she contends that her escort service was legitimate.…
The medical ethics case on Dr. Anna Pou questions the ethics itself in several forms and different issues. The issue is that the medical departments, nationally or locally, should always provide care for patients no matter the type of emergency or disaster. It doesn’t matter the amount of laws and regulations they pass or provide to help medical institutions work easily and efficiently, which should help provide patients with medical care they rightfully deserve and need. In order to be able to successfully allow such difficult decisions to be made and acted upon such circumstances, such as the one occurred in Medical Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, they need to create clear and conscious laws that is workable and lawfully and medically ethical that the head and the staff of the medical institute can follow easily to avoid such situation in the future. As Dr. Pou has been trying to pass laws to help…
Historical Setting In a 1966 amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the federal government began providing financial aid to states that provided education for children with disabilities. The program evolved into the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) of 1970. After a couple of lawsuits and an updated Act, the government determined that students with disabilities had the right to public education, and parents had the right to participate in the process (Wright, 2010). Amy Rowley, a first-grader with an auditory impairment, and her family filed suit against her school district in the Federal District Court after the New York Commissioner of Education affirmed the school district’s decision to refuse a sign-language interpreter.…
Vera Bradley market position allows them to strategically employ a pricing skimming strategy. Because of their retail and outlet presence that can charge higher prices initially in the retail space and then decrease the price when the products are moved to the outlet. This strategy allows the retailer to maximize profits in the space where consumers are less price sensitive but also attract a market segment that is more price sensitive. Vera Bradley uses data analytics tool, InsightPricing to manage their business.…
On September 23rd, 2011, Teresa Lewis, a citizen of Danville, Virginia, was pronounced dead by lethal-injection at approximately 9:13 p.m. (Crawford 74). Being that 46 executions took place in 2010, Teresa Lewis’s case would seem indifferentiable to the others; however, evaluations of Lewis’s mental state incited controversy based on the morality of her case (“The Death Penalty…”). The controversy erupted after Lewis’s defense lawyer filed a position for clemency briefly after disclosing that she had an I.Q. of 72, providing the justification that Lewis “did not possess the intelligence to have planned for the killings” (“US woman Teresa…”). Much to the dismay of her defense lawyers, family, and advocates, Teresa Lewis still underwent lethal injection for conspiring to murder her husband and stepson.…
Overall the company is at a competitive disadvantage as it is behind almost all factors which includes creative design, innovation, quality product, best pricing, brand reputation, brand awareness, and globalization. Michael Jacob products have the highest sales and is the strongest competition for Vera Bradley. Strategic Issues In general Vera Bradley must open more stores focusing on the Asian markets. Also Vera Bradley must create new designs for their handbags and accessories.…
Currently, Vera Bradley’s strategic plan focuses on three key areas: product, distribution channels and marketing. Vera Bradley’s major product offering categories are handbags, a wide variety of accessories and travel items. The plan for the product strategy places an emphasis on improving the assortment of the offerings by concentrating on its core designs, without creating an overly broad line. Also, they wanted to create new-targeted product lines, such as catering to professional women. Vera Bradley’s distribution plan was to utilize a tightly integrated multichannel distribution channel.…
Exhibit 1 provides details of comparison of the brands. As can be observed Inditex has overtaken competitors by number of markets operated on and revenues. At the same time H&M overcomes competitors by pricing with the average price of an item to $21 as compared with Zara `s average $48 and Gap`s - $65. The unique business model of Zara lets to achieve the lead time of 2 weeks as compared with 3 plus weeks of H&M and nine-month cycle of Gap.…