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Losing the King of Pop After months and months of working on his comeback, the Michael Jackson This Is It tour was almost ready. But sadly, he and the rest of the world would never get to experience this comeback. The news spread through the world like wildfire, resulting in an incredible amount of grief, sadness, and sympathy. One of the most influential artists in music, The King of Pop, was dead. On June 25, 2009, Jackson was found unconscious in his home in Los Angeles by his personal…

The main measures for interview is established by good rapport, respect patient privacy, recognize face value, move to the patient's field of vision, SOLER as a reminder to sit directly, have an open posture, lean forward, make eye contact and relax, ask open-ended questions, one thing at a time, listen, culture matters, and avoid the medical terminology. This writer sets into view to interview an African-American gentleman with a two years history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…

Social Interaction and its Effects on a Novel Object Recognition Test There are many different ways to test memory and approach behavior, but one of the most popular for rat models is the novel object recognition test. The novel object recognition test is a simple behavioral analysis of memory that is influenced by a rat’s natural exploratory behavior. The test is a simple analysis because there is generally an absence of outside rules or reinforcement at baseline. Outside influences can be…

Every day healthcare workers must make decisions when providing care to their patients. Some of those decisions are clear cut such as providing medicine that will stop nausea or medications that will relieve the pain of a heart attack. Other decisions in healthcare blur the lines of bioethics. One such area is end of life care and whether to assist a terminally ill patient to die. The practice of assisted suicide has been given names such as "death with dignity" or "right to die" to make it…

Names: Generic: modafinil, Trade name in New Zealand: MODAVIGIL® (MIMS 2015). Drug class: Central nervous stimulants (Wake- promoting agents) (Ballon and Feifel, 2006) Formulation: Modavigil ® is formulated as modafinil white to off-white, crystalline powder in tablet form. It is available in tablets containing 100mg of modafinil. Excipients in the tablet are: lactose, strach, pregelatinised maize, maicrocrystaline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, providone and magnesium stearate (Medsafe,…

Methadone is a Schedule II drug that belongs to the opioid family of drugs. Methadone it is an extended acting synthetic tranquilizing painkiller. In the early 1960s, two New York physicians, Marie Nyswander and Vincent Dole, ascertained that when methadone is taken on a daily base, it is a constructive habituated medical treatment for individuals who have become opioid addicts. Since the 1960s, methadone has been strategized to help people who are dependent on illicit drugs such as opioid,…

Flakka is known to be a new street drug that was originated in South Florida. This new street drug is known as to be a chemical cousin of the amphetamine-like drug that you can mostly find in bath salts. It is also placed in the category of being a synthetic and/or designer drug. It comes in many different forms making it easy for anyone to be able to access it out in the streets. It is very addictive and makes its users experience some very highly paranoia delusions. Flakka abuse is treatable…

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder What is it? Justin VanSickle Block 8 11/19/2014 Always fear the flame, lest you be devoured by it, and lose yourself. Traumatic experiences can putrefy, rot, and completely level the essence of a soul. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder also commonly known as PTSD by the plebeians of the world, is a terrible disease that is cause by a variety of reasons, it has effected military combat veterans since the beginning of warfare, it can be treatable, it changes…

Title: Medical Marijuana- the Best Alternative Medicine? Is the concern surrounding the legalization of medical marijuana use founded in scientific proof, or is it just all about a bunch of hype created by people wanting to get high without the risk of getting caught? What are the options out there for marijuana users to medicate, without smoking it so our states don’t become over run with marijuana smoke if this is legalized? Are there truly proven health benefits received through the use…

William, a 26-year old recent college graduate is afraid of losing everything, his relationships, his job, his family, himself. His started worrying when he was younger; would his parents be fighting this week, now that his parents were divorcing he worried that his mom wouldn’t have enough money to live on her own, was this his fault? How could he have let this happen? When William started track his junior year of high school he couldn’t stop thinking of what others were thinking of him, after…