Emergency medical services

Euthanasia, also known as physician assisted suicide, is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or irreversible coma. The term euthanasia comes from the Greek words, “eu” meaning good and “thanatosis” meaning death, which forms “Good Death”. Euthanasia’s first recorded use was by a Roman historian, Suetonius. It was used to describe the death of Augustus Caesar. Easy death has been applied to hopeless patients who have been suffering extreme pain.…

animals for medical research. Different people have many different views on this topic. Is it humane to experiment on animals? Does a life-saving vaccine warrant the pain of a dog or cat that has deliberately been given a disease? Is extending a medical understanding worth the caging and mutilation of an animal? One must consider a variety of different perspectives to come to a reasonable conclusion on the question, should…

the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as a way for Americans to continue with health care insurance during a job transition and reduce health care fraud and abuse (California Department of Health Care Services, 2015). Providing health care services at the administrative level, the organization is responsible for protecting the individuals served private information when working with other health care providers and those supporting the individual needs. In this analysis…

dissimilar approaches to healthcare can be explained by the regime each country follows. Iceland is a social democratic welfare state that has a high degree of de-commodification. This means that citizens of a democratic welfare state are given certain services regardless of the economic situation. This is true in regards to personal finance and the financial state of the nation. The United States functions as a liberal democratic welfare state which mean that citizens are treated on an…

those not well trained. The high error rate, which includes severe consequences for doing the procedure incorrectly, needs to be addressed with transparency, training and follow-up. AHRQ seems dedicated to raising the level of awareness of human medical error and finding ways to reduce the risk whether through process, policy or training. I believe they are playing a pivotal role in pushing QSEN and KSAs to the forefront of improving patient-centered health…

be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. in China. Additionally, in the world’s oldest pharmacopoeia, also from China, drug recipes for more than 100 ailments including, gout, rheumatism, malaria, and absentmindedness were treated with marijuana. Non-medical uses for marijuana in ancient times included paper and sailcloth making as early as 1000 A.D. in the Arab world and continued to be used as such well into the 1800’s in Europe and its colonies.…

The controversial topic of assisted suicide is often considered when dealing with an inoperable or incurable cancer, such as brain or lung cancer. The suffering of these cancers is excruciating and the waiting for death to take away their pain feels like an eternity. Assisted suicide provides an option to illnesses where death is the inevitable outcome. For example, lung cancer eats away at a person’s lungs making it extremely hard or nearly impossible to breath, making each breath feel like it…

Colorado has pulled in a vast amount of money since the legalization of marijuana in the state. Harry Bradford from The Huffington Post states, “In 2011, Colorado reeled in $5 million in sales taxes from medical marijuana businesses”(Bradford). Opening new businesses typically creates debt, but marijuana is so popular amongst various groups of people, that it can only expand and create more jobs and open in more locations. Bradford continues and writes that…

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein. We’ve all read a million quotes but once in a while you read one and you just stop and think. For everyone else, these are words like any other but not for you; you relate to it because deep down you know how the person felt when he/she said those words. I’ve always thought of myself as a curious person, always wanting to figure out what makes things tick. Whether it is a TV, a computer, a car or a human being. Believe…

of life had completely deteriorated, they denied her. In February of 1994, a doctor helped her in secret, thus breaking the law, in order for her to finally rest at peace. And lastly, Mr. Sanpedro also went through the courts in order to receive medical assistance with his death. As a young boy, Mr. Sanpedro was paralyzed from the neck down after an unfortunate accident while swimming in Spain. The courts denied him because there were plenty of other people who were in the same condition…