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Healthcare Documentation Specialist INTRODUCTION If I decided to be a healthcare documentation specialist, I would assist doctors and therapists in recording patient medical records. The reason I chose this career is because I am interested in health and would love a career in healthcare. Through my research, I hope to learn about the education that is required and what kind of information I would have to learn to succeed in this career. I am interested in medical terminology and anatomy, so I…

table sugar which came from sugar beets, they also contain nearly equal proportion of smaller glucose and fructose sugars. Both HFCS and sucrose differs in the amount of fructose that is contained in each, but are almost equally in being chemically equivalent. Dr. Robert Lustig implies that overconsumption of too much fructose over time can cause metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and fatty liver disease which are some of the major diseases…

Is Nuclear Energy safer to use than Coal Energy? Human beings use energy almost every day, everywhere, and at every time. This counts as one of the biggest necessities of life; we use to power our homes, towns, and cities. In order to create energy, a substance needs to be used to start the generation of energy, some of these resources include coal, water, etc. But one of the most overlooked energy producers tops the charts in safety and consistency is nuclear energy. When many humans hear…

to muscles during “fight-or-flight” responses. While at Survival Technology, Incorporated, “Kaplan sought to create a device intended to quickly inject a user suffering from anaphylaxis -- a potentially fatal allergic reaction -- with an emergency dose of epinephrine” (Cahill 1). The purpose of this design was so that one could easily inject the stick of epinephrine into one 's thigh which then prompted the spring-loaded mechanism to push a needle that contained the epinephrine into the user’s…

The prolonged use of therapeutic glucocorticoids is associated with a range of adverse effects (figure 1). The detrimental effects on bone have received the greatest focus and there are now a range of therapeutic strategies available to reduce the negative effects of glucocorticoids on bone [1]. Endogenous or exogenous glucocorticoid excess is also associated with other serious clinical features such as the development of insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance and frank diabetes [2].…

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • Systemic illness due to microbial infection that can lead to acute organ dysfunction or failure and associated with host immune response to infection CLASSIFICATION • There is a disease continuum with increasing severity if not treated or not responsive to treatment o Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) - Documented or suspected infection with systemic manifestations of infection - Clinical response to a nonspecific insult of either infectious or…

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs when certain cells of the immune system go awry and mistakenly recognize and kill (or inactivate) the insulin-producing β-cells. The β-cells are housed within the islets of Langheran along with the α-cells producing glucagon and other cells (footnote i). β-cells depletion leads to physiologically insufficient production of insulin and persistent high blood glucose. The disease is manageable with daily insulin injections and a healthy life…

Pharmacological activity of enantiomers of Salbutamol: Salbutamol, the most generally utilized short-acting β2-agonist, comprises of a racemic mixture of equivalent measures of two enantiomers, (R)-salbutamol and (S)-salbutamol. The bronchodilator impacts of salbutamol are credited altogether to (R)-salbutamol (levosalbutamol), while (S)-salbutamol has been demonstrated to have bronchospastic and expert provocative…

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder otherwise known as ADHD is the most common behavioral disorder in children in the United States affecting about 4.7 million children ages 3-17. The most common treatment children with ADHD is drug therapy, a prescribed stimulant narcotic. The number of children in the United States who are treated with prescription drugs for ADHD has increased significantly. The concern between doctors, parents, and child advocates are that too many children are…

Legalize Marijuana One of the greatest debates across this country right now is the topic of whether or not marijuana should be legalized. Marijuana is currently legal in some forms in 23 different states. The majority of those states have legalized marijuana strictly for medicinal reasons, while in only four of those states is recreational use of marijuana legal. Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is commonly perceived as unattractive and useless to most Americans. They see it as addictive…