physician or nurse will make a home visit, telephone consultation, or a condolence letter. Primary care physician helped patients to express condolences, encouraged them to talk and express feelings, explore spiritual concerns, and also prescribe hypnotics. The district nurses would help with discussions of arrangements to be made and local services available. Even despite the physicians and nurses finding these methods helpful, it is hard to develop a study to see the full benefits. Most…
Adult women, having matured into consummate self-loathers, detesting the bodies in which they were born, express their hatred by taking it out on their own children: Mrs. Breedlove adopts the conviction that her daughter is ugly, and Geraldine curses Pecola’s blackness. The idea that ugliness is in fact a state of mind is presented early on in the book when illustrating the Breedlove family: “Mrs. Breedlove, Sammy Breedlove, and Pecola Breedlove—wore their ugliness” (38). This sentence provides…
The baby boomer generation is entering their retirement years living longer and being more active than any previous generation. These older adults are expressing a desire and an expectation that they will remain mobile in their community and enjoy the associated freedoms that come from driving for as much of their lifespan as possible. Regardless of profession, most service providers will be working with older adults in the next several decades. Understanding the public health implication of an…
An Open Letter to Congress, Since before Nixon’s declaration of the war on drugs, our nation’s policy makers have stigmatized the use of marijuana of any form. Since then research has found many novel uses for marijuana medically. With the enactment of Proposition 215 in 1996, the stigmatization of marijuana began the slow start of dismantling. Proposition 215 allowed those with the agreement of their primary care giver the ability to possess or grow marijuana for medical purposes—without the…
Inappropriate Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly and Possible Solutions The growing elderly population presents medical, mental, and emotional health issues dissimilar in many ways from those of a younger population. Many elderly struggle with problems such as insomnia, post traumatic stress disorder, alzheimers disease, and general anxiety disorders associated with aging. One study indicated that approximately 20% of seniors experience significant anxiety, while even more experience mild…
CHAPTER THREE A Hot Knife through Butter I slip through the glass like a hot knife through butter and I was back in Sirethiel. Although as I stood I thought it was strange, I hadn't been gone that long, but I don't even recognize the place. It was like I was on the surface of the moon. Maybe this wasn't the kingdom. Maybe I was someplace else, another ancient distant world, far away. I looked around and didn't see any trees, bushes, or water. The place was silent, cold and dark. As I walked I…
“The Lottery:” Submit or Scream According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, prior to World War II Adolf Hitler scapegoated Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals for the economic problems that were facing Germany (Untied States Holocaust Memorial Museum). During the Holocaust, many in Germany, Austria, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and even America turned a blind eye while these individuals were rounded up and murdered. It is all too easy to call this atrocity history as if…
fantastic speaker. His speeches might a little off or funny, and that 's what the people thought of him until he made it into power of the German government, but most of his fantastic speeches had an effect on his political audience that was pretty much hypnotic. First of all, this is what gave him the leadership of the group called the Nazis, as other members joined, the only way they could get into any sort of power was by having Hitler do his speeches in a large audience. Then, Hitler had his…
In the United States, there has been a rapid increase of Americans with a prescription for psychotropic medications. Pharmacutical companys are spending more on advertizing, as well as, influencing doctors to push their products on to more patients and in larger quantities. There has been much controversy raised about whether or not regular medical doctors have enough training to accurately prescribe psychotropic drugs to mental health patients verses psychiatrists; however, shouldn’t all…
"This adaptation is like a painting, it has a beautiful frame that could be the narration itself presented and preserved throughout the show, and the impressive artistic quality enclosed in this frame that is compared to the hypnotic and vivid sunset that fascinates our eyes and earns our total attention." At first, you may be a bit skeptical after reading the summaries of this anime, the central theme is a bit unusual, a ballroom anime. Also, you can think, a dance competition, another anime…