Intensive care medicine

to decide which road to go down. We can take the road where we give our lives over to advance medicine, technology, mounting bills that may lead to bankruptcy, and strangers. Making this decision may force us to submit to treatments that idle our brains and sap our bodies, all for the slightest chance of benefit. With this decision, we can end up spending our last days in nursing homes or intensive care units where treatment regiments cut us off from all the real important things that matter to…

Health care organizations must effectively position themselves alongside their competitors to gain a strong strategic edge over the market. Service area competitor analysis is necessary to determine the geographical setting of the service area, obtain an understanding of the competitors within the service area, identify the competitor’s vulnerabilities, assess the impact of the health care organization’s own strategic actions against specific competitors, and identify some possible moves that a…

Becoming a Pediatric Doctor Pediatric Doctors , also known as Pediatricians specialize in treating babies, children, adolescents, and young adults. They treat illnesses and other health conditions while also providing preventative care (How to become a Pediatrician). There are 5 steps to becoming a Pediatric Doctor; an aspiring Pediatrician must obtain a bachelor’s degree, graduate from medical school, earn a license, complete a pediatric residency, and earn a board certification (How to become…

If a patient in such a condition chooses to participate in a research study, they would be able to offset the costs of intensive or end-of-life care. Furthermore, the money spent annually on healthcare adds up to approximately: “$50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives” (The Cost of Dying). This shows that people deeply care for their loved ones, and are willing to spend large amounts of money to preserve their…

Kroft it costs up to $10,000 a day to maintain someone in the intensive care unit” (Court). Patients who live with a terminal illness are faced with thousands of bills to cover their medical expenses. In the article “The Cost of Dying” it goes into detail about patients who was receiving end of life care. “The real problem is that many of the patients that are being treated aggressively, if you ask them, they would prefer less aggressive care. They would prefer to be cared for at home. They 'd…

goals and people needs. Therefore, this goal would involve all people either patients or not in our market, and it would attract physicians to sign contracts with my network. 2 The ACO (Muslihi) would provide better health through including preventive care services in my plans, such as immunization, screening and yet consulting. Also, the network would ensure that people have the right plan to keep them healthy. Finally, they would make sure that the costs are reduced effectively, through costs…

the stimulating chatter that ensued across the board. Anyway, as you might remember, this past week, we discussed several topics, including, your personal experiences with policy making and implementation, use of the PDSA cycle, and the Affordable Care Act. This week, I would like to share some of the nuggets of information that resonated with me across the forum. So, join me in reviewing these summary statements. Enjoy! Policy Making “We were successful in launching Vivitrol at the following…

I remember one time, when I was in the hospital doing an internship, there was this patient that was on her deathbed. I remember her saying she did not want to live anymore. On that day the elderly patient, who was in the Intensive Care Unit breathing her last breath, was slowly allowed to die. This was about two years ago and I’ve never forgotten that moment. I was told that day that sometimes you have to let the patient pass. A physician is taught to do no harm; however, when should a patient…

“You study this in pharmacy, but in anesthesia you get to see it instantly because it’s IV. It tied things together, so part of the reason was pharmacy”, but the main reason was his personality. He saw himself as more of an acute care type of person than a chronic care type of doctor and was more interested in tackling a critical situation immediately and moving on than working in…

Radiology is a novel field of medicine that combines the expertise of a radiologist together with the knowledge of therapeutic intervention using advanced techniques using a range of imaging guidance modalities such as X-ray fluoroscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to accurately treat a medical condition. By the same token, Baum and Baum (2014, p. S76) implies that using the same diagnostic imaging tools that transformed medicine also assist the…