Medical diagnosis

It is important to recognize that in Meleis’ theory, many of the details are addressed in the type of transition, the facilitators and inhibitors in the transition and the patterns of response. I do think that the complexity science concepts are crucial in maintaining and providing long term maintenance of chronic illness and the trajectory of the client in their understanding of their illness. Complexity science illuminates the nature of the transition process and changes that occur while a…

Over the years, the amount of women in the medical field has increased tremendously compared to back in the days when the medical field was mainly occupied by males. For example, in 1970, only 7.6% of females were physicians in the medical field but by 2000, the percentage of women that becomes physicians increased to 24% which is a huge increase in a pretty short amount of time. Although the amount of women in the medical field has increased, the amount of gender discrimination moves such as…

The main argument in favor of mandating cognitive enhancements in the case of the cognitive enhancement Drug A would be the drugs ability to reduce medical errors by 20% and reduce the death rate by 5%. Any utilitarian argument would state that the value of saving a life is more important than any other moral argument against the use of the drug. However, the utilitarian argument fails to consider the…

a change in clinical experiences, the shortening of education time, and working restrictions all created medical personnel with deficiencies in their learning. Universities struggle with ways to best prepare clinicians. The Institute of Medicine’s report of patient safety issues has come to the forefront of educators and healthcare providers. Because of this lack of critical thinking, medical staff fails to recognize the deterioration of a patient, which results in poor patient outcomes (Robert,…

final year medical students, Amber was attending Sind Medical College and Ammara was attending Dow Medical College. The context of “The Right to Live and Die? A Perspective on Voluntary Euthanasia,” had a neutral viewpoint on physician assisted suicide and focused mainly on presenting both sides of the arguments regarding the practical use of euthanasia by doctors. They discussed the morals and reasoning’s…

use of medical marijuana has been a huge discussion topic in the United States. Many people argue the pros and cons of this drug being used for medical purposes. The large scale debate incases many different opinions on this drug. There are more patients that are claiming that marijuana is effective in treating symptoms from many different types of illnesses and disease. Learning more about the drug, the chemicals that can be extracted from the plant, can have the most benefits to the medical…

My essay is on Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and the code of ethics. Ultrasound Technology is referred to as a sonogram; it is a device that uses high frequency sound waves humans cannot hear to create an image of the inside of the body. This is typically used to see the stomach, liver, heart, a child in the womb, tendons, muscles, joints and blood vessels. There are many different types of sonography, such as, anesthesiology, cardiology, emergency medicine, obstetric, and neurology, to just…

The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest binding documents in history. It was written by the physician Hippocrates and despite being written centuries ago, many doctors still take the oath and use it to guide them in the ethical practice of medicine. It states “First do no harm.” Throughout history, doctors has done as much as they can to treat and keep their patients as comfortable as humanly possible. But this line of reason begins to blur with the issue of physician assisted suicide. Joe…

domesticated and wild animals in scientific experiments has been praised for its contributions to scientific and medical advancements. However, there are some that see animal testing as an inhumane and unethical process that does more harm than it could ever do good. Although their views contrast each other, the sides both agree that there needs to be ways in which, the animal testing…

they had watched someone terminally ill die, and of the 57% 85% support euthanasia. Another supporter of the cause is Dr. Donald Low, he was terminally ill, and was diagnosed with brain cancer (healthy debate, 2014). Dr. Low was ranked high as a medical official, and made a video and how much he supported euthanasia for those suffering (The Globe and Mail, 2013). Dr. Low was becoming deaf and was blind in one eye. He was talking about how he was inevitably going to die, but with the option of…