Medical education

technology has greatly advanced over the last 25 years. Healthcare continues to evolve in complexity through the progression of time. Policies and procedures have been implemented and revised to accommodate swift changes that have transpired. Medical diagnoses and diseases have increased in number over the last decade, which enhances the need for healthcare services. As more and more patients seek healthcare services, the need for record keeping and easy navigation when reviewing patient…

dynamic field of complex information gathering will affect nursing as we move forward. • What influence does informatics have in nursing? Informatics is something that will influence nurses across the broad as it is more and more interrogated into medical facilities. This dynamic way of gathering and sharing information will not only be something that we will see just in hospitals but we will soon be seeing it more and more in small clinics as we heard from our previous guest speaker Vicki…

With America’s growing population in the minority race, the healthcare field needed to reflect the change. Therefore, medical schools implemented affirmative action plans in order to address this issue. However, the controversy started to rise when white college applicants began to take legal action against public universities and medical over the admission process. While some people suggest affirmative action enhances students learning experiences, others argue that instead of using race as a…

Today alone 18 people will die waiting for an organ transplant. Just one person can save up to eight lives by being donors. Medicine and medical procedures can no longer save the terminally ill. Assuming that the patient chooses to donate their body to science, they can help others live even in their death. The choice should always be the patients, whether they are choosing to donate their…

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…

Lenders were able to access patients medical records then deny their application for a home mortgage, credit card, and in decision making within human resources (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2006). Individual’s civil rights were being violated without ever seeking permission to view their personal medical history. On March 18, 1996, Bill Archer (R), introduced the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…

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…