Medical malpractice

would be interested in doing myself. This field is focused on advancing and making new discoveries that are all focused on the common goal of bringing the medical field forward every day. The idea of learning and doing something new every day and solving problems fascinates me. From creating artificial organs and prostheses, to fixing medical and surgical equipment, biomedical engineers make the world of medicine easier and more efficient. These engineers help people and solve new problems every…

Ms. Gore is a 36 year old female who presented to the ED via LEO under a custody order to be evaluated for suicidal ideation with a plan to overdose and hallucinations. Ms. Gore denies suicidal ideation to nursing staff. She states, "I'm not suicidal, just don't want to live anymore." Per documentation from MCM he reported Ms. Gore reported to him she misses her brother who died around this time of year. She reports to him she needs to go to a hospital to be put on the right medication. At the…

Evidence for the benefits and challenges of the PCMH delivery system: Benefits: The patient-centered medical homes model is growing and those practices have more non-physician clinicians on staff and higher utilization of electronic health records (Finnegan, 2017). This is crucial with the on-going shortage of health care personnel. • PCMH practices had…

In the early days of athletic training, it wasn’t that hard to become an “athletic trainer”. Trainers in the early days were basically volunteers. They didn’t have any type of training or certification to be doing that job. Up until 2003, a person would only need certification through NATA curriculum or an internship. In the internship route, a person wanting to be an athletic trainer would take various classes and courses like personal health, human anatomy, basic athletic training, and first…

Medical Animal Testing People have their own beliefs as to whether medical animal testing is beneficial or not. Animal testing is a sensitive subject for most people and they automatically disagree with it because of the inhumane way they treat animals. One problem is that animal testing in many people’s eyes is not ethically right. Scientists test on animals and inject them with the infection to try to find a cure for the disease. If the scientists inject two rats with the same disease and…

Although human genetic engineering is an innovative process, Leslie Pray and Danielle Simmons provide sufficient evidence to justify the limits that should be placed on these types of medical…

Euthanasia has first been introduced during the time period of the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. Many physicians have supported the thought of a quick and easy death instead of having the patient suffer an illness. Although physicians in this time period are supposed to follow the Hippocratic Oath,- an oath written by Hippocrates to treat the ill to the best of their ability, to give a patient their privacy, to teach their secrets of medicine to the future generations, and to forbid from…

empathy and being shown that their values, choices, and needs are being taken care of. This is known as the quality way to end-of-life-care. This is a physician-assisted death; however, it differs from the term euthanasia. This meaning that medicine is given by a doctor, after a rigorous process, to a patient where the medication is self-administered at the time when a patient feels that it is necessary. The physician does not administer the medication; therefore, different from euthanasia. As…

The Tarasoff Case Study When an individual suffering from a mental illness threatens to harm another, who should be extended the right of protection: the one making the threat or the potential victim? To answer this question, it is essential to understand the Tarasoff Case, the arguments for both the rights of the mentally ill as well as the potential victim, and how various religions view this ethical question. In August 1969, Prosenjit Poddar sought mental health treatment at Cowell…

Radiology and Sonography are two very important cornerstones in the medical field. The two both have a lot of similarities and a lot of differences that are unknown to students wanting to pursue a career in either. They both require mostly the same schooling, however you have to learn the different job practices of each. Whereas both help diagnose, students interested in this field need to understand the skills utilized because Radiology and Sonography both require different techniques. For…