Medical prescription

parents enter physician’s office with thoughts about what is and what is not causing their symptoms to transpire offering their own interpretations (Gill & Roberts, 2012). Such encounters will allow for the opportunity for physicians to apply their medical expertise with a goal of promoting wellness, healing, and satisfaction for parents playing the role as patients. Several communication barriers are currently taking the front seat in pediatric care. The first communication barrier is…

Medical Marijuana: A Better Option to Pain Treatment over Prescription Opioid Narcotics Medical marijuana is a much healthier alternative to narcotics in most cases for the use of treatment of pain for epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. Two of the main cannabinoids in medical marijuana are: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidoil (CBD). CBD is the compound that has significant medical benefits and the fact that CBD-rich cannabis…

end their life. Another argument that may come into play is that the patient’s voluntary and informed consent may never be certain because most individuals who want to die are under pressure. Others opposing euthanasia believe that when continued medical care to cure an illness or disease have failed, hospice should come into play. This creates time that all efforts should be made to make the patient’s remaining time as comfortable as possible. Thus, all interventions and treatments should be…

and I take care of that baby like he is mine! I am very careful with kids and I understand them. My interests is just me seeing that I saved a baby and there smile just makes my day. Pediatricians are medical doctors who work with children and teenagers, diagnosing illnesses and writing prescriptions. Currently there are 38,000 job openings for a Pediatric left, in 2015, in 2014 there was 24,000 left. The college I am interested in is Texas A&M University. I am interested in this…

The MN Medical Marijuana policy is well-intentioned, and a step in the right direction. If the goal of this policy is to provide relief to as many sick people as possible, then this policy will not be effective enough. This policy allows qualified patients to use medical marijuana in pill form, or as oil in a vaporizing device. Patients are not allowed to smoke marijuana or ingest “edibles”. There is no scientific evidence that smoking or eating marijuana is more harmful than other forms of…

relief to people with conditions like Glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and AIDS. While other medications add to the patients suffering with severe pain, nausea, vomiting and many more; Cannabis help alleviate that pain. With this new finding in medical research, California passed the Compassionate Use Act in 1996. This act allowed any seriously ill person the right to grow and use cannabis if a doctor prescribed him herbal treatment. The persons caregiver is also given the right to grow…

There is a need for nearly every type of medical service is needed in impoverished countries, especially in central and south american countries. I plan on minoring in Spanish so if I were to volunteer abroad I wouldn’t be facing a language barrier. I have developed an interest in volunteering abroad after a mission trip to Nicaragua and I would like to continue to volunteer and travel. This desire makes the idea of gaining medical experience abroad attractive to me. I would be pandering…

A 2013 report in Washington showed that since 2009, there have been 549 prescriptions written and 525 deaths. Vermont’s numbers are much lower, showing that since 2013, only two prescriptions have been written (Physician-Assisted Suicide Fast Facts, 2015). The topic of physician assisted death is an extremely controversial issue for many in the healthcare field. Many, many articles…

Although there is a considerable amount of evidence supporting why psychologists should not be granted prescription privileges, many opponents argue that permitting this right is necessary. Proponents that support enabling prescription privileges argue their viewpoint through three main reasons. One of their reasons is that each year more people are in need of mental health services. With more people in need of such services, a higher demand for those who are qualified to prescribe medication is…

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…