Socialized medicine

rates of success, most of them are strictly theoretical and require further research to explore their validity, as well as applicability. First, there must be a reform in maternity leave policies for women within the medical profession. Women in medicine are forced to postpone having children and in the cases of some, forfeit it completely. Osterweil reports that a sizable amount of female physicians say that if given the chance to do it all over again, “they might have tried to have children…

Heart disease is the driving force behind the death rate in the United States, also ranking first among both genders (The Heart Foundation, 2015). Take control of your health conditions and make healthy choices on what your body consumes can help reduce your chances of developing heart disease. However, people of the community and families can cooperate to the contingency for people to make better health choices. Public health functions performed at numerous levels from regional to national, to…

alternative and complementary medicine. (5 pts) a. Alternative medicine is a medical practice that uses healing and preventive measures that are not viewed or practiced by western medicine. It uses healing methods that are more connected to cultural practices than that of biomedicine. It’s usually used to advance and enhance health. Alternative medicine is usually combined with palliative care to serve as a method to reduce chronic pain and illnesses. Examples of alternative medicine are…

completing those years of school, you are required to pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination to be able to practice medicine. Pediatricians must be certified by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) in order to be accepted for a pediatric subspecialty certifying examination. After certification, the applicant must have a valid license to practice medicine in any which area they may perform medical practices. Succeeding becoming licensed, comes the verification of the pediatrician…

In the United States, medical services are not free and they certainly are not cheap, therefore reimbursement for these services is highly important. Today, health care reform is a hot topic with an emphasis on improving patient care and reducing the cost of medical services. Many providers currently use a fee-for-service reimbursement model, which is a quantity over quality method that allows providers to bill for services separately despite whether the quality of care was good or poor.…

Occupational Therapy for Pediatrics Occasionally, life takes us through unexpected paths. When my son was a three years old, I began to notice that his development did not correspond to his age. My son could not trace straight lines in any direction; he also had difficulties with drawing and holding a crayon. At the beginning, I thought it was normal, but still, as a mother, I started paying more attention, and soon I realized that it was not normal, and I began to worry. I came to the decision…

Settings for Health are the place that people use in daily activities and where people produce or deal with problems relating to health (WHO, 1998). It is also a social context that contains the environmental and personal factors that affect health and wellbeing (WHO, 1998). Settings are generally recognized as having a physical extent, people with various defined roles with this extent, and an organizational structure, including workplaces, universities, islands, cities and prisons (WHO, 2015b)…

As word spreads about the so-called “zombie apocalypse” we have set up an emergency shelter at the Federal Correctional Institute at 1101 John A Denie Rd, to provide a refuge for citizens. We have relocated all of the prisoners that were housed here to other locations and cleared out the entire prison to make room for as many refugees as possible. Seeking shelter here is recommended if you do not have a safe place to go as its heavily fortified, food and medical supplies are available, and it…

her supervisor, Sandra Skipper, has been stealing patient’s medication from the medicine cart. Emily has not seen the act take place directly; however, she did observe Sandra leave the nurses station looking suspicious with her head down and hands in her pocket. Emily wants to report the situation, but she is leery for two reasons. First, she believes it is partially her fault because she did not lock up the medicine cabinet in a timely manner. Secondly, Emily does not have solid proof of the…

Summery of Are housestaff identifying malnourished hospitalized medicine patients? By Michael A. Mitchell, Donald R. Duerksen, and Adam Rahman Hospitals have a percentage of “40%-60%”(Mitchell, 2014, p.1192) of patients admitted with malnutrition. The “nutritional and functional status” has plummeted leaving elderly patients to increase their stay. Malnourished patients are more susceptible to infections, which lead to “impaired wound healing”(Mitchell, 2014). Regardless of its “high prevalence…