Socialized medicine

During the first half of the 20th century, the world of medical research began to flourish. As new treatments for chronic illnesses were being discovered, physicians, researchers, and social reformers sought to improve women’s health. Despite racial discrimination and poverty struggles, the efforts made greatly improved women’s access to healthcare. Maternal and infant death rates began to improve along with doctors’ attitudes towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an…

Honesty in the medical profession has always been a difficult issue, particularly in the case of the doctor and patient. Often, a doctor will be tempted to withhold information from his/her patient with the belief that he/she is sparing the patient from the distress receiving such information can cause. This justification is termed “therapeutic privilege” by the American Medical Association (AMA, 2006); and many physicians, such as Dr. Collins, defend the use of such practices. However, this…

Question 1 of 5 Under the HealthyPeople.gov website’s tab, “Implementing Healthy People”, five processes are listed under the acronym “MAP-IT”. Identify and describe these five processes. What is MAP-IT? This agenda has been used through evaluating the public health services to accomplish Healthy People 2020 objectives. MAP-IT could helpful to a healthy society and the country (Program Planning, n.d). Healthy people effort is to re-create and re-visit goal every 10 years. Health care, cancer,…

Introduction The history of medicine can be traced back to antiquity in the epoch of where it was a common belief that causation of disease was a direct result of divine intervention. As time progressed, so did the concepts and practice of medicine which shifted to a more scientific and rational approach from a religious or set of quasi-scientific principles. This discourse will examine the idea that the advancements in biomedicine has resulted in a therapeutic encounter in which holistic…

A highly controversial, and relatively new, argument of utilizing animals in the testing and development of medical research has left scientists in the crossroads on the ethics behind the entire operation. Approximately twenty-six million animals are in the United Stated each year for both scientific and commercial testing, in which these animals are used for a wide range of dangerous procedures. These animals are used for testing the safety of medications for human consumption, determining the…

CHF and Hospital Readmissions Congestive heart failure is a growing chronic condition in the United States that accounts for approximately 11 million physician office visits and 875,000 hospitalizations (Heart Failure Statistics). Further complicating the issue, 25% of these patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge and at least 50% are readmitted within six months (Cost considerations in the treatment of heart failure). The intensity of the disease process poses a financial strain…

Certified nurse anesthetist are different in comparison to pediatric nurses. Many people may think that there is no difference between them because they are both nurses, but people do not understand that each nurse has a completely different specialty. The two types of nursing jobs have different tasks that need to be completed, different education requirements, different annual pay rates, and different benefits that come with the job, but each nursing job has similarities, including these two…

“The Bitter Pill” starts off with an acrimonious tale of how a man that was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma ended up borrowing from his in-law to pay for his exorbitant cancer treatments. After I picked my jaw from my desk, I started pondering what could the cancer treatment breakdown be that warrants the price to be so high? I, of course, am aware of how corrupt the healthcare system is in the US, but, to what extent, not so much. The medical jargon used in the hospital bill, along with…

physicians to monitor my health and wellness with blood work and physical exams. Compared to the Nacirema culture, my health choices target an upstream approach of health care. With their culture in mind, I would urge the people to see visit the medicine men at least once a month until they completely understand their health. It may be difficult to relate this information to the community without being culturally destructive because they may feel like my suggest is targeting them for not being…

Recommended Changes Todd R. Clear (2004) expressed that “Good intentions do not matter and may in fact, be a detriment.” (Clear, 2004, p. 70) This can certainly be applied to issues in mental health courts that need to be addressed. Nancy Wolff, Nichole Fabrikant and Steven Belenko (2011) findings that mental health courts are shaped by formal and informal selection criteria is extremely problematic, informal selection criteria clearly suggests that an individual may be turned down in one…