Veterinary medicine

The American healthcare system is much more expensive yet its results cannot compare to the cheap and effective Japanese healthcare system. Both systems are struggling, however, to maintain themselves. The American healthcare system is heavily flawed as the lower class cannot afford health care and more than 45 million Americans are uninsured. (Rosenthal, Medical procedures and drugs cost the most in the United States as compared to any other country, with drugs such as Lipitor costing $122…

Communication in Healthcare Efficacious communication among the healthcare staff is a necessary element that allows for the delivery of optimal patient care and is imperative for effective teamwork dynamics to transpire. When communication is disjointed, errors tend to occur and; consequently, inadvertent patient harm may ensue. According to Leonard (2004), communication failures are the leading cause of inadvertent patient harm. An analysis of 2455 sentinel events reported to the Joint…

The Oregon State Lottery There are still many improvements to be made to America’s health care system, but it has improved tremendously since 2010 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of uninsured people living in America has significantly dropped from 15.4% in 2008 to 10.4% in 2014. As this data and the Oregon health lottery case demonstrate, health care in the United States was either inaccessible or too expensive for many Americans and still…

Mental health is a state of wellbeing where every individual realises their potential, the ability to cope with the stress of life and can work productively (Who, 2016). In Australia headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation designed to provide early intervention providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds (Headspace, 2016). This has prompted Professor Anthony Jorm to write for The Conversation, Is headspace really improving young people mental health?…

While concerns were expressed and challenges and barriers reiterated by stakeholders regarding payment for these types of services during the many facets of the analysis process, of note, Texas is one of twenty states that have enacted parity laws requiring insurers to cover these types of services in the same manner they would for services provided in person (See figure 2). Thus, any solution implemented will not incur any additional associated fees or other costs to Haywood Memorial or its…

Employing effective communication strategies between healthcare practitioners and between patients is essential to ensure high quality patient outcomes. As healthcare becomes more complex, the focus for organizations will be on processes that facilitate collaboration and improve patient outcomes (Rosenstein, Dinklin, & Munro, 2014). This paper will review two strategies to improve communication: the use of the Situation-Background-Assessment- Recommendation tool, or SBAR for interprofessional…

as a man at providing healthcare. Her ability to treat patients with quality care was unexpected by many. Her journey’s throughout the medical field was not limited to one medical facility. She was instrumental in establishing the London School of Medicine for Women, which was one of the first educational institutions specifically designed to educate female physicians. She was not only interested in her career path, but also focused on creating opportunities for other women to follow in her…

overall quality of life of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, but there was not as large of a difference compared to the control group as they hypothesized (Lanning et al., 2014). Gabriels et al. (2012) did a pilot study to evaluate the effects of equine therapy on self-regulation behaviors, adaptive skills, and motor skills of school age children to adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study had 42 participants that were split up into groups of three to four to…

Almost twenty years ago a seventy something year old grandmother went to the doctor and was informed that her cancer had returned. Her family urged her to seek the recommended treatment no matter the cost. She declined treatment options stating that not only was she tired of fighting, she did not want to leave to her family a legacy of debt that would have been incurred from treatments that had no guarantees. We watched our grandmother slowly die as the cancer eventually metastasized to her…

Animal experimentation should be used to advance our medical research and medicine. In our society today we cannot stop the use of animal experimentation; our technology isn’t that advanced. In this paper you will see for example, how nonhuman primates is vital to science, experiments on dogs have led to medical breakthroughs, and that it is not possible to replace animals in Medical research. Nonhuman Primates is essential in the advance of science. In the article “Experimenting on Nonhuman…