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The Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs
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This 4 page paper examines prescription drugs and looks at two solutions in terms of how to address the rising costs. Generics are seen as the answer to the problem but the concept of drug buying pools is examined as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES
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This 3-page paper provides an explanation as to why health care and medical costs are on the rise in the United States. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Role of Belief and Ritual in Healing
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A 6 page discussion of the importance of belief and ritual in the healing process. The author points out that both can be either simplistic or complex and uses the example of percussion as a ritual that is common to many cultures. Data is presented that percussion is indeed of medical benefit to some individuals. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Role Of Electron Microscopy In The Diagnosis Of Disease
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5 pages in length. The role of electron microscopy in the diagnosis if disease has been defined as potentially lifesaving and a significant advancement in the technological advancement of molecular biology. Standard methods of diagnosing viral disease has typically employed the use of conventional diagnostic techniques such as serology and virus isolation, which require a wait time that may impair the patient's ability to medicate before the problem becomes worse. With a turnaround time of two hours to two days after specimen collection, electron microscopy has the potential for forever altering the method by which people are diagnosed with viral diseases. Early detection of viral particles is the secret weapon afforded an electron microscopy, a process that provides for organism detection long before any other standard testing method can do so. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Role of Nursing in Removing Patient Barriers to Pain Management
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A 5 page paper which examines the problem of patient barriers to pain management, considers nurse’s role in identifying and guiding the patient to better pain management, such as when a patient is afraid of addiction, takes the medication only out of complacency, and therefore receives inadequate relief from pain. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Role of Nutrition in Treating Celiac Disease
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A 10 page overview of this condition and the problems it introduces in terms of diet. This paper provides an overview of both the foods that should not be consumed and how to go about choosing healthy foods that can be consumed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Role of Nutrition in Treating Diabetic Patients
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This 5 page paper examines diabetes and how dietary factors play a role. Both Type I and Type II are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the role of a medical anthropologist in controlling malaria in Namibia. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and Occupation
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A 4 page contention that while medicine is evolving to be more humanistic, physicians seem intent on maintaining a solely empirical approach to healing. The author suggests that traditional cultures and women most often prefer the humanistic approach. Age, however, is a variable factor in determining an individual's perception of the ideal role of medicine and physicians. While the old of traditional cultures prefer the humanistic approach, the young of those cultures prefer the empirical. Just the opposite can be observed for mainstream culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Second Sickness by Howard Waitzkin
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5 pages in length. Howard Waitzkin's book The Second Sickness is a culmination of the Marxist-oriented analysis considering the current contradictions in society that form the basics of problems in the health-care systems. This book explains the structures of oppression and the social origins of illness, which, because of corporate interference in health care, have emerged as even greater problems arise. Also considers the issues at hand in the healthcare industry concerning technology and profit, as well as lessons to be learned from such countries as Chile and Cuba. Based on the second edition of Waitzkins' book, this edition takes into account changes that have occurred since the first edition was published in 1983. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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