Papers on Health and Medicine
The Effects Of Lead Poison On Children
Words: 2310 - Pages: 9.... Where it may make
its way into underground water or drinking water due to the fact the grounds
acidic or if it's soft enough. Either way it stays a long time on the soil or
in water. Months or years down the road after the lead has built up it starts
to become a problem for children that play outside of their homes (Xintaras,
1993). These lead containing soil particles get on the child's hands or
clothing and end up in the child's mouth. After the build up of so much lead it
leads to a problem commonly known as lead poison. Lead poisoning has been an
issue since the early 1900s, when the use of lead started being banned from the .....
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Human Nature
Words: 544 - Pages: 2.... be when a young child does
something wrong without knowing that it was wrong, their mother or father
might yell at them, and say to them something like: "Bad boy, go to your
room!" The child might then understand that what he did was bad, and he is
getting punished for it. The child might then not do anything similar from
then on, because he knows that it is socially unacceptable. The child
might also continue to do bad things, because he doesn't realize that what
he did was wrong.
Another way evil may be introduced into a person can also be from a
movie or the media. The first time a person sees a movie with violence and
killing, the p .....
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Bronchitis
Words: 824 - Pages: 3.... mucus and pus in lower part of lungs instead of bringing
discharges up and out. The result is chronic cough, shortness of breath,
sometimes spasm, and frequent infection.
In acute bronchitis, the basic symptoms are a head cold, fever and chills,
running nose, aching muscles and possibly back pains. This is soon
followed by the obvious persistent cough. At first the cough is dry and
racking and eventually becomes phlegmy. The persistent cough is worse at
night than during the day, and when the person breathes in smoke and fumes.
The main symptoms most recognized in chronic bronchitis is, again, a cough,
with sputum, often occ .....
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Why IQ Tests Don't Test Intelligence
Words: 726 - Pages: 3.... has been learned from the
psychology of perception, it is clear that a person's environment has a
great deal to do with their cognitive abilities. Is the light flickering?
Is the paint on the walls an unsettling shade? Is the temperature too hot
or too cold? Is the chair uncomfortable? Or in the worst case, do they
have an illness that day? To test a person's mind, it is necessary to
utilize their body in the process. If everyone's body is placed in
different conditions during the testing, how is it expected to get
standardized results across all the subjects? Because of this assumption
that everyone will perform equally independe .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 713 - Pages: 3.... illness
that has invaded a member of their family. Think twice before making any
serious decisions.
Euthanasia is an inhuman way of taking care of a difficult problem.
Some people might say that it is inhuman to have someone suffer through the
pain of his or her illness. Many of the families have a harder time dealing
with the pain than the actual victim does. The families would like to ease
their own pain along with the victim's pain. It is not inhuman to keep
someone alive as long as humanly possible. If a cure is found, then the
victim could possibly go on to live a long life. It would be inhuman to not
let the victim have the chance .....
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"Braces Suck!"
Words: 462 - Pages: 2.... for others to watch the pain and
embarrassment the patient has to goes through. If one should forget to brush
their teeth before their visit, they will regrettably become immortal as the
doctor announces the left-over remains of a Turkey and Cheese sandwich stuck
between the molars. Braces become a constant source of embarrassment.
Braces are three to four years of physical torture beginning with the
very first office visit. The applying of the brackets itself is long, tiresome,
and uncomfortable. First, cold, flavored clay is shoved into the inside of the
mouth, forming a mold as it dries. Jagged metal squares (brackets) are glu .....
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The Effects Of Marijuana Use
Words: 529 - Pages: 2.... might be experience too. The effects can be
quite different depending on the amount of the drug consumed and the
circumstances under which it is taken. Marijuana has not been proven to be
physically addicting and no physical withdraw symptoms occur when its use
is discontinued.
Second of all, marijuana usage can also have non-pleasure giving
effects. Mood changes are often accompanied by altered perceptions of time
and space and of one's bodily dimensions. The thinking processes become
disrupted by fragmentary ideas and memories. Many users report increased
appetite, confusion, acute panic reactions, anxiety attacks, fear, a sense
of he .....
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Three Important Values In Nursing
Words: 893 - Pages: 4.... in this profession which can not be appropriately managed without employing one's own compassion as a fellow human being as a reference point. In order to provide an appropriate balance of emotional and physical care one must be able to 'put themselves in the patient's/family's/loved one's shoes'.
In a recent "NurseWeek" article (see bibliography), Deepa Arora discussed the issue of instilling hope in patients with ALS or 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. This disease, although it is fatal and causes ongoing deterioration of the body's ability to move, leaves the mind completely alert and does not affect intellectual function.
This article incl .....
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Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, And Legally Wrong
Words: 1358 - Pages: 5.... was never given an opportunity for success, as
her life was taken. A not guilty verdict would have told people that parents
of disabled children can perform both voluntary euthanasia on their children.
In the United States, euthanasia was voted on for the first time in the state
of Washington. Although polls before the vote revealed strong support for
it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent,and euthanasia
remains illegal in Noth America. In addition to violating civil law,euthanasia
also contradicts the laws of many religions of the world. It is God who
controlls life and death. Man will take this responsibility if .....
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Health Experience
Words: 832 - Pages: 4.... and given special care. For heavens sake women make the world go around!
Politically women’s health care system is crap. Women fight and struggle with it everyday. Women are more prone for health care just for the single reason of being a woman. So do you think that the system would give women a break? Of course not, "Because women use the system more often, we should pay higher insurance premiums." "’Poor women and women of color are liabilities, while insured women are ‘markets’ and ‘billable’ resources." "doctors accuse ‘poor’ women of not taking proper care of ourselves or our children, or they see drug use and .....
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