Papers on Health and Medicine
Euthanasia
Words: 1913 - Pages: 7.... be evaluated as humanely filling a void created by our
sometimes inhumane modern society.
Antithesis Statement
Euthanasia is nothing less than cold-blooded killing. Euthanasia cheapens life,
even more so than the very divisive issue of abortion. Euthanasia is morally
and ethically wrong and should be banned in these United States. Modern
medicine has evolved by leaps and bounds recently, euthanasia resets these
medical advances back by years and reduces today's Medical Doctors to
administrators of death.
Euthanasia defined
The term Euthanasia is used generally to refer to an easy or painless
death. Voluntary euthanasia involves a r .....
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Myasthenia Gravis
Words: 1269 - Pages: 5.... than females. It's prevalence is about 1 in 7500, with about 40,000 cases in the United States. It is not known to be inherited but first-degree relatives have a 1000x greater risk of developing MG than the general population, suggesting a genetic predisposition.
Clinical Features
The cardinal feature of MG is muscle weakness and fatiguability. The muscles most commonly affected are the oculomotors, which cause ptosis or diplopia. MG can also commonly present with oropharyngeal muscle weakness. The patient may regurgitate food through the nose, be unable to chew meat, speak in a markedly ‘nasal’ tone, or have a history of cho .....
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The Healing Process
Words: 1056 - Pages: 4.... never got the habit of happiness as others know it. It was always as if
we were waiting for something better or worse to happen".
Psychological theory of change suggest it is possible to heal, to break
out of the glass bubble, to develop the attitude of happiness. For example, in
"The Process of Change: Variations on a Theme by Virginia Satir says on Page 89
that "successful change-making turns out to involve struggle, necessitating
skill, tenacity and perspective". The struggle occurs when a foreign element
produces chaos until a new integration occurs which results in a new status quo.
Kurt Lewin echoed this view in saying that an old .....
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Dreams
Words: 676 - Pages: 3.... to popular belief, dreaming is not caused by eating certain
foods before bedtime, nor by environmental stimuli during sleeping. Dreaming is
caused by internal biological process. Some researchers have proposed the
activation-synthesis hypothesis. Their neurological research indicates that
large brain cells in the primitive brain stem spontaneously fire about every 90
minutes, sending random stimuli to cortical areas of the BRAIN. As a
consequence, memory, sensory, muscle-control, and cognitive areas of the brain
are randomly stimulated, resulting in the higher cortical brain attempting to
make some sense of it. This, according to the r .....
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Physician's Responsibility
Words: 520 - Pages: 2.... the doctor has an obligation to every patient's privacy. But the husband can not ask the doctor to lie to the pilot's wife or ask the doctor to do something illegal as to prescribing her antibiotics that would also cure her gonorrhea. The doctor only can cure her for what he knows that she have. The doctor could suggest to wife that she should get a blood test done too as for a physical. But he will have to get consent testing for HIV. The only other thing the doctor can do is talk to he husband, to persuade him to tell his wife on his own accord. Another reason why it is important to tell the wife is because she is pregnant. If the .....
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Pros And Cons Of Abortion
Words: 3069 - Pages: 12.... from the moment of conception. This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970 (Sproul)
Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over for the past few years and probably many years to come. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized? First before we get into the many sides of abortion we must first define abortion. Abortion is the destruction of the fetus or unborn child while the child is still in the mothers womb. This can be done by almost anyone from the mother herself to back alley abortions and even to abortions by clinics set up especially for this .....
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes
Words: 1443 - Pages: 6.... can be made into cloth, canvas, and other high quality textiles. The use of
Marijuana for textile production would have seriously hurt Dupont who had
invested heavily in both paper production and the use of cotton. In 1936 Dupont
joined Hearst and using scare tactics and effective lobbying were able to ban
the growth, sale, and use of Marijuana.
Besides denying the public of the use of Marijuana as a textile, food
source, and alternative energy source, these large companies selfishly robbed
many sick people of a drug that can help them. Marijuana can be used to combat
glaucoma, epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, back pain, asthma, rheumatism .....
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Schizophrenia
Words: 639 - Pages: 3.... fall victim to auditory hallucinations,but some of these hallucinations are also visual.Some of the "voices" these patients hear,are related to the patients emotional problems,while others are just jumbled messages.
Location and Occurrence
Schizophrenia occurs in all cities and countries.All social classes are affected,but in the larger cities schizophrenia is three to four times more common in the lower classes,than in the middle and upper classes.Doctors say this difference is due in part to the downward social status of people developing the disease."Schizo" occurs equally as often in men and women,however it occurs at an earlier age f .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
Words: 1062 - Pages: 4.... carriers. This disease affects the liver, pancreas, airways, small intestine, reproductive tract, sweat glands, and your skin.
is accompanied by many symptoms; some of the most common are salty-tasting skin, persistent coughing, wheezing, or pneumonia (Scientific 1). The patient usually will have a great appetite but poor weight gain and bulky foul smelling stools. causes mucus to clog the lungs and leads to fatal infections. The thick mucus also obstructs the pancreas, preventing enzymes from reaching the intestines to digest food (Scientific 1).
Lung problems are the most common cause of death of patients (CFF 4). .....
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Cancer
Words: 3410 - Pages: 13.... killing tumors. This is when cancer research took a turn and began to
focus on the “molecule of the year”, as proclaimed by Science magazine.
Recently, Nikola Pavelitch of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center was able to get a photo of the gene, and she notices that when the
disease (cancer) is forming, rogue molecules are present that keep it from
performing its good deeds. There have since been 5,200 studies on p53 and
researchers are sure it will be a major discovery.
The p53's function is as the director to control damage within the
cell. When it is healthy, normal cells keep them around and they continue
t .....
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