Essays on Medical Ethics

In most health facilities as well as the states, policies are exclusively focused on how to increase healthcare amenities access while neglecting the actual need for quality in care service provisions. The need to have increased demand for health services has assumed that the currently...

Palliative care nursing is a speciality where you observe your patients in their most vulnerable moments. Whether it be watching a patient struggle to hold on until their last family member arrives to say good-bye, or accompanying them as they take their final breath. It...

The History of Palliative Care In the late eighteenth century, there was an increasing trend of doctors being around the time of death of members of upper and middle class families. This trend continued to grow as the nineteenth century advanced and new medical innovations...

Abstract Palliative care needs to be demonstrated in a way that makes sense and comes with mutual understanding of the patients and their families to reach its goal. A nurse having strong communication skills can positively influence palliative care patients’ understanding in order to promote...

Introduction Palliative care is a term not unheard of. Bringing exposure to these two words are mainstream media such as television, or more conventional mediums in the form of written language in books and newspapers. Palliative care refers to helping those with chronic illnesses —...

Being a doctor is first of all about being able to observe thoroughly and listen well. There needs to be a very good interpersonal relationship between doctor and patient. So a doctor should be able to assess the signs, look for symptoms and arrive at...

Ava Jones is a four-year old girl who is in severe renal failure. Severe renal failure results in the gradual decrease of the kidney’s functioning, and leads to the inability to filter waste from the blood (Johns, 2018). Ava’s physician has noticed that her ability...

Task Shifting Margaret Chan director of WHO defined task shifting as a rational distribution of tasks among health workers team where specific tasks are removed from highly qualified health worker to health worker with shorter training and few qualifications. It was a method of strengthening...

Technology has changed the world as we know it. Over the years, scientists and engineers have introduced numerous ground-breaking innovations and techniques to make every single task easier, faster, and more practical. But, technology hasn’t always been at its best like it is today. It...

Steroids and HGH Steroid use in medicine and sports has heavily increased since steroids were first invented. “The history of anabolic steroids can be traced back to as early as 1930’s, before the term steroid was even used. In the 1930’s, a team of scientists...

Medical Risk Adjustment is a concept that has begun to see the light of day now that the healthcare paradigm is rapidly moving towards value-based reimbursement schemes and a greater emphasis is on outpatients. Read on to get a better understanding of MRA and how...

Should we help those who harm others? Let me make it harder for you. Should we help those who harm themselves? A self inflicted illness. An illness that has been caused due to the behaviour and decisions that one person makes. Picture the scene: It...

According to an article from 2017 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, one in five patients report discrimination in health care, whether it be in terms of race or ethnicity, age, weight, or even income. Talking to a doctor or nurse about a personal...

TO TREAT DISORDER Enzymes play an important role to treat disorder. For example enzymes aid in breaking down the internal blood clots. Enzymes also used to dissolve the hardness walls of blood vessels. It may also improve the rate of recovering of the injured part...

I am delighted to write this letter of recommendation in support of Yike Cheng’s medical school application. As the volunteer coordinator at the Ottawa Hospital – General Campus, I met Yike back in 2013 when he reached out and started volunteering with us as a...

ABSTRACT India has achieved independence from the British rule nearly 71 years ago. But even today we lack in the field of medical facilities provided to our citizens. In this paper I would be discussing about the lack of medical and health facilities in the...

In his book How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America, Otis Brawley illustrates the battle between honest medical practice based on ethics and evidence-based science and corrupt medical practice that seeks greed, clinical experiments that cause harm and inadequate...

Medical Image Segmentation (MIS) has been applied to numerous applications like delineating tissue structures, cell counting, lesion and tumour tracking etc. Normally, the approach for MIS can be categorized into three types. First, segmentation using classical image processing techniques like thresholding, morphological operations, and watershed...

Medical Terminology is mostly originated from the Latin and Greek languages. When the Romans conquered Greece, around 400, the knowledge and language of both cultures merged, resulting in new medical concepts regarding disease treatment and containment. Medical records were written by hand. Much of the...