Essays About Patient

In the early 1980’s the use of control and restraint as a means to managing violence and aggression within mental health was introduced to the Special Hospitals following an investigation in to the death of a patient at Broadmoor hospital (Ritchie 1985). Control and restraint...

As a nursing student one thing that always seemed to come up in every lecture was medication errors and how to avoid them. The instructors would always go over the “five rights” of medication administration. These medication administration rights included the right patient, right drug,...

Busy days and increased workloads can place any individual in a higher risk to make errors. In a healthcare setting, the increasing workload for the nurses or physicians can cause them to make errors in medication administration. These may sometimes not cause any adverse effects...

In my undergraduate year I attended work experience at a local community pharmacy. Here I experienced a situation where a child who had just been discharged from hospital after an abscess draining. The parents of the child explained how the previous antibiotics had not worked...

Mortality prediction of intensive care unit (ICU) patients facilitates hospital benchmarking and has the opportunity to provide caregivers with useful summaries of patient health at the bedside. The development of novel models for mortality prediction is a popular task in machine learning, with researchers typically...

The curvy and lengthy nature of expanded access program of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for experimental drug therapy as well as the inability to enroll all the sick patients in the clinical trials led to the formation of a channel through which terminally...

After my MBBS graduation, I have spent majority of my time working in rural and remote communities of Punjab, India. My real love for rural and remote general practice began in the year 2006, when I got my first government rural physician posting in a...

In 2015 according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery nearly 305,856 women and teenagers underwent surgery to have their breasts enlarged; 15% of these procedures used saline implants and 85% used silicone implants. The majority of these women who underwent cosmetic breast augmentation...

Patients presenting for head and neck free flap surgery and breast reconstructive surgery are fragile cancer patients with a number of dangerous co-morbidities. Hence, pre-operative assessment and investigations play a role for the risk stratification. Although technical issues are prevailing factors, clinical characteristics also contribute...

Medical tourism, where patients travel to other countries for medical assistance and surgeries, has grown at a high rate in the past decade, especially for cosmetic surgery. Expensive Procedures, the high cost of medicines and long waiting lists at their own countries, emerging technologies, and...

When I was told to write out a plan for what I would do for the patient we were given a limited amount of time to write it in and I didn’t get to write too because I was trying to write what I thought...

This report will give an outline of suggestions on how to improve a patient’s oral and general health in the clinical setting. Additionally, any changes in behaviour that will benefit the patient will also be discussed, as well as the methods of communication that are...

It is a common occurrence that in health care, people’s stories of illness are often neglected to focus on the presenting complaint. By doing this, clinicians provide purely biomedical care instead of holistic care. By engaging with a patient’s narrative, the clinician can simultaneously gather...

Edentulism is defined as ‘the state of being edentulous; without natural teeth’. The consequences of tooth loss have been described in multidimensional views. Despite edentulism not being a life-threatening condition, it is a debilitating and irreversible condition and is described as the ‘final marker of...

In practice, the patient (independently or with the help of a lawyer) quite successfully realizes his right to receive money for moral damage, using formal errors of the medical organization. The court, when making a decision on the validity of the patient’s claim of moral...

Managerial human capital depicts the skills and knowledge repertoire of a focal E.F.SME’s top management team (i.e., long-serving family CEOs, together with their non-family senior functional-level managers), as shaped by their educational, personal, and professional experiences. Both family and non-family management perspectives are incorporated to...

“40% of health care services are potentially shoppable by consumers”. The rapid growth in Healthcare and Medical Insurance Services has empowered today’s patients to actively participate in managing their health care. They have freedom to schedule their care, compare multiple providers on cost and conveniences...

Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old former schoolteacher and mother of three, was refused the right to die by a French court last week. Ms Sebire suffered from a disfiguring and incurable facial tumour which caused her to lose the sense of smell, taste and finally her...

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...