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    Thirteen year olds should be out with friends‚ fretting over who you’re going to the mall with‚ what color nail polish you plan on using‚ and who you are going to sit by at lunch tomorrow. Not how do I grow up and become an aunt in 9 months. I was not the 13 year old who could worry about her nails‚ friends‚ and lunch anymore. I was the 13 year old who had to face the harsh reality of growing up and deal with society. The phrase‚ "Your sister is pregnant"‚ played over and over again in my head‚ as

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    Healing Hospital

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    Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the

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    ahead? It’s question which elder persons usually ask themselves day by day every morning . It’s easy to understand why they have complicated feeling like this . In “Old before her time” ‚ Katherine Barrett discusses how the senior citizens are treated in American culture. One of seven lessons she gave us ‚ Lesson six “ you never grow old emotionally”‚ is the most significant lesson because of their psychological emotion ‚ sympathetic and respectability. First of all‚ psychological emotion plays

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    The Laboratory Diagnosis and management of Diabetic Coma Diabetes is any disorder of the metabolism which causes excessive thirst and the production of large volumes of urine. A coma is a state of unrousable unconsciousness. (Martin (2002)) There are two types of diabetes: Diabetes Insipidus (DI) is a rare metabolic disorder‚ the symptoms of which are the production of large quantities of dilute urine and an increased thirst. It is caused by a deficiency of the pituitary hormone Anti-diuretic

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    Healing the Brain

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    The first person I want to thank is my wife and frequent coauthor‚ Patricia Potter-Efron. It was Pat who gently but persistently encouraged me to write a book on the angry brain. Indeed‚ she suggested I do so about five years ago. It took three of those years for her to convince me it was something that should be done and that I could do it. Louis Cozolino‚ PhD‚ has been my mentor and colleague throughout the process. He has reviewed every chapter and helped me avoid writing about possible brain

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    Overview Diabetic hyperosmolar syndrome is serious complication that is sometimes experienced by diabetic patients‚ most commonly those with type 2 diabetes. It occurs when the body consistently produces dangerously high blood sugar levels. As a result‚ the body attempts to flush out the excess blood sugar through increased urination. If it is not treated‚ it can become life threatening or even fatal. While the condition often develops in response to an infection or illness‚ it can also be caused

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    Case Study wound Abscess

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    ward of Mary Johnston Hospital‚ there were 7 patients admitted. Of those 7 patients‚ four were admitted due to diabetic complications. According to the International Diabetes Federation‚ the Philippines is one of the world’s emerging diabetes hotspots – ranked at 15 – which is home to more than 4 million people diagnosed with this disease. In 2014‚ there were 571‚000 deaths related to non-communicable diseases‚ including diabetes [WHO 2015]. And of those deaths‚ 6% of those deaths (between the ages

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    16 years Old Killer” video‚ it was about a 16 years old‚ Cyntoia Brown who had committed first degree murder. During the time‚ 16 years old Cyntoia was working as a prostitute for the man she was living with for awhile. A man requested her services and demand that it should be done at his house despite Cynthia disapproval. The murder took places in his room when Cyntoia took out a gun and shot him in his bed with his back against her. In her defence she told that she was being fearful for her life

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    Faith Healing

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    Introduction: Faith healing is thoroughly based on what is believed religiously by a certain individual‚ the patient and what level of faith they have. Faith is an action word‚ it means doing or believing in the impossible. Such as‚ moving mountains‚ saving a persons life‚ or believing in miracles. James writes in the Bible‚ “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead‚ so also faith apart from works is dead.” (1) Here what James is stating is‚ if one has faith but doesn’t do things to prove

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    Healing Hospitals

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    Date The existence of healing hospitals is not a new ideology. “Historically‚ hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders” (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2014). Hospitals of yesteryear were built on the premise of healing and fulfilled several of the requirements of institutions established for healing. As early as 4000 B. C. many religions identified and associated some of their deities with healing powers. However‚ the modern concept of hospitals dates

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