Getting the Diagnosis Wrong Liat Hill Adelphi University Danielle Ofri‚ M.D.‚ explains how differential and extensive diagnosis are and how easy it is to misdiagnose a patient. As she examines her patient with abdominal pain and prioritizes her diagnosis while trying to make sure she keeps in mind the serious conditions she can’t afford to miss. Danielle explains that diagnostic accuracy is very difficult to precisely achieve. It is estimated that doctors get
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1. What is the name of the movie you watched? For this assignment‚ I watched “Fatal Attraction.” 2. Describe the demographics of the character of “patient” that you are evaluating. Alex Forrest was the patient in this movie. She is a white female in her 40’s. She is single and works as an editor for a publishing company‚ however she is not shown working after the beginning of the movie. 3. Summarize the plot of the movie. As the movie begins‚ Dan and his wife‚ Beth‚ go to a company party
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Diagnosis The assigned clinical experienced was an opportunity to meet and interact with a patient that was scheduled to have a cesarean and to obtain a history. The Patient‚ T is a 27 year old female who is a Multipara and has a history of marijuana use‚ HPV‚ Abnormal Pap smear‚ CIN changes‚ and anxiety with depression. This patient is blood type A‚ RH and G Betta negative. She is also Rubella immune. The first baby was delivered via cesarean at 40 weeks‚ due to fetal distress and cord entanglement
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What a Diagnosis of Down Syndrome Means Today Down syndrome is a condition affecting many Americans and individuals across the world. It presents challenges socially‚ academically‚ and behaviorally. However‚ a diagnosis today is not nearly as detrimental to the person’s quality of life as it was decades ago. Strides have been made in Down syndrome awareness‚ education and overall acceptance. Screening is now available so that parents know in advance if they are going to have a child born with
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Should People Be Labeled With a Psychiatric Diagnosis? II. Thesis Statement Throughout this paper‚ issues will be discussed regarding the question of whether labels should be placed on the people who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. I believe that the current methods of classifying and identifying these individuals does not have the patients bests interests in mind‚ partly due to the negative stigmas that come hand in hand with the label. I find that aside from the benefits that
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The diagnosis method for ADHD is a subjectively answered scoring system where doctors present symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity to their patients. If the patients believe that they exhibit a sufficient amount of symptoms in daily life‚ an ADHD diagnosis takes place. As a result of the subjectivity of the testing‚ there are misdiagnoses‚ incorrect treatments given‚ and a glaring lack of education about medications used to alleviate the symptoms of this disorder. While doctors argue that
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themes that arise. First‚ I would like to highlight the most severe of said maladaptive behavior and attempt to diagnose Mr. Ripley using the most current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Fifth Edition (DSM-5) DIAGNOSIS: To start with I would like to address the obvious Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) that is listed as one of ten disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association‚ Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)
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Case Study Diagnosis PCN 445 December 01‚ 2013 George comes in for treatment. George is an upper middle aged man with support from his wife. George has been having problems for years but either was ashamed of them or did not know where to go. Many people self-diagnose or tell themselves that it is not as bad as they think it is. Or perhaps it will go away in time. Those days turn into months and then years and before you know it you have spent your whole life avoiding certain situations or people
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socio-scientific issue. The use of IVF and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is the process of identifying genetic defects within an embryo before implantation‚ PGD allows the embryos DNA to be studied for mutations and genetic diseases. Originally PGD was used on female embryos and was used to prevent pregnancy termination in pregnancies with high risks of a sex linked genetic disease. Process The IVF procedure consists of ovarian stimulation‚ egg retrieval
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The Main Treatment Options Oh‚ shit‚ Ramey‚" was the first thing I said when I walked in the door that morning. He’d been looking bad‚ but now one of his eyes was bugged out – probably twice the size of the other one. I’ve done a lot of reading about this since then. Usually it’s because the fish swims into something sharp‚ probably that ceramic decorative castle I had in there. Ramey’s fins had been disintegrating for a while; over a few months his velvety banner of a tail had succumbed to an
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