As I walked down the hallway‚ it seemed endless. I could not feel my feet hitting the ground‚ nor notice anyone around me. I just walked. The smell of the place was intoxicating. It reminded me of insulin or disinfectant spray. I entered her room; it was dark. The sound of beeping machines echoed in my ears. I walked to her bed. She was sleeping soundly. Her body was frail and looked as if she was bone covered with skin. She was weak and tired. The cancer had been eating away at her‚ slowly
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THC is a substance that has been around in civilizations around the world for many‚ many years. The discovery of THC occurred after discovering that morphine attached to receptors in the brain which caused an individual to feel high‚ chemists in the 40’s and 50’s found that there were specific receptors for THC in the brain and how there is a natural chemical in our body that is similar to THC. It wasn’t until 1963 that two scientists named Mechoulam and Yehiel Gaoni isolated‚ and first synthesized
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Legalizing Medical Marijuana Introduction: I. Attention Getter: Chemotherapy is poison. Many prescription drugs have harmful side effects and interactions. A: chemo kills millions of cells - good and bad – the body tries to expel the poison – nausea B: Lortab‚ Percoset‚ Oxycontin‚ Morphene – highly addictive‚ cause ulcers‚ nausea – overdose is fatal C: Many
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medical needs. Medicinal marijuana is the same as regular marijuana‚ except it is distributed by dispensaries in the states that allow medicinal marijuana to be legal. Some people who use medicinal marijuana are cancer patients who went through chemotherapy because the medicinal marijuana helps them with pain‚ nausea and stimulates hunger. People who also have aids use medicinal marijuana because it helps with nausea. Besides for aids and cancer patients‚ medicinal marijuana helps people who have
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advanced stage gallbladder cancer‚ which the doctors believed was of an aggressive type. The treatment plan was a combination of surgery to remove the gallbladder and to evaluate how much metastasis has occurred‚ to be followed with several rounds of chemotherapy. Patient currently has an NG tube inserted‚ and connected to wall suction‚ a triple lumen PICC has been inserted to be able
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Justice is treating everyone equally no matter age race of gender. Meaning if a person with cancer wants to receive chemotherapy treatment but does not work and has no means to pay they should still receive the chemotherapy treatments. Non-maleficence is to avoid hurting a patient either it is intentional or intentional. For example a mother just gave birth to a baby who was detoxing from illegal drugs and was going home
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cannabis would save the US 13.7 million dollars‚ this is not counting the benefits that would be reaped from taxing the product. Medicinal marijuana has many proven medical benefits. It relieves pain‚ kills brain cancer cells‚ revives appetite in chemotherapy patients‚ and stops the spread of breast cancer throughout the body. I only listed a small amount of the proven medicinal uses in cannabis published by many scientific and medical studies. Many argue that medical marijuana also has negative connotations
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Introduction Marijuana‚ the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States‚ is taken from the leaves and flowering tops of the Cannabis Sativa plant. It also comes in a more concentrated‚ resinous form‚ called hashish‚ and as a sticky black liquid called hash oil. Marijuana in the Philippines is also called Aunt Mary‚ Bud‚ Dope‚ Grass‚ Hash‚ Herb‚ Kush‚ Mary Jane‚ Pot‚ Smoke‚ Weed‚ and many more. Last February 17‚ the Philippines’ Health Secretary‚ Enrique Ona‚ told reporters that the Department
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cancer? After chemotherapy and radiation ravage the body‚ the right diet becomes a part of that patients rebuilding of their health. The right diet can become a long-term plan in the preventing of future occurrences in cancer. What is the right diet? Sally Kirk 2013 Can Diet Play a Role in Cancer? 19050-646430 Can Diet Play A Role in Cancer? Diet is playing an important role in the recovery process. The person is left weak‚ hurting and immune compromised after chemotherapy and radiation;
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Today we use several ways to fight off cancer like Radiation therapy‚ Kimmo therapy‚ or surgery. These are effective ways to fight off cancer‚ but the barrier that comes into play is that some of these affect the body in a negative way and it doesn’t Keep cancer from coming back. I bet you’re wondering what immunotherapy is? How long has it been around? Immunotherapy is the changing of the immune system to find and eliminate foreign cancer cells. There have been early attempts to try and change the
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