Ma. Regina R. March 9‚ 2011 SOCTEC NO2 What is the purpose of medical diagnosis? Are outcomes of diagnosis always accurate/objective? If not‚ what are the possible limitations of diagnosis as a form of knowledge production? Basically‚ the purpose of medical diagnosis is to determine the illness of the patient. It is based on the clinician’s judgment on what is the patient’s condition. A diagnosis is only formed when enough data are required. There are many types of data. There is
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of external stimuli” (p. 430). What is Dual Diagnosis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness The National Alliance on Mental Illness http://www.nami.or/content/contentgroups/ retrieved 7 June 2013‚ suggests that individuals that can struggle with both‚ serious mental illness and substance abuse‚ face problems of enormous proportions because substance abuse tends to complicate nearly all aspects of care for the individual with mental illness. Diagnosis becomes difficult as it takes time to unravel
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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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Bobcats Beautiful Bobcats are fierce cats that live in mountains‚ forest or jungles‚ deserts‚ swamps‚ and prairie in greatly of North America. Bobcats are normally nocturnal (mostly energetic at night). But bobcats have peaks of action at dawn and sunset. Bobcats use the daytime in their den (a cave‚ empty log otherwise rock crevice). Bobcats are admirable mountaineers and swimmers. Bobcats are preyed upon by wolves‚ people‚ cougars‚ coyotes‚ and owls. Bobcats have a life period of 10-15 years
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THE WALRUS • MARCH 2OII lltSIHilliiKHIIIIIIIIIillHIIIiniltli BOOKS Crímínou8 Minds A new wave ofcrime writers is exploring Canada’s darken corners BY RICHARD POPLAK ILLUSTRATION BY JACK DYLAN BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: and beaver-shaped shortbread. Rush espies the young Rosalind Canon‚ CanLit Wunderkind of the moment. She is flush with a Dickie nom‚ a considerable book advance‚ and the adulation of the culturocracy. Why not me? whines Rush‚ borrowing the italics Stephen King made
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Be Clever‚ Not Beautiful If you can be 20 pounds (about 9 kg) slimmer or get 20 points higher on your IQ test score‚ which would you choose? Intelligence or appearance? Intelligence‚ which humans distinguish themselves from other species‚ refers to the measurement of how wise a human is in respond to difficulties‚ while appearance‚ whose importance has recently escalated‚ refers to how good-looking an individual is. We should make people understand that intelligence instead of appearance can truly
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Beautiful Boy In the book Beautiful Boy David Sheff the father describes his and his family’s experience dealing with his son Nic who is addicted to the drug crystal meth. In telling his story David takes us down memory lane to the beginning of his life with his first wife who gives birth to his son Nic. In this book I think that David Sheff lays down a great foundation into the life of his son Nic. He tells us how brilliant Nic is‚ that Nic has a great imagination and that all of his teachers
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Diagnosis of Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is a troubled 16 year-old teen who has just been expelled from his fourth school. He has a younger sister whom he deeply cares for‚ and a deceased younger brother. Also‚ Holden appears to isolate himself and has few social relationships with others. Over the past few days‚ Holden has been enraged by his roommates‚ avoided conflict with confronting his parents‚ been beaten up‚ contemplated suicide‚ and abused himself physically by smoking‚ drinking
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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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becomes too much to bear. As soon as a person recognizes that they are depressed‚ beyond what may be defined as ordinary sadness‚ they should seek medical advice from a doctor‚ who may refer them to a mental health professional. An accurate diagnosis for depression can sometimes be difficult because there is no way to test for depression‚ such as in a laboratory‚ other than from what is
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