situation In 1992‚ over 30 million cases of blindness existed all over the world‚ with more than 90% in Asia and Africa. Of this‚ India had ~20mn cases of blindness with additional 2mn cases added every year‚ of which upto 80% were cataract related. With an infrastructure that could handle only 1.2 million cataract cases annually‚ the situation is expected to get worse. The rural areas of the country were particularly exposed as just one-third of the medical infrastructure was present where two-thirds
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One of the many options you have as a healthcare professional is choosing a medical specialty in which to practice. Whether you’re a nurse‚ a physician‚ or allied health professional‚ choosing a medical specialty will help focus your educational goals‚ job search efforts‚ and career choices. The sooner you identify your true passion in medicine‚ the more successful you may become‚ by working in a field you love. For example‚ is your passion working with kids‚ pregnant moms‚ cancer patients‚ or
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Medical Apartheid In the book‚ Medical Apartheid‚ Harriet A. Washington touches on some major soft points‚ that really made me think and I believe that if many other people read this they would be surprised as well‚ because when she goes into detail about the cruel treating of African Americans in the past‚ it is just shocking to find out what we didn’t know. Basically‚ Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. It begins
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1. How can eliminating abbreviations reduce errors? I think that eliminating medical abbreviations would reduce errors because many abbreviations are very similar and people get confused between them‚ however‚ if abbreviations were eliminated it would make it very difficult on medical professionals. They would have to write out very lengthy medical terms. According to Dr. Darryl S. Rich‚ “to minimize the potential for error and to maximize patient safety‚ prescribers need to avoid such specifically
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INTD Essay A medical tricorder is ideally a device that is able to scan the human body and deduce whether the person/patient is sick in anyway. These devices have appeared in many sci-fi TV shows and movies such as Star Trek as future technology that was impossible in the current time period. But fortunately‚ due to today’s rapid technological advances it is possible to create a device that comes close to the ones seen in Star Trek. Medical Tricorders in this generation is a rapidly growing
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Medical Devices For many patients‚ medical devices deliver valuable relief from critical‚ yet failing‚ anatomical mechanisms within their body. An implantable cardioverter – defibrillator (ICD) is one such device that‚ when implanted into the upper left torso‚ delivers high voltage jolts of electricity to patients who are at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias. Ultimately‚ they have the potential capacity to resynchronize one’s cardiac rhythm to the extent that imminent death may be averted. Although
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of living was‚ the average will always be higher than the cost of living in rural areas and lower than the cost of living in urban areas. The supply of medical treatment‚ that is the capacity of a hospital‚ is inelastic as well as the number of positions necessary to supply the treatment. The number of hospitals does not change. Medical treatment refers to both‚ pharmaceuticals and services‚ and there combination. Deduction: The cost of living can be taken as price index‚ indeed is directly
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that is good or bad‚ not the plant itself. I think that it is time we look past all that we have been told about the dangers of marijuana and see that it actually has legitimate medical uses. And I believe that if it was something developed by scientists instead of a Schedule 1 drug‚ it would already be legal for medical use. I would first like to start off with a little history of the use and regulation of marijuana. For thousands of years Marijuana has been used as herbal medication and for
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caller‚ angry patient‚ family member) (2) Emergency calls 7. Fundamental writing skills a. Sentence structure b. Grammar c. Punctuation I. A–F General A. Medical terminology 1. Word building and definitions a. Basic structure (1) Roots or stems (2) Prefixes (3) Suffixes (4) Abbreviations b. Surgical procedures c. Diagnostic procedures d. Medical specialties 2. Uses of terminology a. Spelling b. Selection and use (e.g.‚ data entry‚ reports‚ records‚ documents‚ patient education‚ correspondence‚ medicolegal
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20.07.2013 THE EFFECTS OF MEDICAL ADVANCES Everyone’s dream is to have a long life. Recently‚ it has become possible with the advancement in medicine. Many scientists are still doing research and experiments so that people live longer. In my view‚ medical advances should allow people to live with the people whom they like for a long time but it also disrupts the natural balance.
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