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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Medical Reports Chapter 3- PATIENT NAME- Smith‚ Robin HOSPITAL NUMBER-257-439-7154 DATE OF ADMISSION- September 25‚ 2010 History Of Present Illness- The patient is a 61 year old female. The patient is complaining that they feel weak‚ their urine is dark‚ nausea‚ and they have Jaundice. Past Medical History- Mrs. Smith has suffered from seizures since she was 18 years old. She has been taking Dilantin to help keep the seizures under control. No other past medical history. Physical
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MEDICAL SCENARIO FOR PARTS 1 & 2 FINAL PROJECT Assignment Reading: 1. AMBULATORY CARE FACE SHEET Admit Date: 7/8/20XX @ 20:22 Discharge Date/Time: 7/9/20XX @ 10:10 Sex: M Age: 47 Disposition: Home Admitting Diagnosis: Possible torn meniscus of the left knee. Discharge Diagnosis: Left Knee meniscectomy. Procedures: Laparoscopic Surgery to the Left Knee. CONSULTATION Date of Consultation: 7/8/20XX This is a 47-year-old male who was in his usual state of health until today entered
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White Americans. This can be a problem in the medical field when physicians are misattributing diseases with a race. When these stereotypes are brought to play‚ it can lead to erroneous attitudes toward the social group and can influence inaccurate beliefs and judgments. In a study by Moskowitz‚ Stone‚ & Childs (2012)‚ they aimed to examine whether implicit stereotyping (unconscious attributions to a particular social group) exists among medical doctors. The study was broken up into two different
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1. Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT) a. Medical teams assembled to assess‚ triage‚ and provide medical supportive care for patients with acute primary care needs while updating the patient’s electronic health record into the system to ensure medical records will be retrieved at the final destination of the patient. Their duties are to stabilize life during emergency events for up to 72 hours without external assistance and determine the appropriate destination for patients. The teams consist
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Phantom Medical C (VC Fund): Your VC fund has recently solicited Phantom Medical (PMC) to see whether you could strike a deal for their $1.5 million in Series A capital raise (1st round capital raise). Currently the management team owns 100% of the company and there are no outside investors. Your fund in particular would provide great synergies with PMC‚ so PMC would likely embrace a deal. PMC’s management team is relatively inexperienced and unfocused‚ and you may look to replace some of
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Regional Medical Center and you are currently faced with a shortage of nurses. Your firm currently has plans to expand the nursing staff by 11%. In addition‚ the annual turnover of the current 400 person nursing staff is 36%. A. Describe how you would creatively recruit to fill your nursing position needs in this marketplace where there is a current undersupply of nurses. I would seek to form partnerships with colleges and universities that have nursing programs. Westcoast Regional Medical Center
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA Recently the dispute over the use of marijuana for medical purposes has grown a great deal. Marijuana is a very beneficial drug and could improve the lives of many very ill people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical use in the United States. This paper is based on the studies conducted by the IOM (Institute of Medicine) and will help to display the actual benefits of marijuana (Mack and Joy 5‚ 8). One of marijuana greatest benefits is its ability to increase the overall
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(Lynching Charlie Lynch‚ Rick Ray) I believe medical marijuana should be a legally taxed substance in the United States. In a world that has hated marijuana since it was outlawed in 1937‚ the times are finally starting to change. (A NormL Life‚ Rod Pitman) Cannabis is still federally illegal and is considered a schedule 1 drug by the federal government. (A NormL Life‚ Rod Pitman) This means that marijuana has a high potential for dependency and has no accepted medical use. This means it is in the same category
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East Mercy Medical Center Analysis University of Phoenix QNT 571 February 24‚ 3014 Professor Victor Mojica East Mercy Medical Center Analysis The East Mercy Medical Center recently hired a new assistant administrator‚ given the name Dorothy Jacobs. One of her first tasks is to evaluate ways to improve the costs of their hospital management related to the patient capacity in three main hospital wards: Obstetrics‚ Surgery and Pediatrics. The hospital board is considering
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