I. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank our beloved family for their support and understanding when we are doing this case. To our group mates who shared their ideas and knowledge‚ for the patience‚ for the understanding‚ encouragement and hard work that they had given through the entire process and helped bring out the best in us during our hard time on the hospital duty. We would like to express our gratitude on the management and staff ofUnciano Medical Center and to our Clinical Instructor
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1. Explain the terms social drugs and medicines. People take social drugs to help them relax or occasionally give themselves the feeling of having more energy (BBC 2013). Social drugs are also known as recreational or non medicinal drugs. These types of drugs are used for recreational purposes and without medical justification. There are two types of social drugs‚ illegal and socially acceptable drugs. Illegal social drugs include heroin‚ cocaine‚ cannabis and LSD. Examples of socially acceptable
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References: 1 Stewart M‚ et al. Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method. Thousand Oaks‚ California: Sage Publications; 1995. 2 Derbin K‚ Perkins A. Noncooperation. In: 20 Common Problems in Behavioral Health; DeGruy FV‚ Dickinson WP‚ Staton EW‚ eds.. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. 3 Grisso
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The academic study of medicine in the medieval world was based largely on the works of the ancient Greeks‚ including Hippocrates‚ Aristotle‚ and Galen. A Byzantine physician was Alexander of Tralles‚ whose medical books were used throughout Europe in the following centuries. Institutional medicine was unknown in Europe during the early Middle Ages. Within the Byzantine state‚ however‚ hospitals-where the sick and injured could receive care-were established as parts of monastic communities. The
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STANDARDIZATION OF HERBAL MEDICINES/PRODUCTS: PREAMBLE: Herbal medicine is the most primitive traditional approach to the treatment of diseases and ailments. It is called herbal medicine because it involves the use of plants or plant parts. There is no doubt that herbal medicines provided the first basis for therapeutics before the development or advent of orthodox medicine. Despite the fact that‚ over the years‚ chemists have synthesized a large number of chemical substances‚ many of which have
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Case for Seminars 2 and 3: Stephen is a board director of StarAlphaMedicines‚ a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in the UK. The company’s Research & Development department are working on a novel breast cancer drug. The drug could provide breakthrough treatment for millions of women in the company’s core markets in Europe and the US‚ and is likely to be a source of high revenue for StarAlphaMedicines‚ which has recently seen a fall in profits and a resulting drop in share price
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Nuclear Medicine Technologist Nuclear Medicine Technologist Sharda` Short Columbus State University Abstract In this paper I will explain and describe how nuclear medicine uniquely provides information about both the structure and function of virtually every major organ system within the body. It is this ability to characterize and quantify physiologic function which separates nuclear medicine from other
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Choosing to study medicine is not a decision I have taken lightly. Some life experiences had made me look into medicine as a lifestyle. One of them was to be witness of the progression of a disease that affected one of my family members. Those memories and discovering science at particular young age made me fascinated with this career. For all the years that I’ve been studying I can conclude that prevention has been the most important factor for the health and well being of patients. I was born
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the field of medicine. The knowledge of the indigenous communities on medicine is popularly known by the nomenclature “Traditional Medicine”. The focus of inquiry in this paper is the extent to which the existing legal regime especially the intellectual property paradigm attempts to protect and preserve the interest of the indigenous peoples over their knowledge. The paper analyses whether indigenous medicine fits itself into the existing definition given by WHO on traditional medicine and proceeds
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Complementary and Alternative Medicines Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are medicines that are not considered conventional medicine. Conventional Medicine is also known as Western Medicine and is often practice by medical professional like medical doctors‚ nurses and therapist. The boundaries between CAM and conventional medicine are not fixed‚ and because CAM has recently become more accepted‚ the treatment combination of CAM and conventional medicine increased and the boundaries between
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