specifically hired to perform. For example‚ if you are hired as a back office Medical Assistant‚ you will generally be expected to be able to perform front office Medical Assistant duties such as scheduling patients‚ calling and confirming appointments‚ copying files‚ faxing reports‚ referrals‚ and prescriptions. Basically‚ within the scope of your profession‚ it is an enormous asset to be able to perform many functions within a medical facility‚ especially a smaller one. People get sick‚ take vacations
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basic need for a self sustaining income‚ is the opportunity to make differences in peoples lives. With the demand for healthcare professionals and alternative medicines on the rise‚ so is the need for adequately educated trained personnel. Diagnostic Medical Sonography is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to radiologic procedures such as x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Accounting for approximately 50‚300 jobs in the United States in 2008‚ compared to the 214‚000 jobs held by
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aspects of health and why medical anthropologists emphasize the need for local knowledge of culture to critically tackle human health. Medical anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It aims to understand the factors that influences health including biological and socio-cultural factors. The job of medical anthropologist is to determine the cultural aspects of diagnosis and disease treatment. In essence‚ there are three major arguments shared by medical anthropologists include that
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Medical resident doctors endure a great amount of stress during their training. The medical residency generally involves three to five years’ additional training beyond medical school for physicians to gain additional knowledge within their specialization. The learning environment in which a resident physician works is generally fraught with high levels of stress as he fine tunes those skills that will make him a competent attending physician upon completion. This often involves erratic hours
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I am for medical marijuana being legalized because it helps with the side effects of Chemotherapy‚ it is safer than pharmaceuticals‚ and most of all‚ because legalization means government control. The benefits far outweigh the risks. My first reason that medical marijuana should be legal in all states is because it helps with the side effects of chemotherapy. There is a chemical in Cannabis (cannabis is medical marijuana with a different name)‚ that helps with the side effects of chemo and does
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CHAPTER .1 Introduction Medical tourism in India After the silicon rush India is now considered as the golden spot for treating patients mostly from the developed countries and Far East for ailments and procedures of relatively high cost and complexity. India is also aggressively promoting medical tourism in the current years -and slowly now it is moving into a new area of "medical outsourcing‚" where subcontractors provide services to the overburdened medical care systems in western countries
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Greek and “is one of the oldest binding documents in history” (Tyson‚ 2001). "The Oath of Hippocrates‚" holds the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics (1996 edition)‚ "has remained in Western civilization as an expression of ideal conduct for the physician." “98% of American and nearly 50% of British medical students swear some kind of oath‚ either on entry to medical school or at graduation” (Sritharan et al.‚ 2001). These principals are instilled early on although the “Oaths are neither
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Whether or not medical marijuana should be legalized is a bigger controversy than it should be these days. There are advantages and disadvantages to medical marijuana being legalized‚ as there are pros and cons to any and everything in this world‚ but first I just want to add that in 1972‚ the US Congress placed marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because they considered it to have "no accepted medical use." Since then‚ 20 of 50 US states and DC have legalized the medical use of marijuana
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Advantages of a Medical Abortion -It performed without any surgical instruments‚ which may harm the cervix lining and cause serious internal perforations and injuries. -It may be performed in the beginning of the pregnancy‚ before signs of pregnancy appear. -The most of the medical abortions can be done at home‚ it is not necessary to stay in clinic. -This abortion looks like a natural miscarriage‚ that’s why women find it less emotionally stressful. Disadvantages of a Medical Abortion -It
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it to have "no accepted medical use." (http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/) After this act only 17 states of the US have legalized the use of medical marijuana. In my opinion medicinal marijuana should be legal across the united states of America. It should be legal only for medicinal purposes‚ not for everyday use. In the 17 states that marijuana is legal has only shown positive results to the legalization. One of those states is California. SB 420 or better known as medical marijuana protection act
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