“The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of care that puts patients at the forefront of care by building better relationships between people and their clinical care teams” (Bitton‚ 2010). This patient care model has received considerable attention as a potential way to improve quality care. Ongoing research on PCMH demonstrates that it has the capacity to change care by how it has improved quality‚ the patient experience and staff satisfaction‚ while reducing health care costs (Jackson
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The Patient Safety Movement Florida Institute of Technology According to patientsafetymovement.org (2013)‚ over 200‚000 patients die each year due to preventable causes. This is more than the number of deaths from lung‚ breast and prostate cancer combined. With such a high number of patients at risk of preventable death‚ the idea of patient safety moved to the forefront of medical discussions in the early 1990’s with the release of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human. The
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Change for Providing Safe Patient Care”‚ on page 382 through 383‚ is about a Department of Medicine (DoM) in an urban academic medical center where in the past 2 years there has been cases where patients had needlessly suffered serious harm. Even though the cases were far and in betweeen‚ and most of the employees were comfortable with the status quo however‚ “the chairperson’s view of patient care safety meant that there was no place for such incidents.” Incidentally‚ the patient safety incidences occurred
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In Hobbes Leviathan‚ one might recognize the complete controversy between he‚ and Socrates. Socrates‚ was a man with little answers; he made you question things you did not know‚ and things you thought you knew. However‚ Hobbes‚ gives you immense immediate answers‚ and even claims that philosophers are wrong (page 57). Hobbes also claims that men has “restless desire of power after power” (page 58); he claims this explains how and why people act in a certain manner. Reflecting on our modern society
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Socrates was put on trial because he was charged with crimes. The first was “corrupting the youth.” (43) The second was “refusing to acknowledge the gods acknowledged by the city.” (43) The third count was “introducing new divinities.” (43) The reason Socrates was put on trial was because he was going around challenging men about their knowledge and wisdom. He was told by an Oracle that he was the wisest man who lived‚ but he was skeptical about it‚ so he went and tested out that theory. He went
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Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner Alice Ann Munro once said‚ “Time is interesting; seeing the past and present‚ and how the circumstances change people.” The concept of changing circumstances is commonly seen within literary pieces and characters. In Sophocles’ tragedies Oedipus the King and Antigone‚ the character Creon drastically changes as his leadership role in Thebes increases. In Oedipus the King‚ Creon is second in command of Thebes‚ which allows him to be sensible and
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Socrates’ exchange with Meno starts as Meno asks whether temperance can be taught. Meno proposes that it might be an aftereffect of practice or an innate characteristic. Socrates answers by reminding Meno that Meno’s own particular comrades‚ the Thessalians‚ have as of late picked up a notoriety for shrewdness‚ because of the rising acclaim of Gorgias (a Sophist educator). Gorgias‚ Socrates says‚ has taught individuals "to give an intense and terrific response to any inquiry you might be asked‚ as
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I found Professor Samons to be a really engaging lecturer and I really enjoyed listening to what he had to say about Plato’s critique on democracy. Professor Samons begins his lecture by asking the question: why do Americans love and aggrandize democracy so much‚ but Plato criticizes it? This was the same question I had throughout Book Eight. It seems that our entire goal as a country is to spread democracy to the rest of the world and to find ways to make ourselves more democratic than we already
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Phaedrus and Gorgias Response Paper Looking at both Plato’s Gorgias and Plato’s Phaedrus‚ the differences are easily noticed in comparison to one another. Gorgias was a text coming from Plato when he was a younger man‚ and not as experienced‚ living in a city of war‚ these elements add a hint of aggressiveness to the reading. Whereas Phaedrus was written when Plato was an older man‚ and the city was in a time of peace‚ and the setting had taken place in the wilderness‚ these facets gave the text
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not always result in injury to the patient. Gross negligence is a more serious form of negligence that can be describes as simply carelessness. Regular negligence is seen as a person or company falling below an expected standard of care‚ gross negligence is seen as a complete failure to show care or willful disregard for safety and human life. Medical negligence becomes medical malpractice when the doctor’s negligent treatment causes undue injury to the patient‚ makes the patient’s condition worse
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