On December 31‚ 2012 I underwent weight loss surgery and had a Lap-Band placed. Now‚ if one thing I have come to realize in life is that people are going to judge you no matter how hard you try and convince them not too. Instead of wasting that time and energy on someone else‚ I put it back into myself. This choice was by no means an easy choice‚ and some might even say it is the easy way out but until you have walked a mile in my shoes…. What you might not realize is that any kind of weight
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much or how little should physicians care for their patients without becoming attached or appearing aloof? Is it a physician’s responsibility to provide comfort in the midst of dying or should teamwork with a counselor or chaplain be sufficient? These are questions I don’t have the answers to‚ but I am hopeful that throughout the duration of this course I may gain a better understanding of how to answer these questions for myself. The third patient Dr. Ylitalo and I visited was a 75 year old man who
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Decision Making January 20th 2011 How Ethics Affects Nursing Practice In the nursing profession we have a respect for our patients but obtaining trust and maintaining the confidentiality of the patient’s information has been established from years ago starting with the Oath of Hippocratic. The patient’s confidentiality includes protecting any information the patient divulges to medical personal‚ and not disclosing or sharing the information to others. If trust is betrayed‚ the patient’s would
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WHAT IS TIME AND WHAT CAUSES TIME? Australian writer and physicist Paul Davis has called time Einstein’s unfinished revolution. Einstein was first to introduce the concept of slowing of time with motion and in gravity. He was also a proponent of block universe view of time in which past present and future all coexist together laid out as a dimension on a time line. The Greek philosopher Aristotle had speculated that time may be related to motion; he however
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Does Time have a beginning or an end? In ancient Greece‚ Plato and Aristotle agreed that the past is eternal. Aristotle claimed that time had no beginning because‚ for any time‚ we always can imagine an earlier time. Imagine‚ the earliest past you have and by extension imagine all the people in history doing this. Be it as it may before mankind even. Isaac Newton believed future time is infinite and that‚ although God created the material world some finite time ago‚ there was an infinite period
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on the importance of being on time at your place of duty. I thought about what I could write about and this is what I came up with. It made me think back to one of my seven army values; Duty. What is my duty? It is my duty to show up at my station of assignment on time if not even a little early. Reasons for this would be that the NCO would know that all personnel are present and ready for the day. I know that my inability to be at the right place‚ at the right time‚ in the right uniform‚ and with
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A Patients Bill Of Rights 1. The patient has the right to considerate care. I do agree with this right‚ because every patient wants to feel safe. No patient deserves to be neglected when going into a healthcare facility. Negligence is often an intentional action that occurs when a physician performs or fails to perform an action towards a patient is. Every patient is entitled to a physician that will be considerate and respectful to them. If a patient is neglected by a physician a law suit would
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Taking a patient profile face-to-face was beneficial to me because I could ask her how she was taking the medication and what other medication she was on. It also enabled me to understand the patient’s condition better and if there was anything that could be done to improve medication adherence. Talking to the patient allowed me to understand how the patient feels about her medication and how it fits into her lifestyle. It is important to understand this‚ as it would highlight if she is experiencing
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Patient adherence plays a huge role in the health outcome/goal. There are many social and economical factors that affect adherence and there can be intentional or nonintentional nonadherence. I think that the information-motivation-strategy model can be successful it carried out correctly and to it’s fullest extent. Informing the patient about the benefits and uses of taking the medication is key to increase patient adherence. As a patient‚ I would not take a medication if I didn’t know the actual
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Patients can be harmed from health care‚ resulting in permanent injury‚ increased lengths of stay in hospital and even death. Over the past 15 years‚ adverse events occur not because people working in medical professions intentionally hurt patients‚ but rather due to the complexity of health-care systems‚ where treatment and care depend on many factors‚ in addition to the competence of health-care providers. When so many and varied types of health-care providers‚ such as dentists‚ dieticians‚ doctors
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