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    Medical Law and Ethics

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    November 28th‚ 2010 1. Explain patient-physician contract A physician has the right‚ after forming a contract or agreeing to accept a patient under his or her care‚ to make reasonable limitation on the contractual relationship. The physician is under no legal obligation to treat patients who may wish to exceed those limitations. Under the patient-physician contract‚ both parties have certain rights and responsibilities. 2. Patient right and responsibilities Patients have the right to choose a physician;

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    Medical Marijuana A debatable topic in the United States has been the talk of making Marijuana legal for medicinal purposes. Included in the legalization of marijuana contains the right to sell‚ grow‚ use or buy marijuana. The origin of marijuana‚ cannabus satiba‚ came from Eastern Europe‚ India and Iran. Marijuana is the dried blossom of cannabis sativa and cannabis indica plants‚ leafy annual plants with parts that are used for as herbs‚ animal food‚ medicine and as

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    Medical Marijuana

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    aching in pain and to top it off unable to see. She had been suffering from a disability named Cerebral Palsy (CP) as well as beeping legally blind since birth. Sadly‚ for her disability‚ there is no cure‚ just harsh painkillers prescribed to cope with the pain. To make it even worse‚ in the state she lives in‚ Rhode Island‚ the natural medicine she needs is illegal for purchase. All of the country‚ thousands of people are suffering from life threatening diseases and unable to legal obtain their miracle

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    Medical Abstract

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    REMEDIOS TRINIDAD ROMUALDEZ HOSPITAL CALANIPAWAN ROAD‚ TACLOBAN CITY June 23‚ 2012 MEDICAL ABSTRACT A case of Martinez‚ Socorro P.‚ 70 years old‚ female‚ married‚ Filipino‚ Roman Catholic‚ a resident of Brgy. 96 Calanipawan‚ Tacloban City‚ was admitted at RTRH for the second time on June 15‚ 2012 around 6:20 am with a chief complaint of difficulty of breathing. Patient’s condition started 5 days prior to admission‚ when she had sudden onset of fever. She took Alaxan 500 mg tab once. There

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    Electronic Medical Records

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    alone does not improve the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care. Momentum for health information technology (HIT) grew when‚ in 2004‚ President George W. Bush set a goal for the creation of an electronic health record for every American by 2014. Health care leaders are working to understand various HIT options; ways of ensuring the privacy and security of patient information to comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA); and the importance of sharing patient information

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    Medical Student

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    Professionals Adrian Cook Gopalakrishnan Netuveli and Aziz Sheikh “The authors are to be congratulated for providing non-experts with such a clear introduction to statistics.” From the Foreword by Professor Philip Hannaford‚ University of Aberdeen Comments on Basic Skills in Statistics: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals from readers ‘This publication is a fantastic resource for any health professional with an interest in research and goes a long way to demystifying the world of statistics. It

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    Medical Billing

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    Medical Field Medical field is one of the biggest fields. When I mention the word medical‚ the first thing come up to your mind are doctors or nurses. Some people that never work in a medical office‚ they don’t know there are much more position in medical file you could work at‚ like medical assistant‚ technician medical coder or biller. Someone like me‚ don’t like to deal with patient. Medical biller and coder is a good opportunity for me to work at. But what are medical biller and coder? Job

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    Medical Abbreviations

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    Patient safety is a common goal in every healthcare institution. One of the major issues in a patient safety is an error that can be caused by an abbreviations. The most common is medication errors. One of the most common but preventable causes of medication errors is the use of ambiguous medical notations. Some abbreviations‚ symbols‚ and dose designations are frequently misinterpreted and lead to mistakes that result in patient harm. They can also delay the start of therapy and waste time spent

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    Do what?

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    Name: Date: Assignment 1 – Research Assignment: DUE ON week 7_______________________ Choose ONE of the following topics for your assignment: 1. Select an advertisement for a quit smoking program‚ weight loss or sports nutrition supplement and research the scientific validity behind the program or product. Your report must include: A description of differences between primary and secondary resources An explanation of how secondary resources usually contain bias and how these

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    The Patient with Heart Failuure 74-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital with heart failure. She had been growing progressively weaker and had ankle edema‚ dyspnea on exertion‚ and three-pillow orthopnea. On admission‚ she is severely dyspneic and can answer questions only with one-word phrases. She is diaphoretic‚ with a heart rate of 132 beats/min‚ and blood pressure 98/70 mm Hg. She is extremely anxious. 1. Because this patient cannot breathe or talk easily‚ prioritize the immediate nursing

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