About Medical Marijuana Marijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational‚ as well as medicinal until 1937. Today‚ only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML is working to restore marijuana’s availability as medicine. Medicinal Value Marijuana‚ in its natural form‚ is one of the safest therapeutically
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The future of medical transcription The future of medical transcription Many training for the field of medical transcription are in fear of choosing a career that may no longer hold value in the healthcare industry. Due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act‚ the United States health care system is making an industry-wide movement towards an electronic environment for health information management (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
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Should doctors be able to refuse demands for "futile" treatment? "Futile" treatment is when there is no medical benefit from the treatment they are receiving‚ and that there will be no improvement if they are in a permanent vegetative state. Although the concept of medical futility dates back in the Ancient Greek days with physician Hippocrates‚ it has only recently (in the past 40 years) become a controversial topic. The issue of medical futility is important because it deals with many issues such
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Was the Medical Renaissance an important period in medical history? The renaissance period was the rebirth of medical research after the middle lack of the development during the middle ages. This was an important period because of new discoveries about anatomy. These new breakthroughs began with Andreas Vesalius challenging the great Roman doctor‚ Galen’s ideas towards the human body. Two major mistakes that Vesalius found in Galen’s work were that the human jaw had one bone‚ whereas Galen wrote
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this discourse. One of the strengths of working within this model‚ it allows you to work within a multidisciplinary team with psychiatrists‚ doctors‚ nurses‚ and other medical staff and this opens up a whole new perspective for social workers. We get to see the medical side of things and how that affects the person. When a medical professional see’s a patient they see the direct problem of that patient and there disease. Using this model and all of our social work skills and approaches will give
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Bartling v. Superior Johnny Valentine Rasmussen College Author Note This assignment is being submitted on August 19‚ 2012‚ for Carol Taylor’s M230 Medical Law and Ethics course. In 1990‚ Dr. Jack Kevorkian became infamous for assisting individuals who were terminally ill with physician-assisted suicide. Many people frown upon this and even protest saying it’s inhumane. If a family member were on life support and only living because of the tubes connected to their body‚ what would you do
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After 1937‚ with the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act and subsequent federal and state legislation‚ it became virtually impossible for physicians to obtain or prescribe marihuana preparations for their patients. Thus‚ the medical profession was denied access to a versatile pharmaceutical tool with a history of therapeutic utility going back thousands of years". In a 1970 article‚ "Pot Facing Stringent Scientific Examination ‚"
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good life (pg. 402). When a patient exercises self-determination‚ the patient is exercising their right to take responsibility for their lives. This gives people a chance to make their own decisions about their lives that would go along with their values. The other ethic value Brock talks about is individual well-being. This value talks about how the patient may think that life is no longer considered a benefit for themselves and that they have now become a burden (pg. 402). When the patient exercises
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Karen Ann Quinlan experienced a variety of medical issues after entering into a ten-year coma from consuming a mixture of alcohol and tranquilizers. Quinlan’s parents filed a lawsuit regarding the definition of life and the right for an individual to die in 1976 ("FOCUS OF ’76 RIGHT TO DIE CASE"). Quinlan’s story loosely inspired the creation of a novel by Barry Reed to then be adapted into a film‚ The Verdict (Simon). The Verdict follows the story of a medical malpractice case in Boston many predicted
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The Ethics of Medical Marijuana: Government Restrictions vs. Medical Necessity Author(s): Peter A. Clark Source: Journal of Public Health Policy‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 1 (2000)‚ pp. 40-60 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3343473 . Accessed: 05/12/2014 23:32 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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