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Medicine and Nutrition Term Papers and Reports
Euthanasia
344 Words - 2 Pages

.... quarters of the people surveyed believed that the choice should be given to the patient. The second question was about non-immediate life threatening cases: "When a person has an incurable disease that is not immediately life-threatening but causes that person to experience great suffering, do you, or do you not think that competent doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a formal request in writing?" As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking of treatment that has not been tried yet or t ....


Teen Pregnancy
585 Words - 3 Pages

.... active. There are so many ways to prevent an unintended pregnancy. A very popular form of birth control are condoms. They are inexpensive and can be found anywhere, from your neighborhood drugstore to a vending machine at a public restroom. A condom is sheath that fits over the penis made of either latex, plastic or animal tissue. Condoms are also refered to as a rubber, safe or jimmy. It catches semen before, during and after a man ejaculates.It prevents pregnancy by preventing the sperm from entering the vagina. There is however a risk that you might get pregnant even with the use of condoms. It is not one hundred percent effective. However, latex condoms also protect ....


Critical Incident Stress (CIS)
875 Words - 4 Pages

.... to believe that ESW's can walk amongst broken bones, burning bodies's, handle body part's, assist with the distraught survivor's and view terrible destruction without being effected in some way by such graphic exposure. People suffering from this experience physical, emotional and cognitive effects.(Mitchell 86). CIS reaction's are incident specific. They may be either Acute or Delayed.(Mitchell 81) An acute CIS reaction begins while the ESW is engaged with on scene operations. It is an incident that is often very disturbing for ESW's and may become physically ill as a result of the intense stress level associated with the event.(Bush Fire Services 92). Under particu ....


Assisted Suicide
1273 Words - 5 Pages

.... that legalized this means of ending life. However, doctor assisted is still seen as a criminal act in thirty four states(Rosen 1). In my opinion, doctor assisted suicide should be made legal throughout the nation. If a terminally ill patient wants to take his or her life due to excruciating pain, he or she should have the ability to utilize euthanasia. Ultimately, the decision should be that of the terminally ill individual. The main controversy over this issue, is the question of morality. Is it morally right for a doctor to assist in suicide? Many individuals feel that it is not. It is thought if assisted suicide is legalized throughout the states, it will encou ....


Crohn's Disease
345 Words - 2 Pages

.... is no way to predict when the remission may occur or when symptoms will return. This disease tends to be hereditary, so if your parents have then the chances are high that you are going to get it. There are no known causes for , some scientists say that bacteria infections can cause this disease. The disease is not contagious. It has been said that your diet can affect how affects you. Diarrhea is one of the most common symptoms of . can also be referred to as IBD, which stands for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It can also be referred to as Ulcerative Colitis, or simply colitis, enteritis, ileitis or proctitis. This disease is not very threatening, but can ca ....


Borderline Personality Disorder
946 Words - 4 Pages

.... Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Press, 1994), “Adolescents and young adults with identity problems may transiently display behaviors that misleadingly give the impression of Borderline Personality Disorder.” The reason for this is because some of the symptoms of Borderline patients are like the characteristics of adolescence. Examples of these would be uncertainty of life and career choices, sexual promiscuity, and substance abuse. However, those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these symptoms: 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. 2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships cha ....


Life, Death, And Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.
2501 Words - 10 Pages

.... is human and therefore given the same human rights as the mother. Stated simply, they believe that when a society legalizes abortion, it is sanctioning murder. In today's more industrialized societies, technology has simplified the abortion procedure to a few basic and safe methods. Technology, however, has also enhanced society's knowledge of the fetus. Ultrasound, fetal therapy, and amniocentesis graphically reveal complex life before birth, and it is this potential human life that is at the heart of the debate. In order to form an opinion on this matter, we must first question and define several common factors which are numerously debated. I. When does human li ....


Antibiotic Resistance
646 Words - 3 Pages

.... because the bacteria has found a way to avoid the effects of that antibiotic. Another cause of resistance is the improper use of drugs. When patients feel that the symptoms of their disease have improved, they often stop taking the drug. Just because the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the disease has gone away. Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the effects of the drug. One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexand ....



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