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Addiction And Heath Professionals
<view this essay>.... health professional? Although the subject has been kept behind closed doors, more and more health professionals are publicly speaking about their struggle with addiction. This has heightened the general public’s awareness of a problem that does exist within the field. This realization has led the American Medical Association to take active and preventive measures toward drug use as well as state medical boards (Mansky, 1996). The American with Disabilities Act protects the drug impaired health professional through recovery and back into his/her job. The problem concerning addicted health professionals seems to affect the public as most of us seek heal .....
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Hemispheres Of The Brain
<view this essay>.... asymmetry with in the cerebral cortex had long
been a fascination with the human race. The ancient Aztec cultures used to
perform a type of brain surgery on humans. This is evident from the human
remains that we find with incisions and piece's missing of the skull. Whether
or not these primitive surgeries were successful is unknown. The earliest way
for man to observe the brain was by noticing brain damage to a particular area
of the brain that was damaged. Such observations were first recorded some 5,000
years ago (Myers,1995). The most popular case is that of Phineas Gage a
railroad worker that had severe frontal lobe damage. This happened w .....
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The Ambivalence Of Abortion
<view this essay>.... of four who are barely surviving discovers she is pregnant.
She decides to have an abortion because she cant afford the baby. That might
have saved the world of another sad story of a mother abusing and neglecting her
unwanted child. Unfortunately, sometimes a mother can run the risk of death if
they go through with the pregnancy. Would it be fair to let the mother of two
young children die because SOME PEOPLE don't believe in abortion? On the other
hand, it may be true that young women are taking advantage of the fact that they
can easily have an abortion. Some say they are substituting birth control with
abortion. Nevertheless, no one ever said we can' .....
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The Psychological Effects Of Using Steroids
<view this essay>.... by the testes and adrenal glands and by the adrenal glands in females. The body uses these hormones to combat inflammation, stimulate development of bones and muscles, contributes to the growth of skin and hair and can also influence emotions. Anabolic Steroids, also known as "juice", are a synthetic version of the hormone testosterone. When taken, either orally or injected, these synthetic steroids fool the body into thinking that testosterone is being produced and therefore the body shuts down functions involving testosterone (Mishra 2). Given the right training stimulus and diet, these steroids enables the user to process protein into muscle fibers at ast .....
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What Is PMS?
<view this essay>.... related to a women's menstrual cycle are related to PMS. Stomach cramps, upset stomach or vomiting during the first day of a woman's period are not symptoms.
What Causes PMS?
No one really knows the cause of PMS. Study suggests that PMS is most likely caused by hormonal changes that occur before each period. It is also very unclear why some symptoms have minor effects while other have major effects.
Who Experiences PMS?
It said in some evaluations that approximately 10 percent of women that are menstruating experience extreme premenstrual symptoms. PMS can happen at any time in a menstruating woman's life. It usually appears in women in their early t .....
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Critical Incident Stress (CIS)
<view this essay>.... i.e. Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade and volunteer organisation's because of CIS.
It would be stupid 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 physi .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... is acceptable when the person has consented to die. Other positions include situations where a terminally ill patient is unable to consent as justifiable, because it resolves a hopeless situation. Conversely, even with this gradation, some opponents to believe that voluntary, passive is the same as suicide; involuntary is considered to be murder.
Because poses classic dilemmas as to its morality, it is not surprising that many issues arise in the legal and medical arenas. In law, the resolution of a particular case cannot always be applied to resolve another. In the medical realm, interpretation of medical doctrine concerning treatment of terminally .....
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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
<view this essay>.... and
it stayed that way. Unfortunately this method did not work for humans.
Again in the mid 1980's scientist got their hopes up and again were let
down. They took islets and made a small incision near the navel and fed
the islets through a tube into a vein that leads to the portal vein. Once
the islets were lodged in the smaller vessels they had direct contact with
blood. The results were had the scientist encouraged. Their patients were
given 400 thousand islets, but they did not produce enough insulin to
enable the patients to stop taking injections. In 1990, 145 patients had
received islet transplants. In most patients the islets had not been able .....
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