...Grade Received, "A" Ownership of the Medical Record Even though the medical record is made up of data pertaining to the patient, the actual document belongs to the doctor. The medical record is in fact an aide developed by the doctor to reinforce patient care, and also benefits the practitioner. When a doctor quits working in a practice that has several doctors, the question of which doctor actually owns which chart may surface. Sadly, there isn’t an actual answer due to the fact that ownership usually relies on very particular data. Usually, to stay away from arguing regarding ownership of medical records, the doctors must come to an agreement before they enter into the multiple-doctor setting. If an agreement is not reached, the doctors will have to depend on basic business laws, and these types of arguments can end up being very ugly and expensive. Normally, under state business law, work-related products of employees belong to the employers. With that being said, in a practice where one doctor employs another doctor, and a prior agreement is not made, the employee doctor usually will not own any of his/her patients’ charts; instead, the employer doctor does. Regardless of this, a state’s Medical Board rules state that the employer doctors have to give the employee doctors that leave the data needed to contact the consumers that this doctor has treated over the last two years. In a scenario where there is a partnership, the law usually states that any property...
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...Dr. Chen shares her personal experiences with patients and what she learned in her years of training and residency. Dr. Chen mentions how death among patients is an unavoidable part of a doctor’s profession. One of her friends, Kay, was a woman who gave comfort and love to AIDS patients when the patient’s families refused to support the relative. Kay and Dr. Chen grew close and when Dr. Chen moved away, they kept in touch through letters. Soon after, Kay wrote a letter saying that she had developed liver cancer; although the cancer was spreading, Kay remained optimistic and started chemotherapy. Kay tried to get in touch with Dr. Chen when she was in hospice, but she called back a few weeks later. Dr. Chen reminisces her friendship with Kay and it left her with an empty hole; she didn’t know how to take death. Dr. Chen also learned that training needed to be performed until it was second nature for the surgeon. She believes that the more difficult a case is, the deeper you have to go and your steps should be performed more perfectly. Another patient, Michael, had acute liver failure and needed a liver to survive. Michael had a successful transplant. Dr. Chen recalls the boy who’s liver was taken in order to save Michael. The boy who died had passed away because his younger sister climbed into the driver’s seat and started driving and the boy was in front of the front wheels. Dr. Chen was sad and wanted to put the organs back and somehow get the dead boy back to consciousness...
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...Full disclosure--I was never a soap opera fan, but my grandmother and mother watched them when I was quite young (actually before Jack Wagner even graced the screen of General Hospital). In spite of this fissure in my television viewing, for some reason, I remember being familiar with the name Jack Wagner and even recognizing him when he appeared as Bill Avery in season one of When Calls the Heart. I was a tremendous fan of his character. In fact, I was known to banter back and forth with other younger Hearties about why Bill was a better and more handsome Mountie than Jack. In spite of the unpredictable nature of Bill as played so effortlessly by Jack, I still revel in the sense of humor and intensity of passion he skillfully brings to this character every time we witness his prowess on screen. Just this week, I was finally able to chat with Jack, and this is one interview you do NOT want to disregard. We discussed a wide variety of topics including his early acting roles, his ever-expanding work for the Hallmark Channel, and even a bit about his charity endeavors. RH: Jack, I appreciate you...
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...In the book “The Pact” three young men grew up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Streets of crime, violence, and most of all hopelessness. For these three young men, the beginning of the rest of their lives starts when they make a pact to all go to medical school and become doctors. Considering the background that these men are from, this seems impossible. Breaking into the medical field also seemed impossible for Elizabeth Blackwell, who is now recognized as being the first female doctor. Just like the three men from Newark, Blackwell achieved her goal of becoming a doctor in spite of all the discrimination, with dedication and support from friends and family. After being accepted to the Geneva medical program, Dr. Blackwell found that it was not her fellow male students that discriminated against her, but the women who lived in the small town. She states that “she knew eventually that the other women in the town found her odd, so she kept to herself using the school like a refuge from the negativity” (Schlesinger). There were so many times throughout the book “The Pact” that Sam, George, and Rameck were discriminated against. While Blackwell was discriminated against for her sex, these boys were looked down upon and stereotyped for the color of their skin. One night, while Rameck was on his was home from watching a boxing match, he noticed that there were cops outside of the building where the match was being held. He locked eyes with one of the policemen and then...
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... Have you ever been told the news that you wished , would never come out of you parents mouth? I have. On January 17,2016 was the day that my life changed. It was a typical Tuesday afternoon, I got back home from school had a snack with my mom, and that’s when I heard the sound of her phone ringing that will stick with me for the rest of my life. When I first heard her phone ring I thought it my my dad calling to tell her what time her was going to be home for dinner. My brother was at soccer practice so it was just me and my mom in our house. When she looked to see who it was calling she got that look on her face that anybody that knew her would know that it was a look of concern. “Mom who is it?” I asked. “The doctors office,they are calling me to tell me how my lab results came back.” she replied. She got up and walked to her room and shut the door so I couldn’t listen. I knew something was wrong and walked to the now shut door and laid my ear against it. “So it did come back positive for cancer?” my mom asked with a shaky voice. When I heard that word cancer my stomach dropped and I knew this was going to be a long and rough trip to recovery. “What are the treatment options and what type of cancer is it?” my mom asked. She was on the phone with the doctor for at least 30 minutes. After talking to the doctors she knew that I had heard what she was talking to the doctors, she asked me to sit down and told me that we needed to talk. She explained to me that she needed...
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...In the society today, people are more ignorant and they actually rely on doctors whenever they meet such situations. They have the idea that doctors are meant to save people no matter how risky a situation is. However, most people do not know the consequences behind all these. This universal notion has become something so common in the recent years. I personally felt that doctors are innocent in such situations. They should not be blamed whenever they vow not to help the accident victims. Instead, legal community such as lawyers are individuals who we should point the finger at. Legal community has placed physicians into positions where hesitation and fear come along in their everyday life. No doubt that doctors should be responsible to help those who are in need, however, with the strict laws and pressure exerted by this legal community, you wouldn't be surprise that most doctors would choose not to risk their own life or career just to save another stranger. This human nature is inevitable. However, if the situation changes; doctors would not be blamed or sued by the legal community, I would assure that there wouldn't be such a problem anymore. Even if something that was not expected happens, at least doctors have tried their best rather than not putting an effort to give a try at all. Legal community should stop this immediately and considers the consequences and adverse effects which affected not only the doctors but also the society. No one knows when he or she will be...
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...Conflict Resolution at General Hospital Discuss the conflict that is occurring at General Hospital. Due to competition from a nearby hospital’s upgrading medical equipment and remodeling, General Hospital is down to a 65% occupancy while having a 35% increase in Medicare patients, both of which reduce revenue and lead the CEO Mike Hammer to attempt to devise a plan to cut costs and increase revenue in order for the hospital to stay open. He felt that he would be able to increase revenue, but would have a difficult time cutting costs, especially the physician-driven costs, as he had tried a few times in the past to work with doctors to cut costs by trying to eliminate wasteful practices and the doctors would refuse and say that their actions were required for the best patient care. The doctor who was the Director of Medicine for General Hospital insisted that it would be impossible for the doctors to follow any kind of cost cutting program and would deter the best doctors from wanting to work there. Hammer decided that he had to ease into his cost cutting program with the doctors one step at a time. He put the hospital’s chief operating officer, Marge Harding, in charge of finding something that the physicians were doing that could be done at a cheaper cost and change it, even if it meant firing people. Hammer stated he didn’t want to even know what she decided; he wanted her to just implement the change and gave her permission to do whatever she wanted. The conflict...
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...Junious Kilpatrick Prof. Melville En 001 24/09/13 The Living Dead! When I was sixteen years of age, I was diagnosed with a very difficult chronicle illness that impacted my ways of living. This illness was a terrifying experience for me and my family. My life has created its own story, and this was the chapter that decided my fate. The beginning of a new era has occurred. My life is a mystery till this day of how I got the chronicle illness, they say someone in my family has it but no one will confess to being the reason for my new and well deconstructed life, so I guess nobody wants to be the blame so I just blame everyone on my side of the family till someone confesses to giving me what I have to deal with night and day. I’m eighteen for crying out loud what can I do to the person who gave it to me? Absolutely nothing! They already have it bad with having the same illness. Those who walk into the shadows must find their way to the light to have a clear understanding of wrong from right. The walk into the valley of the shadow of death is a terrifying path to walk on. This place was unordinary and considered the neutral zone of heaven and hell, where the souls dwelled for a decision that would be made upon arrival. In August of 2013, I was rushed to the hospital by car due to sharp pains in my lower right section in my stomach. On the way to John Hopkins hospital I was in tears, this was a fierce, and mean sharp pain. I slowly started to yell to my mother. Me: “It hurts hurry...
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...company’s laundry business in the U.K., for instance. In the late 1970s, the company was competing hard to defend and maintain its 35% market share leadership position. In the three decades since, P&G stepped up innovation efforts which introduced a series of game-changing innovations such as Daz automatic detergent, concentrated liquid detergent and most recently Liqutabs. These new innovation efforts now allow the company to enjoy around a 50% share. (Citation needed) P&G seeks huge opportunities for growth and for consumers behind its Purpose-inspired Growth strategy. This strategy will allow the company to expand into more categories, countries and channels. Company Heritage William Procter, a candle maker and James Gamble, a soap maker were persuaded by their father¬-in-law to become business partners. On October 31,...
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...The media, and Hollywood in particular, is one avenue in which the general public becomes familiar with the role of nurses. How does the media positively or negatively influence the public's image of nursing? What other avenues may better educate the general public on the role and scope of nursing as well as the changing health care system? Hollywood definitely portrays nursing in an unrealistic fashion. For the most part there are two different types of TV show’s/movies out there right now and they both shed a different light on nurse’s. Even though I am in love with it, shows such as Grey’s Anatomy in my opinion do not show what it’s like to actually be a nurse. For the most part, we are not running around hooking up with every doctor we see, and one thing that drives me crazy is that they show the doctor’s doing jobs that the nurses do! I have NEVER seen a doctor, not even a resident start a peripheral IV or draw blood. Yet on Grey’s they are starting IVs, drawing blood, pushing meds and spending way more time than I have ever seen talking to patients. I know the show is focused on the doctors, but if I only knew about nursing through watching TV, I would think the doctors were the heroes who comfort patients 24/7, and that all nurses did were stare at each other all day. Sometimes I think even the news can affect how the public views nursing. Within the last few months, a med tech was responsible for a huge Hep C outbreak at my hospital. I know this negatively effected...
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...My dream job is a doctor because I want to help sick people to become healthier. I can also help my parents when they are sick. To become a doctor, I have to read a lot of books because doctors are required to know well about the human body. Also, I have to study English very hard because most of the medical terms are in English. In order to become a doctor, I have to make a constant effort. There are few things for me to work on. First, I have to love and serve for those who are sick. Doctors need to give extra care for their patients because they need to know well about each patient. Second, all doctors have to be diligent. If the doctors are lazy, and do not care to know about the patients, they cannot help them to become healthier. There are many other things for me to work on, but I think these two are the most important things for me to become a good doctor. My dream job is a doctor because I want to help sick people to become healthier. I can also help my parents when they are sick. To become a doctor, I have to read a lot of books because doctors are required to know well about the human body. Also, I have to study English very hard because most of the medical terms are in English. In order to become a doctor, I have to make a constant effort. There are few things for me to work on. First, I have to love and serve for those who are sick. Doctors need to give extra care for their patients because they need to know well about each patient. Second, all doctors have to...
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...In chapter 20 of Kaffir Boy, Johannes is once again woken up by his mother at four in the morning. Johannes is told by his mother that the two are going to the superintendent's office for “important papers.” The two arrive at the office sometime around 5:00 am, and have to wait for another four hours until the office opens. After a perpetual wait out in the cold, Johannes and his mother make it to the front of the office, ready to see the superintendent. A officer tells them that the bass will be out shortly. After a “short” two hour wait, the officer returns and tells them that the superintendent is going home early and that Johannes’ mother can’t return for another month. His mother tries to fight the officer to see the bass but nothing works....
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...the U.S. but will not find them in any area or you might find a restaurant under one name in one area but under another name everywhere else. For example, St. Louis Bread Company was created in St. Louis, Missouri and has many locations under this name in this particular area. But in every other area in the U.S. and Canada this restaurant goes under the name Panera Bread Company and offers the same food at all areas. (Panera Bread Company Overview, 2013) Another example of glocalization, is where an Asian subsidiary of News Corp started broadcasting satellite television into India but for this T.V. station to really take off was to hire a person who was experience in Indian programming to create soap operas that would appeal to that cultural environment not the American soap operas dubbed in Hindi and they also took over the production of news and current affairs. (Johnson, 2007) Finally an example of “glocalization” is our music that we play on the radio or even MTV. Whether it is a different area of the U.S. or other countries the radio/TV stations adapt to that area and what the community wants to listen too. When you cross state lines or country borders you have to change your radio station because you listening to that local areas music taste. If you don’t like changing your music taste then...
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...CASE STUDY COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY THE PRECISION TOOTHBRUSH REPORT Submitted By Group-2, Section-D Abhishek Chowdhary, PGP2011507 Baljinder Singh, PGP2011587 Jubin Mahajan, PGP2011668 Rishabh Ratna, PGP2011825 Roopak Bhartee, PGP2011833 Vasanth C, PGP2011930 Vineeta Singh, PGP2011940 Executive Summary The Colgate-Palmolive case involves the Precision toothbrush, which was entered into the market in 1993 by Colgate-Palmolive. This marketing plan summarizes the company’s situation at the time the Precision toothbrush was introduced, and the different marketing strategies that we believe would be best for Colgate-Palmolive and their new toothbrush. The marketing strategies include proposed strategies involving product, price, place, and promotion. Included in the marketing plan are pro-forma income statements for Colgate Palmolive if they were to launch the product, and also if they were to choose not the launch the product. Also included is an advertising budget. Situation Analysis Colgate Palmolive, having sales of $6.06 billion and a gross profit of $2.76 billion, was poised to launch a new toothbrush “Colgate Precision” in the United States. From early 1990s, therapeutic toothbrushes were gaining acceptance among common people. As a result, the toothbrush industry experienced a massive influx of competitors and formation of a niche market. In order to gain an edge each competitor worked on developing new toothbrush technology and offering promotions...
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...Comparative Essay: Country or City Living Try to picture in your mind the perfect place to live. Did you visualize living in a fast paced or laid back place? How about a place where you know and have a relationship with your neighbors? How about having the basic conveniences and amenities close by? By thinking on these questions you have categorized your choices into two categories: country or city living. Which would you choose? Many believe that city living has more benefits than country living, however, there are some that believe that country living is a real life dream. In order to make a firm decision, a comparison between the two types of living should be conducted as living in either location has both advantages and disadvantages. Some of the similar factors to consider for living in the country or living in the city are the routine, the people’s characteristics, and the life conditions. On the other hand, some of the differences to consider in living in the country compared to living in the city are the cost of living, the relationship with neighbors the basic conveniences and luxury amenities. Living in the country and living in the city share some similarities such as a routine, the people’s characteristics, and life conditions. In living in either place, a routine is developed that usually revolves around the work life. For persons in the city, they normally wake up very early at the same time every morning for work and return home in the later afternoon...
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