...In a study of patients specifically identified as terminally ill, 17-28% reported spending 10% or more of their income in health care costs outside of insurance premiums. (Donely and Danis, 184) Patients start to feel like a burden to their caregivers because insurance companies only cover a certain amount of their bills. Economically taking care of a terminal ill person is very costly. According to Greer Donley and Marion Danis “ One study noted that 10-16% of terminally ill patients and/or their families had to take out a loan or mortgage, spend their savings, or obtain an additional job to cover medical care costs” (184). Some terminal ill patients fill guilty for having their family pay medical bills, instead of spending the money on other expenses to take care of the...
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...Mental Illness Ellen is a 35 year old laboratory technician, she is happily married and has a beautiful three-year-old daughter Emily. Unfortunately in the last three years she has been unable to enjoy her life or her family as well as she wants to. She has been suffering from a severe form of Postnatal Depression which has forced her to leave her job and spend eleven months in a psychiatric hospital. While now on the road to recovery, Ellen admits that the hardest part of her illness is coping with the attitude of others: "I had no history of mental illness prior to my daughter being born. I was happy and successful in life but now I find myself being treated as an alien. People, including family and friends, seem not to know what to say to me - so they say nothing. Little is known by the majority of folk about "clinical depression", so you're treated as an outcast". 1) Poor mental health is something which will probably affect everyone of us to some degree, either directly or indirectly, at sometime during our lives. 2) But despite the fact that mental disorder is classified as an "illness" which can be "treated" just like physical illness, many psychiatric patients can identify with Ellen's experience of feeling like an outcast. 3) Society can be very uncomfortable around those with mental health problems and as a result, there is a general reluctance among people to admit to mental distress or to reveal that one has been hospitalised, taken medication or had...
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...of suffering and the specter of death from starvation or suicide.” Eating Disorders cause many problems in life; they are something we need to stop because fad diets are unhealthy in many ways. First, fad diets are unhealthy because they cause rapid weight loss. The first cause of rapid weight loss in fad diets is women’s health, looks, and reproduction. David S. Goldbloom states in the book Medical Issues and the Eating Disorders: the Interface, “Females are more known for fad diets do to their physical complications reproduction.” Women are usually emotional during reproduction cycles, they do not like the way they look, and they begin dieting in dangerous ways. Looks are not everything! People should not diet quickly to cause happiness, because health wise it is not good for the human body. The way someone looks should not affect their lives in ways that they would look to dangerous dieting. A second cause of rapid weight loss in fad diets is eating too much due to reproduction appetitive drives. Goldbloom also mentions that “It is well-known that disturbed eating behavior from any cause can disrupt menstrual function, it is perhaps less well-known that the menstrual cycle itself influences appetitive drives.” Women will both eat too much and become obese, or they will starve themselves to lose weight quickly. Rapid weight loss is unhealthy and dangerous to any human being. A third cause of weight loss in fad diets is that people will go without food to lose weight. Some...
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...Homelessness There is an urgency to save the homeless in this country, but it seems less altruistic than it in fact is. The urgency is related to an out of sight out of mind philosophy. People who live in residences paid for with their own income have many misconceptions about the homeless: For example their social nature, beliefs, cause of despair, and what to do to fix the broken system of feeding and sheltering those in need. People cannot solely want to cure homelessness because they do not want to see it, or panhandlers bother them, it has to come from an unselfish place. It is the responsibility of human service agencies to educate the public, and find ways to empower the homeless so they do not have to suffer. A reform in intervention is necessary; with so many homeless adults and teens having mental illnesses, a way to return them to a societal reality needs to be addressed. History of Homelessness in the United States Animals, including humans, have always sought to find shelter. The basic needs for survival include food, water, air, and shelter. These four necessities are mentioned in every philosopher’s or psychologist ideologies of what humans need for survival. Even Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has safety as one of the most basic needs. When someone loses or has never had a permanent residence they are considered homeless. Cars, friends’ couches, shelters, and abandoned warehouses are not considered homes. In the middle-ages the homeless were a way to make it into...
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... society will be stable and promote productivity but if it does not go to plan, parts of the system will fail and have to find new order and stability. Functionalism highlights the order that exists in society and focuses on social stability and public values. Some functionalists focus on the function of human behaviours, one of these sociologists is Robert Merton who categorised human functions into two sections; ‘manifest functions’ which included the actions that were obvious and intentional such as attending a church to worship as part of a religion and ‘latent functions’ which are actions that are neither intentional or obvious such as when going to the church to worship they are unintentionally going to also separate their personal values from their uniform, work or religious values. Functionalism doesn’t encourage people to be an active role or go about changing their social environment, even if these changes could be useful and good for them. By using the basics to the functionalist perspective, Talcott Parsons( ) came up with the idea that in order for society to function without error, each individual within society must be healthy. When someone becomes ill they have a new role to fill which includes being excused from going to work or school or going to family events as well as the need to be cared for by someone else. Talcott Parsons believed that when one person in the family...
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...Yeragani, Paul Eugen Bleuler and the origin of the term schizophrenia (SCHIZOPRENIEGRUPPE), Indian J Psychiatry. 2012 Jan-Mar; 54 Connie Brichford, Considering the Genetic Risks of Schizophrenia, Everyday Health Media, LLC, 2015 Dorothea Dix. Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015. Web. 19 Aug. 2015 Mental Illness and Crime: What the Legacy of Dorothea Dix Hath Wrought, 2014 Hank Campbell History of schizophrenia, Schizophrenia.com, The Internet Mental Health Initiative, 1996-2010, Mental Illness and Crime: What the Legacy of Dorothea Dix Hath Wrought, 2014 "Kirkbride, - Thomas Story." Social Welfare History Project. The Social Welfare History Project, 11 Nov. 2013. Web. 19 Aug. 2015. Leland Hinsie, "The treatment of schizophrenia: A survey of the literature," psychiatric Quarterly 3 (1929):5-34 PBS Online’s “Timeline: Treatments for Mental Illness” (08/10/2015) Robert Whitaker, (2002) Mad in America, Perseus publishing, pg.4. Rachel Whitehead, Schizophrenia: 100 years of bad treatment, 29, Oct, 2011. Renato M.E. Sabb/atini, PhD, The history of shock therapy in psychiatry, Chemical convulsions and schizophrenia, web,...
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...killing performed to patients who are disabled or terminally ill as a result of irreversible coma or painful and incurable disease. One form of Euthanasia is the Physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide happens when a disabled or a terminally ill patients are assisted by a physician or other medical practitioner to terminate their own life, either by giving the patient instructions on the suicide method to use or giving a lethal drug prescription to commit suicide. Several European countries have accepted physician-assisted suicide practices and euthanasia. However, in the United States, physician-assisted suicide has only been legalized in five states. Currently, the United States has not legalized euthanasia, but a vigorous debate on whether all states should emphases physician-assisted suicide and legalize euthanasia is going on. However, what derails the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is the controversial arguments...
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...types of opinions and conversion on the matter. It is definitely a hot button topic when it comes to Ethical dilemmas, theories, principles, and how society should precede with this in application of law and legislation. I believe that allowing for Euthanasia globally and nationally will begin to further erode the very moral and ethical fiber that separates man from animal. I further support my stand with the example of abortion, and even though opinion hasn’t changed much in the 40 years since Roe vs. Wade allowed for abortion to take place, still millions of babies have been killed despite to negative opinions about it. My hypothesis on this issue is that if nationally legalized it would lead to an untold amount of elderly, handicapped, ill, poor, and lonely people vulnerable to being put to death against their wishes and before their time. The aim of this paper it too show that indeed legalizing “Euthanasia” or “Patient Assisted Suicide” would indeed lead us down the “slippery slope. This first step for me in this paper would be to talk about the theories and principles behind not being pro-euthanasia. There are a number of ethical principles that are deontological in nature, are part of the natural moral law, and relevant to the kinds of dilemmas that occur in euthanasia cases.Four of them are as follows: 1. The Principle of Autonomy. A competent person has the right to determine his or her own course of medical action in accordance with a plan he or she chooses. We have...
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...Transformation of the West. This particular book was based on three essays Herlihy wrote about the Black Death, but they were never published. Herlihy discussed his viewpoint of the cause primary causes, medical issues, and his personal feelings of the Black Death. The first essay mainly focused on the epidemiology and medical issues during that time period that could’ve caused the Black plague. Herlihy started off by questioning if the Black Death should really be known as a plague. Many researches stated that the Black Death expanded due to rodents which caused these people to become ill and die. Due to the rodents causing...
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...doctor wants to see you right away. When you ask her what is the problem; she tells you that it would be best if you came into the office as soon as possible. You tell her that there is no way that you can come in until next week; she asks if you can hold for a minute while she relays the message to your doctor, and the next thing you know your physician is on the phone and tells you that he wants to see you today. You try to rationalize everything that your physician could possibly tell you. Then you tell yourself that it cannot be too bad because you have always taken good care of your body, you eat right, you get plenty of exercise, and you see your doctor once a year. At the doctor’s office, the doctor informs you that there is no easy way of telling you that a large amount of cancer cells have been found in your blood work. As you try to speak, he continues to inform you that the cancer cells have completely taken over your blood and have migrated to your vital organs. As you try to speak again, he interrupts you one more time, however, this time it is to deliver the final blow; you only have six weeks left to live, which you will surely spend in extreme pain and unremitting suffering as your body goes into complete organ failure. Would you not want the option to end your pain and suffering and die with at least a little dignity? This is what physician-assisted suicide (PAS), if legalized, would offer terminally ill patients. The strongest argument made on behalf of...
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...Antibiotics: A Harmful Misused Product Today, the human race has way too much reliance on antibiotics and products associated with them. Many people are extremely unaware of what can happen if antibiotics are overused or used incorrectly. Nobody allows their body to heal itself. In certain cases antibiotics should be used to help cure one of an infection but not in the ways they are used today. Antibiotics can be found in many household that includes mostly all wipes and sprays. Antibiotics being included in all of these products can do nothing but hurt one in the long run. Placing antibiotics in cleaning appliances can cause all bacteria to become immune and change so that the antibiotic becomes unproductive and the bacterium becomes stronger. Antibiotics are used for anything from cuts to strep throat and pneumonia and have been for a very long time. They are becoming impotent because they are used incorrectly by nearly everyone: doctors, patients, and even people raising animals for meat. The misuse would be prescribing the drugs completely incorrectly. In doing this, superbugs are produced and they are extremely antibiotic resistant and almost impossible to stop. Antibiotics also kill some of the good and helpful bacteria inside of the body which may allow resistant bacteria to fill in. The human body itself has sets up its own defenses with pathogens and other walls that fight and harmful bacteria off without any use of antibiotics. It is very faulty to overuse any type...
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...Title: E. Coli In Ground Beef: Cause of Many Illnesses and Deaths Introduction Thesis statement: There are many cases where people have become ill and even died because of E. coli in ground beef. Body Paragraphs First supporting idea: Stephanie Smith becomes very ill after eating a hamburger in which the meat contained E. coli. Second supporting idea: Two people die after eating ground beef that may have contained E. coli linked to illness in more than two dozen people. Third supporting idea: An outbreak at Jack in the Box restaurants that killed four children. Conclusion Many people have died due to this bacteria, therefore something should be done about it. E. Coli In Ground Beef: Cause of Many Illnesses and Deaths E. coli is a bacterium that is most commonly found in warm blooded organisms. There exists several types of E. coli, many of which are not harmful to human health, except for serotype O157:H7. This serotype can cause food poisoning in humans and even lead to death in some cases. Some signs and symptoms of E. coli O157:H7 are: abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and fatigue. A healthy adult has a higher chance of fully recovering from this serotype within five to seven days. On the other hand, young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems can develop potentially fatal HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome), a type of kidney failure. A person can be at high risk to becoming ill if they consume things like: soft...
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...is the cause of today's many social ills. What is your opinion? Support your answers with examples. You should write at least 350 words. *gulp bismillah... Innovation and development in our country have caused many changes especially in various technologies. We are now merging the era where (ICT) Information and communications technology has come crucial to our daily live, however this arrogation for (ICT) to be one major component in almost each and every single activity of our routines. Subsequently, when the goods of (ICT) outshine the cons we tend to be blinded by the replenishment it brings to our country. As for example, we can see how (ICT) improves our administration system, educational system and not forgetting our economy. Virtually the benefits outstandingly overshadowing the negative resolutions in which (ICT) possess, none has the integrity to acknowledge this due to the (ICT) contribution towards our world. According to Cambridge Dictionary (ICT) is where massive exchange of information or data occurs anywhere and anytime. Indeed, it does brings a lot of benefits to our daily life, notwithstanding what if the "information" or "data" we are referring to can be contagiously negative to the vulnerable stakeholders? Interrogating who could they be? Whether we realise it or not the most affected by the (ICT) which left venomous impact as it is poisoning their mind and slowly corrupting it. Perplexed, (ICT) has been causing many social ills in reality...
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...these questions everyday like: What are Germs and why does one become ill? Do viruses play a part or do Poor lifestyle choices play a large role? The Multi-factorial Model explains this; there are many reasons that an individual’s health may suffer. One’s environment, biology, socioeconomic status, sources of stress, and even personality all help to determine if someone will fall ill. Physicians and mental health professionals, as well as their patients, can benefit from this information. When an individual knows what is causing his or her health problems, he or she is better prepared to take steps to cure or prevent these problems. Maybe, like the old wives tale, it is believed that being outside with a wet head caused that persistent cold? Most of the listed reasons do play a role in whether or not an individual will become ill, but there are others issues that are contributed as well. One of the causes of health problems in individuals is environmental factors. How does one’s environment makes him or her sick? Consideration must be given to an individual’s environment. Is there clean drinking water available? Can an individual venture outside without fear of what toxic chemicals may be taken the human body when breathing the air? Some people worry about illness with every drink of water and breathe of air they take in. The World Health Organization (2008) stated that “Thirteen million deaths annually are due to preventable environmental causes. Preventing environmental risk...
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...What is euthanasia? Levine (2012) states like truth telling, euthanasia is an old problem given new scope by the ability of modern medical technology to prolong life. Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. There are four types of euthanasia listed by Levine: active euthanasia, passive euthanasia, voluntary euthanasia, and non-voluntary euthanasia. The controversy is not life ending, but when death is inescapable, how far should one go in accelerating it? On October 27, 1997 Oregon enacted the Death with Dignity Act which allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose (Oregon 2012). The Act requires the Oregon Department of Human Services to collect information about the patients and physicians who participate in the Act, and publish an annual statistical report. Many objections that arise on this topic is the act allowing patients to commit suicide? The Eighth Annual Report on Oregon's Death with Dignity Act states under the Act, ending one's life in accordance with the law does not constitute suicide (ProCon 2012). The Death with Dignity Act legalizes physician-assisted suicide (PAS), but specifically prohibits euthanasia, where a physician or other person directly administers a medication to end another's life. In 1997 Oregon became the first state to permit physician-assisted...
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