It is common to tell lies to the terminally ill with the intent to help them. ... It has always been easy to lie to the terminally ill. ... ( Bok 233-234) I believe that lying to terminally ill patients is wrong. ... I am sure that the doctors who are lying to these patients "for their own good" would want the courtesy of being told the truth if they were in the terminally ill patient's shoes. I have come to the conclusion that a major reason that doctors lie to terminally ill patients is because they don't want to be put in the awkward situation of being bearer of bad news. ...

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Usually, family members decide whether the patient should live or die, not the patient himself. ... Another argument is that many question whether an ill person is in a state of mind to understand or request to end his or her life. ... In Washington State, only ill adults that are at the final stages of their lives are able to choose whether they want to live or die. ... For instance, people with incurable diseases or extremely ill patients must go to court, and then the court will decide if they are allowed to use assisted suicide. ... In addition, physicians were allowed to give their ill pa...

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In passive euthanasia, by withholding intravenous feedings, medications, surgery, a pacemaker, or a respirator, the doctor can let the patient die of the underlying disease. ... Starting with the moral analysis of the patient who desires to go through euthanasia, we could say that his or her wish has some logical arguments. ... According to an American doctor (Kass, 1991), "killing patients - even those who ask for death- violates the inner meaning of the art of healing". ... The surgeries, life support, drugs, doctor's fees and all the other expenses of a terminally ill patient are stag...

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Washington stopped a law that was in action for 140 years in which the judge stated the patients who were competent and terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in death. ... Patients are incapable of thought, memory, and voluntary action. However, patients can breathe because the brainstem is the last thing to die. ... Legal Issues Regarding Euthanasia Three legal means are used to express an individual's desire to withdraw or withhold treatment if he or she were to become incompetent or terminally ill. ... The doctors stated they encountered terminally ill patients asking...

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Not only does the patient have to suffer, but the family of the patient as well, all because of someone not following what they were hired to do. ... It is a job based solely on the well-being of the patients. ... Specifically, people entering nursing homes are elderly, and in most cases, somewhat ill, so they are very easy to take advantage of. ... Smith needed, she got very ill and required medical attention. ... Smith to get severely ill, the nurse in charge failed to get her to the hospital on time, which caused her to pass away. ...

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Doctor Joseph Evers says, "To say that a patient on a ventilator, declared brain dead and is certain to die, is no longer a person, is to deny reality. ... As a physician, that person is obligated to do all that is in his power for the best interest of the patient. ... As stated also in the Associated Press Nader said he was concerned that the law was targeting terminally ill patients who suffer from depression or worry about being a financial burden to their relatives. ... An advance directive contains instructions regarding medical treatment requested by the patient, to guide health care ...

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So, then, why do people still permit this to go on, why has it become an option for terminally ill patients? ... The second is where the patient is unconscious and unable to decide what to do with their own life. ... Another key reason is that the patients are clinically depressed. In a study done, of the 24 percent of terminally ill patients who requested assisted suicide, all had also been diagnosed with clinical depression (Euthanasia.com). ...

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As it can be seen so far, occupation can have a serious affect on a lupus patient. ... Atherosclerosis is a common symptom for lupus patient's who do not reduce their risk factors. ... But, not all patients with cases of lupus are fortunate enough to survive. ... Keeping the family involved and up to date on what is going on will allow everyone and not just the person who is ill to make changes that can benefit the entire family as a whole. ... For patient's with lupus, the illness will forever have an effect on their life. ...

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Motivation of the patient seems to be the most important factor, although this is difficult to measure. ... Introduction Tobacco smoking causes about 13,000 deaths in Scotland each year, making smoking the single most preventable cause of premature mortality and ill health . ... If a patient has the motivation to stop then help should be given. ... If a patient does not have this motivation then interventions however effective they have been proven will not work. ... Having an understanding of where a patient is in the cycle can help direct the resources effectively. ...

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Abstract Sigmund Freud is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century because his ideas have been used in the culture today. It is unlikely that a person has never heard of or used a Freudian idea such as a Freudian slip or dream analysis. This paper focuses on Freud's revolutionary ...

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Dialysis is most frequently used for patients who have kidney failure but is also used when hospitals receive patients who are overdosed on drugs and need to cleanse their blood fast. ... Anxiety is also frequintly expeirenced with patients who have ESKD. A patients fear of death and unpredictability of there disease gives patients higher anxiety. ... On the other hand if a patient is able to receive a kidney from a person who was healthy and recently pasted away resentment might occur because the patient truly does not know where that kidney came from, Makes the patient feel uneasy. ......

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In the Egyptian religion it was believed that the human body was born in a healthy state and would not become ill unless there was an influence from a foreign agent. ... "This oath detailed the rights of the patient under the physician's care and detailed the responsibilities the physician had to the patient. This oath set the ethical standard in direct patient care for many years to follow" (http://www.allsands.com/Science/hippocratesbiog_rtb_gn.htm). ...

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Franz Mesmer was said to be curing patients doctors called "incurable". ... When a magnet was brought into contact with a patient, the subtle and mysterious fluid exuded by the magnet entered the body of the patient and healed him of his complaint. ... He passed long iron rods and magnets over the bodies of sick patients to enhance the balance of their fluids. ... Trying to relate Mesmer's convulsing patients with the characteristics of hypnosis; relaxation and calamity perplexed many. Many did not see Mesmer's patients as experiencing the same things that hypnosis would evoke from a...

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At that point, Nightingale was ill and suicidal. ... Second, she insisted that any poor and ill woman should be admitted, not only those who were members of the Church of England. ... To make things even worse, the injured and diseased patients were crowd in rooms with little, most of the time no ventilation. ... Finally, the doctors noticed how amazing Florence and the nurses' work truly was and allowed them to care for the patients and assist the doctors. ... In the midst of all this positive change, Florence still battled military and government officials and religious leaders who we...

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Anorexia Nervosa is a rapidly growing issue in today's society. The disease is identified by the refusal to maintain a healthy weight, an irrational fear of gaining weight despite weighing too little, loss of the menstrual cycle in women, and an inaccurate view of one's body, often referred to as dysmorphia. At one point in time, this illness was mainly associated with adolescents. Now, children as young as five years old are being treated for Anorexia (Borland). The DSM criteria for children are slightly altered, and consist of "determined weight loss abnormal cognition's regar...

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"After 2 to 7 days, SARS patients may develop a dry, nonproductive cough that might be accompanied by or progress to the point where insufficient oxygen is getting to the blood. In 10 percent to 20 percent of cases, patients will require mechanical ventilation."" ... (China's Ministry of Health Latest S.A.R.S Statistics) The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have received reports of patients with SARS from over 27 countries worldwide. ... Scientist and laboratories have detected a unrecognized corona virus in S.A.R.S patients. ... Ph...

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I both neglected and ill-used them. ... But my disease grew worse upon me, and eventually, even Pluto, who was by now quite old and weak, began to experience the effects of my ill-temper. ... My original soul seemed, all at once, to have left my body, and a more evil, ill-nurtured one filled every fibre of my being. ...

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Evens found that medical illnesses such as Chronic Schizophrenia which causes high, intense levels of hallucination and personality changes is indeed one cause for a mentally ill person to become incompetent to function in today's society. ... For some AIDS and HIV patients they also develop complications such as Dementia that causes predicaments that are even more socially estranging. ... We have also both learned while working at Sutter Hospital and with our interviews that many patients, who are homeless, have been through the following problems. ... Numerous hospitals require repaym...

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In some high functioning older adults, the physiological effects of normal aging show little to no ill effect on the brain function, as Halpren (2008) indicates. ... These researchers created in vitro models of genetic and sporadic forms of Alzheimer's disease, using pluripotent stem cells specifically from patients who suffered from this specific neurodegenerative disorder. ... To create these neurons, the researchers extracted fibroblasts (skin cells) of two patients with sporadic Alzheimer's, two people with familial Alzheimer's and two people with no known neurological con...

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UniversityNumber; 0212516 Human Molecular Diseases Abstract The essay concentrates on the single gene defects, looking initially at the types of mutations which effect genes and then moving on to the three major groups of these disorders; autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant and sex-linked. ...

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The drug lobbyists ask for legalization on the platform of marijuana for cancer patients and other sufferers of disease. The advocates for the war on drugs feel that the drug lobby is exploiting the ill and dying to get their foots in the door for the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana. ... The inescapable truth is that getting drug traffickers off the street protects neighborhoods against criminals, violent crime and social ills attendant with drug use. ...

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THURGOOD MARSHALL During the 20th century I have read many books, newspaper articles and seen news broadcasts on two of the most famous Afro American Pioneers: Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marsha...

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Haunted by her past, Julia Alvarez has portrayed her immigrant experience as both painful and ambiguous. Her love of language and need to understand it has molded her life as an English professor and acclaimed author (Contemporary 1). However, a chronological study of several of her works exposes a disturbing path in her writing. Homecoming, Alvarez's first publication, is a collection of poems that barely even hint that she is in fact Hispanic. The publication has only one poem that hints of color and only one Spanish word. ...

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Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and received grater recognition when in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African- American women to do so. Born Chlo...

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"He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath, and open his eyes as if he had hurt himself by accident, and body was to blame." ...

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