They found that 47% of Americans are in favor of allowing physician-assisted suicide for those that are terminally ill while a close 49% are against it. ... All these things would be more or less a perfect description of the everyday life of a terminally ill patient. ... Most of the reasons why terminally ill patients request doctors to assist them in committing suicide might be caused by problems such as hopelessness because there is no effective treatment, anxiety over doctors' very expensive fees, and regret for their family's burden of taking care of them. ... A painless life u...

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The study found that cancer patients had a 2.3 times higher suicide rate than the general population. ... With bills filed in twenty states plus the District of Columbia, the fight to legalize physician-assisted suicide for individuals who are terminally ill will be a prominent subject in the US this year. ... There is opposition coming from people with concerns regarding doctor's ethics, as well as religious groups and disability activists who believe that assisted suicide suggests that the lives of disabled, old, and ill individuals are not worth living. ... Second, they must determine ...

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Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. The Medical Marijuana Law does not cover all terminally ill or debilitating medical conditions. ... Valid documentation can be a statement signed by the patient's physician or a copy of the patient's pertinent medical records. ... Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. ... Whether or not, medical-grade marijuana can help many terminally ill patients and s...

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Doctors will not inspire trust unless patients are confident that doctors are for no reasons disposed to kill them; and have no inclinations to ask whether a patient is worth caring for or treating, rather than asking what care or treatment might benefit the patient. The practice of Euthanasia however, disposes doctor to kill certain of their patients and also inculcates a disposition to think of some patients as not having worthwhile lives. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are...

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Pro-marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the National Lymphoma Foundation argue that Marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. ... Among some of the terminally ill patients in need of marijuana are AIDS victims, glaucoma sufferers, and cancer patients. AIDS patients find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation. ... Cancer patients use marijuana to alleviate the severe nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... ...

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But a number of studies have shown that patients do want to know the truth.10 Clinicians may refrain from telling patients difficult truths because they feel uncomfortable doing so. ... Its topic headings are How to Get Started, How to Find Out How Much the Patient Knows, Finding Out How Much the Patient Wants to Know, Sharing the Information, Responding to Patients" Feelings, and Planning Follow-Through.11 Respect for patient autonomy is an important principle, but caregivers also have autonomy. ... In some, the living will is in effect only if the patient is terminally ill and death is i...

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Marijuana has had analysis for its use as a medicine and the results showed improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... I have researched for its positive effects when used properly, so that marijuana can be considered in treating patients. ... The Institute of Medicine has also this controversy when it said smoking marijuana is risky, but also recommended that critically ill patients should be allowed to use it under closely monitored settings (Koch 707). A specialist at the National Cancer Institute authorized his patients to use the drug, but not over do it (Koc...

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Somewhere in between providing bored high school kids something to do and being used to treat terminally ill patients marijuana has acquired the title of the "gateway drug." ... Among them are AIDS patients who say it stimulates their appetites and therefore countering deadly emaciation; cancer patients who say it aids in allaying ruthless nausea that comes with chemotherapy; glaucoma suffers who credit marijuana for saving their sight, and multiple sclerosis victims who claim it limits the muscle pain and spasticity caused by the deadly disease. In some patients marijuana has also been helpf...

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When a patient facing death demands the right to an experimental drug, is it responsible to give them a chance or is it necessary to prioritize the impact that decision can have on millions of other patients and their families in the larger global community. ... We must ask ourselves whether an individual patient or small group of patients' immediate needs is justification to bypass the FDA framework that is designed to protect the public. ... If we view experimental drugs as an industry and the patients as the customers, the very nature of the customers is that they are looking for anyt...

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Many patients who are fatally ill benefit more from smoking marijuana compared to taking other drugs, and studies show that its toxicity level is lower too. With this said, it would be important for the law to give patients the option to smoke marijuana for its medical purposes. ... In an article published in the Boston Global, Lester Grinspoon, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School had written, "Doctors and nurses have seen that for many patients, cannabis is more useful, less toxic, and less expensive than the conventional medicines prescribed" Several elements ...

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As an undergraduate at Africa Nazarene University, I was fortunate to work with amazing lectures who trained me in the art of engaging with different kind patients. ... Unfortunately, majority of those problems went undiagnosed and unmanaged and patients were left to silently suffer. ... Where the reality of the mistreatment of the mentally ill in Kenya hit me. ... Families with patients suffering from mental health often felt like they had been cursed and most of them dropped the patients off at the gate and left, never to be seen again, and others opting to take their loved ones to witch doc...

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To share hope with a patient, the nurse needs to encourage the patient when appropriate and provide positive feedback. Hope bears that all things are possible, believes all things are possible, and this is what the nurse wants to communicate to the patient, their belief in the patient's strength to overcome any obstacle, and for the patient's future to become better as a result. ... Knowledge is power, and is vital for patient treatment. ... For an example, a patient may state that they are in a lot of pain. ... " brings clearer focus to the patients situation, and helps the n...

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Yet, he argues that these patients have nothing to fear, at least as far as long-term effects, as their illnesses do not provide that long-term future for them. He believes that because of this and the well known fact that the drug provides relief for these patients, the government is wrong in preventing the treatment from being available; as he puts it "a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy handed and inhumane" (670). ... He counters that argument by saying that the nauseous sensations t...

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It can be very difficult to break the cycle of poverty and ill health as all aspects of a persons life affect each other. ... People can prevent ill health from occurring (or worsening) by adopting a healthier lifestyle. ... In regards to treatment, a holistic doctor or medical practitioner "may use all forms of health care, from conventional medication to alternative therapies, to treat a patient". by seeking out the causes for a person's symptoms long term relief rather than temporary short term solutions can be offered. For example if a patient came to a holistic practitioner...

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To ensure a protection to the patients a healthy setting and safety policy is essential. ... (OSHA, 2004). 1.2 Assessment of the responsibilities in a specific health and social care workplace: Legislative Behavior with patient: Honesty with the patients should be the prime concern of a organization otherwise patients may seriously affected and they lose their beliefs in a healthcare organization. The managing body of a centre must ensure patients about their actual problems completely and projected treatment otherwise failure in treatment can severely compromises patient and social trust. ...

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It is not just costly to the patient or the family of the patient, but to the government as well. ... Not having the appropriate treatment for a mental illness or disorder can harm the patient. It can cause the patient to manifest in negative behaviors. ... The U.S. currently has more mentally ill men and women in jails and prisons than in all state hospitals combined (Sigurdson). ...

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