1. Medical Literacy
Such tests are unnecessary because they cannot detect impairment and, thus, in no way enhance an employer's ability to evaluate or predict job performance. " (aclu online) Aviation is a major industry in Wichita, and the FAA has strict guidelines for drug testing not only for pilots but also for employees. ...
For the last three hundred years Western civilization has been shaped by a rational, scientific, mechanistic world view of Orthodox medicine. Undoubtedly, this view has provided us with many life saving and enhancing benefits. Infectious diseases are becoming a notion of the past as more and more ar...
When the Civil War began, neither the Union nor the Confederacy was prepared for the level of destruction that warfare would bring. Neither side could have predicted that 600,000 men would die as a result of this conflict. After the first Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, both sides realized that t...
By the first of the year (1993) the rise in annual health care cost was up to 6.4 percent and, although the figures for the percent of GDP were not available for 1993, the percent GDP for 1994 was 13.6 percent with that percentage predicted to rise to 14.9 percent by the year 2002 (Ginzberg, 1994). ...
During a study done comparing suicide rates to cancer diagnoses in California between the years 1997-2006, finding showed that there was a total of 1,168 reported suicides in 1,123,528 cancer patients. The study found that cancer patients had a 2.3 times higher suicide rate than the general populati...
The Canadian health care system was founded on an egalitarian principle of shared values, and respect for individuals as ends in themselves. The idea of Medicare as a publicly funded, and equally shared health insurance system was established in Saskatchewan by premier Tommy Douglas in 1946. Initially administered to great success within the province, the provisions of Medicare were quickly assimilated at a federal level, and in 1957 became legislation under the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act. This first step towards universal health care offered provincial governments a fifty...
Medicines, household products, food, and basically everything involved in the life of an average person has to under go a form of testing before it is legal to be placed on a shelf and if available to the public. The same tests are performed on every medical procedure that is introduced to surgeons....
Pikert says, "When the CBO estimated the effects of a Medicare expansion in 2008, it predicted that some Americans who would have previously stayed in the workforce to ensure they had health coverage would retire earlier, knowing they could buy into the public insurance program"(3). ...
