By understanding the specific physiological alterations various therapies induced, he could then select the specific treatment that would precisely alter the deviant process and restore physiological normalcy." Experimental science would allow for physicians to determine diseases and test their treatments, in order to figure out the right treatments or by trial and error. ... Before the reform of American medical schools, most medical students and physicians went to either Paris or Germany to participate in medical research and study at their laboratories. ... With an American medical sc...

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The use of animals for medical experimentation has been one of the most controversial issues in our world since the seventeenth century. ... It has helped provide antibiotics and vaccines, insulin for diabetics, treatments for leukemia, local and general anesthetics, and has made possible advances in medical technology such as blood transfusion, kidney dialysis, and the heart lung machine. ... Vernon Coleman, "One in six patients in hospitals are there because of a treatment they have taken." In America, 100,000 deaths a year are attributed to medical treatment. In one year, 1.5 million people...

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Medical Marijuana, Could We Benefit? There has been so much controversy over the issue of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in the past couple of years. ... Marijuana is also an effective treatment for AIDS patients suffering from wasting syndrome. ... This option is better than any legal treatment that we have right now for multiple sclerosis. ... While many people want to find cures for these things, they are still very against legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. ...

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This is because their families can't afford the expensive medical treatment they need and they don't get the money that the injured people makes. Luckily, worldwide organizations have programs for landmine victims that help pay for medical treatment and give the injured jobs. ... These people are doing this because that's how they get money for medical treatment. ...

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Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. ... The American Medical Association (AMA) believes that research-involving animals are absolutely essential to maintaining and improving the health of the American people. They pointed out, that virtually every advance in medical science in the 20th century has been accomplished either directly or indirectly through the use of animals in laboratory experiments. ... Without animals to help us in these ...

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Also, marijuana has numerous medicinal benefits such as helping cancer patients while they undergo treatments and bringing relief to those who suffer from other painful illnesses. ... Today, there's strong medical information that supports marijuana as helpful treatment for many medical conditions. ... In modern medical treatments, we have seen marijuana help cancer and HIV patients(Narcon International). ... As of 2012, medical marijuana has been legalized in 17 states, with several other states pending legislation (The White House; President Barack Obama, 2013). ...

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Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... That brings up the question: why not legalize marijuana as medical drug, which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine? Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California and the council committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions against the use of marijuana for "legitimate medical use." City council women Christine Kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the ...

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"In the fall of 1996, California voters approved the medical marijuana initiative (proposition 215) by a vote of 56 to 44 percent. The act is entitled The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and it's purpose is to give Californians the right to possess and cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, "where the medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of Cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which m...

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A notable case is the 1978 Bakke decision involving the University of California's rejection of the plaintiff's application for entree into the University's Medical Program. ... The Bakke Supreme Court dispute reflected the intense and widespread emotions aroused by quotas, by preferential or compensatory treatment, and by affirmative action. Four justices ruled to admit Bakke and against preferential treatment; and one, to achieve some kind of judicial consensus, upheld Bakke's claim of unfair discrimination and ordered Bakke into the medical ...

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The use of medical marijuana can be very important to a person with a serious terminal disease. While medical marijuana will not cure diseases, it will help the sick cope with pain, better then most other medications will. Here in Canada one does have access to medical marijuana, but only about 376 people have been authorized to possess marijuana, and applying for the use of medical marijuana will waste time for those who need it as soon as possible. ... The applicant must also say whether they would grow the pot, or buy it, and what other treatments they have tried to cure their disease or re...

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In case of Bakke verses University of California Regents, Bakke attempted twice to enroll in the University of California Medical School at Davis unsuccessfully. ... Bakke argued that he was kept out of University of California Medical School at Davis because he was white. ... Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. ... The prop stated, "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, p...

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Others claim that you can't stop scientific progress and that it may even be immoral to limit experimentation on animals if such work might lead to new medical treatments for some humans. ... Western cultural traditions seem to believe that our treatment of animals should be guided by different ethical standards than our treatment of humans. ...

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Research is constantly being done so treatment can be given to a variety of people. ... Throughout the course of life, human beings encounter such obstacles along the lines of health problems, physical or internal, that medical doctors immediately prescribe drugs for. ... In all other cases, normal treatment is actually beneficial to the child. ... The separate area is usually the regions that calls for treatment. ... Hopefully communication by word of mouth and medical studies will turn others onto this method of health care, and keep Chiropractors as the fastest growing profession in the...

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Supreme Court again affirmed the right of competent patients to refuse unwanted medical treatments and to receive adequate pain treatment at the end of life - even if it might hasten death(www.choices.org). ... Opponents say doctors should not play God by killing patients, but do opponents realize that by prolonging the process of death, the medical profession is doing exactly that? ... Also, sixty-eight percent thought that guidelines for withholding or withdrawing treatment should be established and forty-five percent were in favor of legislation of active euthanasia unde...

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They moved to the United States and she completed an internship in pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical Center. ... Even though proper treatment could have corrected the condition at the age of eight, she didn't have surgery until she was eighteen years old. Her condition was never properly diagnosed and delayed proper treatment at that time. Her experience made her want to dedicate her medical career to the health issues that mainly affect women and children. ... Some are illegal immigrants and can't apply to federal medical programs. ...

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He or she would simply go the emergency room, show their national healthcare card, receive treatment and go home. ... After the person receives treatment, there are also follow-up HMO phone calls and paperwork, an arduous and time-consuming task. ... The whole process of receiving emergency treatment is approaching the absurd. ... It is not uncommon for people who are insured, to refuse needed medical treatment to avoid the hassles of insurance. ... Elderly citizens often fall in between the Medicare cracks and die leaving enormous medical bills. ...

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The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. ... One of the toughest of these is what Victor Fuchs called "flat-of-the-curve medicine"- those medical procedures which are the highest in cost but achieve little or no improvement in health status. ... The treatment's worse than the disease. ... Today our medical hardware is so sophisticated that the period of suffering can be extended beyond the limit of human endurance. ... In the case of the terminally ill, that means people have the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment when it's appar...

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Under this program, people who test positive for drug usage will be required to enter a treatment program in order to receive Family Independence Assistance benefits; those who refuse to take the required drug test or refuse treatment will be denied Family Independence Assistance benefits. ... Higher tax dollars also include paying for medical care for welfare recipients as well. ... This program would provide a treatment option for those who test positive for drugs and still provide monetary assistance. Those who test positive and refuse treatment will dissolve any rights to receiving this ...

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The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. ... Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life preserving procedures and treatments that would prolong the life of one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without them. ...

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At the time a patient is diagnosed with a disease they are able to refuse treatment. ... Once a patient is informed that they have stopped responding to treatment, they should be allowed to cancel and refuse them. ... The choice to remain alive should not be made by religious groups, medical associations, or even groups who are scared that society will kill disabled people against their will, but it should be the patients. ... Patients and their families should not have to pay for expensive treatment for the terminally ill patient to only prolong their lives for a couple of days, weeks, or mon...

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Decline in death rate, better medical facilities, more people to overcome poverty, and technological advancements in fertility treatment are the four main reasons for today's population problem. ... This is due to people that used to live around sixty or seventy years and pass away because of the poorly advanced medical system to a medical system that can bring people back form death after they were gone for a minute or two. ... Overpopulation is walking up the steps brought up by better medical care, lower death rates, government handouts, and fertility treatments making the world head t...

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Case in point would be the situation in California where Proposition 215, the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes, is up for discussion between state and federal courts. ... This clause was used in California a couple months ago to decide whether marijuana should be accepted as medical treatment for patients with death-threatening ailments such as aids. ... This is a place where anyone with a verifiable recommendation for medical cannabis can go to alleviate, and over time possibly terminate, their illnesses. ... Since the approval of the proposition, marijuana has only been use...

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Common medical practice meant that physicians made decisions for their patients (patient rights). In Dani Veracity's article Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965) she relates that subjecting live human beings to science experiments that are sometimes cruel, sometimes painful, sometimes deadly and always a risk-is a major part of U.S history that would not be found in most history or science books (Veracity,Dani). ... This is because the patient is the one who must live with the consequences and deal with...

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With the American Academy of pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the CDC, the EPA, as well as doctors and scientists around the world all in agreeing that vaccines are safe, it's hard to believe there is an issue getting people to vaccinate themselves, and their children. ... Secondly, if vaccines are thought to be excessive, I would venture to say that the treatment it takes to cure a deadly and infectious disease is more than just excessive, but also extensive. Lastly, possible side effects are inconsequential in comparison to the treatment it would take to help save a child f...

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Marijuana ended up in Schedule I, defining the substance as having: a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medicinal use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of safety for use under medical supervision. ... Its medical aspects put aside, marijuana was considered dangerous and addictive. ... In 1972, a petition was made to legalize marijuana for medical patients. ... He won his case using the "medical necessity defense." ... I believe that medical marijuana is only the first step. ...

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