Essays and Research Papers on Medical Issues

This 4 page paper compares the way MRIs, CTs, and mammograms work and the applications to which they are best suited. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 7 page paper discusses the many factors that can affect blood flow through the body. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 15 page paper that compares and contrasts the two industries. The writer begins with an overview of each industry, including their annual revenues, challenges and operational structures. The next section discusses the competitive issues and strategies for each industry, including the mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry and why these have become necessary. ...

A paper which looks at the potentially dehumanising effects of technology in nursing, and considers the ways in which technology can be incorporated into holistic care plans. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page research paper that examines the impact of technology on healthcare. This report shows that only a relatively small percentage of the world's population receives the benefit of high-tech innovations. Therefore the following examination of the impact on technology on health care first looks at how it is changing health practices in industrialized ...

A 4 page paper discussing the use and importance of IT at a small home health care organization. There are many improvements that could be made to the existing information system, some of which already have been planned. The goal is to design and implement a system that will provide nearly-instantaneous updates that ...

A 17 page paper. This paper was written in 1999. This version includes a 5 page annotated bibliography. The paper discuses the many different issues concerning smoking including: political, legislative and social issues, physical and economic issues, current and future actions. Although the paper was written in 1999, many of the discussions are excellent ...

This 3 page essay is written in the form of a newspaper article that informs the reading public about the basic facts of hypertension. As it is written as a newspaper article, no sources are cited.

This 3 page paper considers whether or not testosterone and other hormones can in fact be considered responsible for personality differences between men and women. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page paper examining how the Christian needs to perceive euthanasia. King David, the man after God’s own heart, wrote in Psalm 139: “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (v. 16). This is a comforting verse when lamenting the ...

A paper which compares and contrasts two journal articles on the symptoms and management of infant colic, one of which is written for the medical profession and one for the general public. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an example letter of a consumer writing to Oxford Health Plans regarding the high cost of prescription drugs. Suggestions are made and reasoning is provided to convince the insurance company to change its drug co-pay options. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper provides a first person account about how insulin figures into one's life. It is written from the perspective of a Juvenile diabetic. Some information about diabetes and new research in the field is relayed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In a paper of three pages, the author writes about the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, in sixteen month old infants. The author discusses diagnosis, and treatments as well as potential cultural difficulties. There are two sources for this paper.

A 4 page contention that while medicine is evolving to be more humanistic, physicians seem intent on maintaining a solely empirical approach to healing. The author suggests that traditional cultures and women most often prefer the humanistic approach. Age, however, is a variable factor in determining an individual's perception of the ideal role ...

This 3 page research paper, first of all, discusses type 2 diabetes mellitus and its ramifications for patients before focusing on specifically on sulfonylureas as a pharmaceutical therapy for this condition. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

5 pages containing the content of a 13-slide PowerPoint® presentation outlining the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists' requirements for continuing education and documentation. Bibliography lists 1 source. KShlthCEx-ray.rtf

This is an 11 page paper discussing the importance of student autonomy in the education of health care professionals. Health professionals within the health care environment are expected to handle autonomous decisions, independent problem solving and administration throughout their careers. When students enter medical or nursing programs however, they have had little or no exposure ...

A 3 page essay/research paper that expresses a position on the issue of whether or not professional psychological organizations should make continuing education a mandatory condition for licensing. The writer argues against this position. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page research paper which examines topics which should be covered in establishing an education program which will empower both the asthma patient and the patient's family to take control of this chronic, yet controllable disease. The writer covers such topics as creating a personalized care plan, the role of allergens, and how to ...

A 15 page paper evaluating a study conducted in the Chicago inner city designed to provide peer education to low-income families with at least one asthmatic child. The focus of the peer education was in reducing or eliminating environmental factors that contribute to asthma, such as the presence of dust mites and other allergens. The study design ...

A 7 page research paper that discusses Senate bill 2545, which would facilitate and encourage people to issue advance directives concerning end of life care. The writer discusses the history of this issue and also the current debate, as well as outlining the parameters of the bill. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 14 page review of the causes and interventions for pediatric asthma. Concentrating on identifying important information for inclusion in a peer education program in Harlem, this paper defines the conditions and delineates its impact in New York, noting that lower socioeconomic classes are apparent more at risk for the condition than other classes. ...

In six pages this paper discusses how to improve organ donations through clarification of confusion regarding the concepts of death, calming the fears that signing a donor card and offering organ donation consent encourages physicians to hasten death, and the importance of community education to change perceptions, attitudes, and to develop a more informed awareness ...

A 16 page paper providing an overview of the current state of continuing education for physicians. Not only medicine has changed in today’s world, however, so has all of education. Continuing medical education (CME) holds promise today that never existed in the past. The paper discusses characteristics of adult learners; new approaches ...