Using Material from Item 2B and elsewhere, asses the view that an ageing population creates problems for society. Many western societies such as the United Kingdom are experiencing the social, political and economic issues that are associated with an ageing population. Rising life expectancy poses a number of problems. People are living longer due to medical advancements (including the NHS) and improved sanitation. This has resulted in more services being needed to support the continually ageing population.
Analytical Essay: “Healing the Hospital Hierarchy” On the day of March 16, 2013, Theresa Brown’s newspaper article entitled “Healing the Hospital Hierarchy” was published in the New York Times online newspaper. This article mostly focuses patients who do not get the procedures and treatments required because some medical professionals are more concerned about their ranking. In the article, it is explained how physicians are ranked higher and nurses are below them, even though nurses spend more time with the patients than doctors, and yet their opinion is overlooked, either because the doctor doesn’t care or the nurse is afraid to speak up. Physicians only come in for a small amount of time and because they are ranked higher than the nurses,
This will also increase the amount of people that are retired from 12 percent of the United States population to almost 20 percent. With the rise of the aging population there is a need for more professional health and social service expertise. According to the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, the is a shortage of health care professionals to care for the aging population in the current time and this number will grow faster as the Baby Boomers retire. One of the fastest growing employment sectors would be the eldercare. .
For example, a common reason why patients don’t take their medicines is simply forgetfulness. Another significant barrier is the inability to understand and act on instructions for taking the medication. In fact, a study found that 60 percent or more of patients being followed could not correctly report what their physicians told them about medication use 10 to 80 minutes after receiving the information. (talkaboutrx.org) Some major ethical issues that involve Jerry just taking the patient at their word and filling a prescription; Jerry could lose his license to practice nursing. If Jerry loses his license he will more than likely not be able to practice nursing again.
Some doctors report that they feel obligated to provide a prescription to a patient, even when the cause of the illness is not yet proven to be bacterial (Bersch, 2010). In some countries, antibiotics are available without a prescription, further flooding the population with inappropriate medications without proper dosing and length of therapy (WHO, n.d.). This issue seems almost impossible to remedy, because in countries where access to medical care is limited, patients would otherwise die of simple infections if not for easy access to
This practice focuses on integrating the mind, the body as well as the spirit to deter and treat diseases and health conditions (National Institutes of Health, 2010). This practice also has very little scientific evidence to support just how effect it can be as the clinical trials attesting its effectiveness is few and limited. According to University of Vermont (2006), “Ayurveda is both a complementary and an alternative medicine and is one of the oldest healing systems used for centuries” (para 6, p.1). A diet pill called Ephedra is used as a form of conventional treatment to assist with individuals who are obese. Although the use of Ephedra may have many side effects and weight that was lost may resurface, it is still effective in assisting those who are struggling with obesity.
For example, through the Socratic seminar I was able to learn that there isn’t a clear definition of bioethics or informed consent. It is really hard to define theses two key terms from the book. Informed consent could be about a lot of things. It could describe the medical procedure used, what’s its purpose, what is the significance of the results from the procedure, the financial value, and as well as the post procedure follow-up. Although the Socratic seminar and the novel left many questions unanswered for me, it made me understand more why things are they way they are in the healthcare and scientific research industries.
Such plans must include, where relevant, the risks of abuse and diversion. 55 56 By contrast, herbal products and other dietary supplements are subject to a far lesser degree of supervision. Composition and quality are uncertain; clinical data on safety and efficacy are limited; and physicians generally do not feel qualified to opine about specific products’ risks and benefits for particular medical conditions. 57 Various scholars have suggested that the FDA should more stringently regulate many dietary supplements. 58 Generally, dietary supplements are ingested orally and lack abuse potential.
E., & Moore, J. (2007), a large number of studies in many markets over many years have consistently shown that medical care managed and financed through an HMO costs 10 to 20 percent less than under indemnity insurance. Most of the savings are due to two factors; the ability to obtain lower prices by contracting for large volumes of hospital, physician, laboratory, and pharmacy services, and a substantial reduction in the number of hospital days per 1,000 enrollees. The reduction in hospital days is somewhat offset by a greater use of ambulatory physician services and outpatient surgery among HMOs, but because these substitutes are less expensive than inpatient services, overall dollar savings are realized even when the quantity of services used stays the same or increases. Although managed care has been shown to reduce costs, it is probably not the answer to all of America’s health care problems.
Jaclyn Wallace Byron Corbin Medical Billing August 27, 2011 Medical coding is the act of transcribing or translating regular language into medical documentation reports. Diagnoses and procedures are, for instance, assigned a medical code number (Xu et al., 2007). The medical codes are supposed to be universal but because there is human interpretation involved, it is extremely difficult to assure complete accuracy. There are many constructs in the medical coding environment. One has already been cited, human interpretation of regular or ordinary language.