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Sebastian Pimentel 12-9-2012 Rypma U.S History Medicine and sanitation during the civil war During the Civil War many practices of sanitation were ignored and forgotten about, and medicine was very primitive during this time. It is said that half of the deaths that occurred during the war were because of injuries and or disease. The way that doctors would preform surgical procedures was rather disgusting if you don’t mind me saying but then again I don’t blame them because they didn’t know any better at the time. They would preform surgeries on almost the same table/bed without cleaning it at all. It was said that doctors would inspect large open wounds with their bare hands.
Do Children Living below the Poverty Level have adequate Health Insurance? Abstract This paper goes over children living in poverty and whether they have access to adequate health insurance. The paper compiles statistics on uninsured children; researches the Medicaid laws that congress has passed and covers the effects that lack of health insurance has on children. Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line, and many children are living without any health coverage. The unemployment level in our country has nearly doubled since 2007, and children can be some of the hardest hit it our economy.
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1 Literature Search: Wrong Site Surgery Yashate Manning Maria Quimba Grand Canyon University: NRS-433V Introduction to Nursing Research October 28, 2012 2 Joint Commission revises universal protocol, clarifies who marks site. (2008). Same-Day Surgery, 32(8), 81.http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=2009992507&site=ehost-live&scope=site Abstract: Joint Commission has revised the “Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Person Surgery.” Surgeons don’t have to be the ones who mark the site; however, the site must be marked by someone who is participating in the procedure. The marking must
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In order to decrease the abuse of prescription medications we must understand where these drugs are coming from, what their effects are on the mind and body, as well as what can be done to prevent these drugs from getting into the wrong hands. The prescription drug epidemic had a good run due to the lack of information regarding their true dangers but with more readily available data and thousands of cases to help back it up, one can only hope abuse will begin to decline in the years to follow. Prescription drug abuse can be defined as someone taking a medication prescribed to them or acquired some other way for a reason or in a method other than that suggested by a doctor.