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In her essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”, Joanna Mackay explains how legalizing kidney sales would be beneficial in more ways than one; saving the lives of patients willing to buy kidneys, and with legal compensation, helping to end poverty in the countries of those willing to sell. In her essay, Mackay explains that even though there are nearly 350,000 people suffering from end-stage renal disease, an almost always-fatal disease, treatment options are limited exclusively to transplant and dialysis. Though effective, dialysis is an expensive and painful process, making the patient dependent on a machine for the rest of their life. Transplant, however, is far more successful; new equipment and anti-rejection treatments make it an incredibly safe and effective procedure. When a matching donor can’t be found within immediate family members, patients must wait for a kidney from deceased donors, such as old age or accident victims.
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That is why the government needs to step in and offer a grant for these companies to dig deeper into their studies and come up with something that has less side effects. “One CNN source estimates the cost of the REGN727 clinical trials to be in the billions of dollars (Curley, Ann, CNN, 2012). This means that the price of the drug is going to be dangerously high. If the government can step in now and offer some money to reduce the cost on the company the drug will be less expensive and everyone who needs it will be able to afford
Although the company has several strengths it also has its weaknesses, such as low contribution of large case pension segments and overdependence on the US market. Inefficient cost structure is also a disadvantage of the organization. Since Aetna is one of the largest health insurance competitors it has several opportunities The company has the opportunity to expand medical business and explore universal health care. This will also enable them to retain a positive outlook for their global life and health insurance market. Aetna also has been afforded the opportunity to launch a line of new products and service offering as well as invest in mobile solutions.
These abbreviations certainly save time and can expedite care, but they can also cause a multitude of problems. Abbreviations for differing medicines can be mistaken, Medical errors are typically caused by illegible writing and misrepresentations of some types of abbreviations when providing treatments or filling a prescription. As a result health care agencies, such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations have required hospitals and other medical facilities to create a list of unacceptable abbreviations. Many facilities are also discouraging the use of abbreviations in medical records and documentation. Standardization is paramount and will require practice changes for all healthcare providers.
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On the other hand, advanced laparoscopy is a skill that may not come easily to all despite effort and we look to robotics and other innovative instruments to make the skill accessible to more surgeons. It is hoped that Moore’s law of technology and economies of scale (4) will drive the costs down to democratize the adoption of innovative instruments and robotic technology. In drug development however, we are seeing the reverse effect with costs of drug development doubling every nine years and the fruit of new pharmaceutical products out of reach of the majority of the world’s population; this effect was ironically dubbed Eroom’s law(5). Likewise, though spatial cramming can be improved on electronic circuitry, the actual cost of product development for hardware rises steadily and we watch sadly as the price tags of each new surgical tool rise and our hopes of unfettered use sag inversely. Truly free markets will ensure the