Naturopathic Philosophy Case Analysis Essay Word Count: 1070 The time spent in consultation with a patient is one of the biggest differences between naturopathy and conventional medicine. In order to establish a detailed understanding of the patient’s current health a thorough medical history as well as a look at their diet and lifestyle habits needs to be taken. There are six fundamental healing principles that underpin the practice of naturopathy. Three of those principles are Vis Medicatrix Naturae – The Healing Power of Nature, Primum Non Nocere – First Do No Harm and Tolle Totem – Treat the Whole Person. Each of these principles directly relates to the need for a naturopath to collect in-depth information from patients in the initial consultation.
The Bio-medical model has several assumptions that are accurate; it defines health as a biological normality it also believes that illnesses and disease are caused by an identifiable factor such as a faulty gene or virus. The model believes that illness is a temporary condition producing a physical symptom and that it should be identified and classified by a medical official not a non-expert. It is common for the experts that follow the bio-medical model to focus solely on diagnosing the symptoms of their patient leaving no room for dispute between the doctor and the patient. Illness and disease has cures and treatments usually from removing the cause, medicine is seen as the way to solve health problems, and the health of society is seen as dependant on the state of medical knowledge and the availability of medical resources. The main strengths of the bio-medical model is that it stresses the importance of trying to find the cause of illness and disease; there is a wealth of evidence that support the bio-medical approach, including successful operations, cancer screenings and immunisation programmes.
How much does mangrove conservation help the Rainbow Parrotfish juvenile? Alex Pizarro Pizarro, Abstract/Introduction; Page 2 This research paper will cover, first, the ecology of the Rainbow Parrotfish and mangrove trees. The ecology will include their natural range and the reason they are being threatened with extinction. I will then cover the reasons why saving the Rainbow Parrotfish and the mangrove trees is important. I will include their Biological, Intrinsic, and Economic Values.
Before I had read this chapter, I had only heard of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). However, there are also three other types of health plan options available. Those plans include, Indemnity Plan, Point-of-service, and Consumer-driven- health plan. The Indemnity plan allows you to choose any provider with little or no cost containment. This plan has coinsurance, higher costs, and deductibles along with preauthorization for certain procedures and preventative care is normally not covered.
With MS being such a variable disease with no concrete evidence as to the cause doctors, have to use various strategies in making a proper diagnosis. These procedures include but are not limited to a full neurological examination including an MRI, and spinal fluid analysis using a spinal tap. An MRI or Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a preferred method of diagnosing and monitoring the disease as the MRI offers the most noninvasive and most sensitive way of looking at the central nervous system. There are two types of scan they are T1 weighted and T2 weighted. An MRI does not use radiation but measures the water content in tissue and since the myelin that protects the nerve fibers made of fatty tissue and repels water the MRI looks for these areas that are now holding water.
Medicine in our life Hello to everybody. Today our topic is medicine. Of course everybody knows that there is traditional medicine that is hospital, doctors, drugs, injections, surgery, in some cases chemotherapy [ˌkiːməu'θerəpɪ], sometimes this things frighten people and sometimes people don’t believe traditional medicine or they tried everything. So, there is another way to treat yourself, for instance, alternative medicine such as hypnotherapy, colour therapy, and the last one is acupuncture. At first, I would like to talk about colour therapy.
M1 - Assess the biomedical and socio-medical models of health The biomedical model of health "The biomedical model of illness and healing focuses on purely biological factors, and excludes psychological, environmental, and social influences. This is considered to be the dominant, modern way for health care professionals to diagnose and treat a condition in most Western countries. Most health care professionals do not first ask for a psychological or social history of a patient; instead, they tend to analyse and look for biophysical or genetic malfunctions. The focus is on objective laboratory tests rather than the subjective feelings or history of the patient." (Wise geek) This is the model of health that has over taken the way medication, treatment and diagnoses is done in many Western countries.
University of Phoenix Material Complementary Healing Therapies Chart Complete the following table using information from your text and other sources. |Treatment Modality |Philosophy and Principles of Therapy |Potential Benefits of Therapy | |Acupuncture |Is the oldest healing practice in the world and is part of |Helps to eliminate pain such as back pain, joint pain, neck| | |traditional Chinese medicine. The practice aims to restore |pain, headache, osteoarthritis of the knees. | | |health and through stimulating different points of the body.| | | |Since some pain is triggered from the
A person without any disease may feel unhealthy and simply have the perception of having a disease. It's the mind, body and spirit working together in perfect harmony. An illness is an impaired, abnormal state within the body. | PersonPerson refers to all human beings. People are the recipients of nursing care and they usually include the individuals, families, communities,
TYPES OF ADVANCED DIRECTIVE According to information provided by University of Washington School of Medicine, there are two broad categories of Advance Directives: 1) Instructive – It allows for preferences regarding the provision of particular therapies or classes of therapies. It includes Living Wills, no CPR, and no Transfusion directives as well. 2) Proxy – It allows for a designation of a surrogate medical decision maker of the patient’s choosing, generally a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC). ETHICAL AND LEGAL DILEMMAS Advance directive is very helpful when it comes to patient’s will. But as there are benefits of having such choices, there are ethical and legal issues as well that may arise even after the advance directive is