MEMO From: Joshua A. Burger (Gibbs), Phlebotomist, Genesys Regional Medical Center To: Office of Susan K. Kolka, Hospital Administrator, Genesys Regional Medical Center Subject: Excessive needlestick complaints and proposed corrective action 11/11/2009 Introduction Statement of Problem Inpatients of Genesys Regional Medical Center are complaining of excessive needlesticks during their stay at our facility. After receiving dozens of complaints, policy changes were made to allow the patients to receive a heparin lock as standard procedure, but the complaints continued. To promote patient comfort, safety, and well being, the hospital needs to take immediate action to reduce the number of needlesticks that our patients must endure
Also, Amgen encouraged doctors to switch Medicare and Medicaid patients to Aranesp, then bill Medicare and Medicaid for Aranesp. These practices went on while Aranesp was available to public healthcare plans for free. Amgen illegally offered doctors cash, exotic vacations, and performance-based rebates to engage in these fraudulent activities to increase sales. (Admin, n.d.) Shawn O’Brien was a senior project manager who was hired to improve the company compliance process with FDA reporting. O’Brien determined the inconsistency and lack of reporting complaints about the drug to the FDA.
The Effect of Computerizing Physician Orders to Prevent Medication Errors Background: Medication errors at the time of hospital admissions and discharges are common and can lead to preventable errors. The objection of this paper is to show how computerizing physician orders can help alleviate that problem and reduce it remarkably. Problem: The pt. was given the wrong dosage of 2 weeks supply of medication. Solution: Computerizing Physician Order Entry Proposed Improvement Plan: I choose this cause because it happen so often at my facility that pts.
This gives the audience an emotional response mainly anger, hatred towards the American healthcare companies, sympathy towards the afflicted and fear of being one of the victims of American healthcare system. Although Moore uses pathos as the film’s main rhetorical appeal, ethos and logos were also used to compel the audience (insured/uninsured) in order to support Moore’s argument that America needs universal healthcare. The scene initiates with using pathos by presenting several uninsured or insured people who have to experience agony and at the same time pay expensive hospital bills. For instance, uninsured people like Rick who has to endure with the pain not only by having two of his fingers sawn, but he also has to choose which of his fingers will be attached. Either way his surgery is pricey ranging from eight to twelve thousand dollars.
2. Doctors: Upon researching if China doctors had any oath to adhere to, I found the following: According to One-Stop (2015), Do Chinese doctors take the Hippocratic Oath? A rough, abridged translation of the oath is: “People entrust their health and lives to us. Hence, I vow to devote myself to medical science and to love my people and country. I vow to abide by medical ethics, to relieve people of the pain of illness, to improve their health and to honor the sanctity of the science.
The article Management of Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain and Myocardial Infarction : A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Acute Cardiac Care Committee of the Council on Clinical Cardiology (Circulation. 2008), impresses the importance of ascertaining whether the patient has been using cocaine in connection with reported chest pain because the therapeutic interventions will be completely different. If the patient fails to self-report drug use it is important to use diagnostic testing, such as a urine analysis, to determine the presence of cocaine. Patients with cocaine-associated chest pain, unstable angina,or MI should be treated similarly to those with ACS, with some exceptions. Unlike patients with ACS unrelated to cocaine use, cocaine users should be provided with intravenous benzodiazepines as early management.
Some suffer severe long-term medical problems. Racism and discrimination have been linked to several different medical problems. In (2003) William et al linked racism and discrimination to” psychological distress”. Psychogenic pain, internal conflict and external stress that prevent people from self-actualization and connecting with other people. In (2003) Brondolo et al linked racism and discrimination to “hypertension” or as we know it high blood pressure in African Americans.
Both sources convey the reaction to the report to a certain extent but the reliability of both sources remains questionable. Own knowledge missing
et al (2000). Problems in patient safety are due to, as Kohn L. et al (2000) stated, many kinds of adverse events (“any unintended or unexpected event that could or did lead to harm for one or more patients” cited by Milligan F. et al (2005)) in patient safety that may occur during the course of providing health care. If truth be told, it “estimates that tens of millions of patient world-wide suffer disabling injuries or death every year due to unsafe medical care” WHO (2008). Such events that are mentioned by Kohn L. et al (2000) include transfusion errors, adverse drug events (ADE), wrong site of surgery and surgical injuries, preventable suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, hospital-acquired or other treatment related infections, falls, pressure ulcers and mistaken identity. It is thought that more than two-thirds or about 70% of these adverse events are preventable that is why patient safety has become increasingly important in Health Care.
Insomnia In Chinese Medical Science Hank 宛北辰 12-B In Chinese Medical Science, doctors believe that the human body is composed by five elements, metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Base on this foundation, Chinese traditional doctors discovered that any illnesses, including insomnia and any others, are caused by the unbalance of the five elements. So, in order to cure the illnesses, their job is to balance the five elements (#1) and maintains the equilibrium amount them. In order to achieve that, Chinese doctors invented three different methods, the Yin Wei Therapy, the Viscera Therapy and the Yin Yang Therapy. (#2) This time, I would mainly discuss the Insomnia treatment in the Yin Wei Therapy.