Essays on Ailment

In this week’s reading we examined the subject of the medicalization of deviance. While it might sound complex, the idea behind the medicalization of deviance is quite simple. In essence, it refers to the recatholicization of an uncommon behavior from being labelled or understood as deviant to being thought of as an illness. Accordingly, rather than classifying a person who is afflicted with the uncommon behavior as deviant, which can produce a wide range of negative reactions and actions from people not so afflicted; the person is deemed to be ill. Accordingly, as an illness is widely seen ...

Following the case study of "healing and autonomy," while observing the Christian narrative; it involves a family of four. There are grappling with their son's acute illness that is kidney failure. The problem can only now be addressed through an organ transplant whereby in case it fails, he will succumb to the disease. The family comprises of parents Joanne and Mike and the two boys who are twins Samuel and James aged eight years. In the case, a spiritual conundrum and health care have emerged, and it puts the family in a dilemma in deciding what to do for ...

Introduction

Sickle Cell Anemia or Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited blood ailment. Those suffering from Sickle Cell Disease have abnormal S/ sickle hemoglobin in the red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in the blood that aids in carrying oxygen throughout the body. The ailment takes its appellation from the shape of the red blood cells of a person affected by Sickle Cell Disease, which have the shape of a sickle. They are stiff and adhesive rather than a disk like normal cells. The misshapen cells tend to get trapped in the small blood vessels hindering the movement of ...

Acute abdominal ache can be grouped in multiple procedures. The most regular procedure is by splitting the sources into two major categories; nonsurgical pain versus surgical, and extra abdominal versus intra-abdominal causes. A range of conditions, which vary from self-limited and benign ailment to surgical crises, might generate acute abdominal ache. An optimal tactic to detect the rationale for abdominal ache should depend on the probability of complaints, disease, and other aspects of laboratory tests, patient history, imaging studies, and findings on bodily examination (Adams, 2013). The biliary ailment is the top course for acute gastric surgery amid the ...

Norovirus in Vermont

On the 3rd of February 2004, the Vermont Department of Health (VDH) was advised of a few people who had severe gastroenteritis in the wake of going to a private indoor swimming facility over the previous weekend (Podewils et al. 2007, p. 827). Reported side effects were intense onset retching, looseness of the bowels, and sickness and by and large happened inside 12–36 h of going to the office and kept going up to 2 days (Hall et al. 2011). A far-reaching investigation and assessment of the pools and pool support frameworks were led by the Vermont Department ...

Abstract

Executive Coaching is a relatively new Human Resource Development process aimed at helping a client to reach his full potential in an organization. This process consists of preparing him to execute the responsibilities of a leader, a decision maker, change facilitator as well as guiding him to deal with the stress, maintain a work life balance and develop an ethical approach towards his work. Although the profession of an executive coach does not need a specific academic degree or practice license like the well established profession of a Psychologist, there are some distinct similarities between the two which have ...

Abstract

There are several heart illnesses which cause a large number of deaths from stroke, coronary artery disease, aortic and peripheral illnesses. The treatment of the illnesses requires a huge amount of funds and time. Therefore, there is the need to improvise or innovate new ways to prevent or detect it on earlier. The sophisticated mechanism needs to be put in place to analyze medical data to give signs of the illness through the application of analytic algorithms to provide definite signs. Technology is evolving bringing about significant changes in the medical industry, especially in electronic health records. It has ...

Biological factors that might account for Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is ranked as one of the most severe mental ailments in different parts of the world. A person in 100 individuals develops the illness over a life span. It can develop any time but commonly shows up in the late teens to mid-20s. In addition, it is common in both males and females. Physicians are now embracing that, its results are dimensional across interlinked areas of signs; severity, functional or social disability, medication, employment and management factors. To describe and diagnose the philosophy of this disorder, numerous modern strategies have been suggested, since the prototype explanation by Kraepelin. ...

Why I choose AcuCare Centre?

As a part of the field assignment, I visited the AcuCare Centre, 12133 Pembroke Road, Pembroke Pines, FL33025. I choose this particular place for my assignment, as I wanted to know about the method of “healing through touch”, as I would call it. Reiki is an alternative medicine that is sought by many for stress and chronic diseases. My aunt is particularly supportive of the center and has recommended it to me. She has sought alternative medicine to treat her migraine problems. She found allopathic medicine ineffective and replete with side effects.

Initial impression of the center:

On entering the center, there was a ...

Nemesis, a novel by Philip Roth, gives a protagonist view of what is good, and what is wrong in the lives of human beings. Moreover, the novel gives an opposing view on a religious basis, but the antagonism is set in a virtual or imaginary basis, as the main character, Bucky, contradicts the view of others by supernatural eventualities. Moreover, Bucky is faced with vast guilt that alienated him from his life (Roth 21). Apparently, the author depicts that Bucky has poor eyesight and natural defect that makes him unfit to serve his country during the World War 2. ...

Re: Funding for the Alzheimer’s House

Dear Sir, As the director of the Alzheimer’s House, it is my mission to deliver the best kind of care to our patients with Alzheimer’s condition. Along with this mission is my vision to have a facility equipped with all types of materials that would be beneficial in conducting their therapy. In my desire to offer quality care, I researched some of the latest alternative therapies for our patients. In my research, I found some of the best equipment, games, and activities that are age-appropriate and stage-appropriate to our patients.

1. Aroma Stone Diffuser – Cobalt Blue [$60.00] ...

Models of abnormality are frameworks that assist in explaining the behavioral, cognitive, biological and psychodynamics of individuals (Sue, Sue & Sue). Additionally, the models help to explain why illnesses occur and the treatments associated with these illnesses. Each model presents a different approach to resolving the psychological illness that an individual may be going through. For the purposes of this paper, the behavioral and cognitive models will be discussed, compared and contrasted.

Behavioral Model

The behavioral model in psychology is typically expressed as an alternative to the conventional medical frameworks that are used to explain individual behaviors. The therapies that are governed ...

Summary of the Case Study File

introduction Illness and diseases are part and parcel of humanity since time immemorial. In each age, there has always been a way of dealing with the most common disease at that particular time. Trial and error have been the most common methods that were used in the traditional ways. The results also formed the basis in which the doctors could concentrate their studies to come up with better drugs. The trend is not way different from the modern days. The changes are that there have come up sophisticated technologies that have facilitated research and the production of medicinal drugs ...

Introduction

My position about the issue of medical marijuana is that if scientific research has proved that indeed marijuana has some medicinal content that can be used to cure ailments, and then there is no problem, it should be embraced just like any other medicine. People should use medicine regardless of where it is got from, so long as it can treat a particular ailment, everyone should feel free to use it. All the same, people do not know the source and raw materials of all the medicines that they use; therefore there is no cause for alarm when marijuana ...

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness because of its symptoms. Patients who not only hallucinate but also are quite paranoid could inflict harm not only on their own lives and well-being rather; their negative traits could also influence badly on the lives of those close by. Because of the same paranoia, these patients are quite likely to shut themselves out from the rest of the world and to choose social isolation. These situations could be quite problematic for not just the patient rather for the people that surround him/her as well. Considering how many people suffer from the mental ...

A recent study demonstrated that most people depend on media as the primary source of health information (WHO Ebola Response Team, 2014). Consequently, this contributes significantly to the improvement of fitness and knowledge among the public. The health messages come from different mass media channels based on the needs of the reader. However, such information falls under scrutiny due to allegations of its reliability and clarity to the audience processing the messages. Survey analysis indicates that the media coverage relies partially on statistics findings from reports published about medical trial results and disease incidences. Thus, they are bound to ...

The prevalence of breast cancer in the world has prompted various research efforts in an attempt to understand the illness. The devastating result of its development as witnessed in increased mortality has motivated the development of new diagnostic and treatment approaches to be adopted to reduce its prevalence (Lenk, 2009). For this reason, various researchers have focused their studies on how to treat this deadly ailment. Some of these researchers are Gabriel Hortobagyi and Alastair Wood. This paper will carry out a qualitative analysis and critique of their work on the treatment of breast cancer.

Problem Statement

The clinical problem of ...

Medical health insurance in the American society is an issue that requires continued reforms and improvements. The majority of Americans are confused with the many private insurance plans available that are not standard for ease of understanding (Austin, 2010). Despite the fact that we have the private and government-funded insurance plans, most Americans believe that the private insurance plans take good care of their medicals needs in a much better way than the government plans. With the increasing medical costs and the many ailments that are in the society today, every person requires having insurance that will cater for ...

Healthy behaviors play a key role in daily life. Yet, certain unhygienic practices tend to interfere with the health and induce a risk to the overall life. These practices could be high-fat diet, alcohol, and smoking. There is a need to know much about these. In such context, the present description deals with a topic “ What will kill you first, a smoking, a high-fat diet or alcohol?”.

Health -related risk factors:

A risk factor is any quality, trademark or presentation of a person that improves the probability of building up an ailment or damage. A few illustrations of the more vital danger elements ...

Hypertension is a health issue which is mostly associated with men and, as such, women are considered safe from its development. However, this myth has been disrupted following various researches that reveal that HBP is not a gender issue affecting both men and women. However, men were found to be more susceptible to developing the illness than compared to women. In this regard, women were also found prone to developing the ailment on the basis of various factors that will be discussed in this paper. In addition, this paper will focus on hypertension in women and the clinical studies ...

According to Lara (2011), asthma is a lifelong illness that is characterized by aspects involving wheezing, coughing, and irritations. In this instance, the ailment is caused by the inflammation of the bronchi located in an individual’s lungs. Upon inflammation, the airways become blocked and thereby leading to increased difficulty in breathing. Asthma is deadly, owing to the increasing prevalence of the illness among both the adult and children population. Asthma is identified as one of the most chronic illnesses affecting children, approximately 6.3 million individuals (CDC, 2011). In this regards, almost 24% of children ranging from 5 to ...

Medical professionals are often confronted with issues surrounding malpractice and negligence. Sanbar (2007) defines malpractice as negligence committed by a professional and which results in imposing physical, emotional, mental harm and/or financial losses as a result of his/her actions. This paper will assess three cases affecting nurses in relation to malpractice and negligence. In a Rhode Island hospital, a baby boy born healthy had a few difficulties during breastfeeding. For this reason, the hospital’s pediatrician ordered for the supplementation of the baby’s feed with formula milk. Unfortunately, this order was not followed and as such the baby ...

Steele, Anne. "Bumble Bee Recalls Tuna for Possible Contamination." Wall Street Journal 17 March 2016. file:///C:/Users/Kingston%20University/Downloads/Bumble%20Bee%20Recalls%20Tuna%20for%20Possible%20Contamination%20-%20WSJ.pdf. 1 Bumble Bee Tuna Recall Can

Problem

Situation It has been reported that some cans of tuna contain containments that are unsafe for most people and need to be recalled.

Results

Bumble Bee Foods, LLC reported today that it is intentionally reviewing 3 particular UPC codes of canned Chunk Light fish because of procedure deviations that happened in a co-pack office not claimed or worked by Bumble Bee. These deviations were a piece of the business ...

Diabetes is an ailment that is a consequence of uncontrolled levels of insulin in the body. In this regards, the two types of diabetes differ in terms of their reaction to insulin. Type 1 diabetes occurs as a result of the body’s attack on its own immune system thereby providing a hostile environment for cells responsible for the development of insulin. On the other hand, type 2 diabetes occurs as a result of the production of insufficient amounts of insulin as required by body organs. As such, the inadequate levels are supplemented by medication such as insulin injections ...

Simple healthcare information systems

Healthcare information systems are used to solve a myriad of activities. There are various processes that need to be undertaken and therefore need automation. There are complex and simple information systems that are used to undertake these processes. Some of the simple systems that are found include systems that are used to monitor the number of employees who attended a meeting. Another example of a simple information system that is used in general includes a system that is used to get the arrival and departure time of employees in an organization. The third simple system is that one which is used to store ...