Essays on Family Medicine

A family clinic is a health care facility that provides primary outpatient health care services to all the family members irrespective of age, gender and even illness. These basic healthcare services provided at clinic include counseling, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment of some diseases, patient education, and health maintenance amongst others (McWhinney, & Freeman, 2009). With provision of primary healthcare, clinics then provide services at the first entry point of a patient into a health care system, this, therefore, means that to the health care industry, a clinic provides the basic health care services that a patient needs before further ...

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 ...

A care delivery process encompasses the following tasks: assessment, diagnosis, planning, and implementation. The practice of family medicine also incorporates these aspects of care process in care delivery efforts. This paper seeks to analyse health care delivery process practised in family medicine. To start with, consultation constitutes the main aspect of care delivery process in family medicine. There are several models of consultation used in family medicine practice. The Calgary Cambridge Model is the most widely employed model of consultation in family medicine practice (Bleakley, 2014). The model basically outlines five steps in conducting a consultation (Thomas & Haynes, 2005; ...

There are many definitions to the term ‘medical referral system’ by a variety of authors and scholars. A referral system, according to Almalki, FitzGerald and Clark (2011) is an institutional framework that comprehensively connects a variety of entities that have different responsibilities and duties into one network. Another definition by MOH (2016) posits that a referral system in healthcare is the “process of directing or redirecting the patient to the optimal level, usually from the lower potential levels to the greatest potential ones ensuring the access into the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, by ...

Quantitative Study

Vamos, E. P. et al. (2012). Association of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and all cause mortality in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: retrospective cohort study. British Medical Journal, 1-10. Retrieved from: http://www.bmj. com/conte nt / bmj/345/bmj.e5567.full.pdf

Research Problem and Purpose

Vamos et al. (2012) posit that maintaining a blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg is recommended for the population diagnosed with hypertension, and an even lower blood pressure of 130/80 mm Hg is recommended for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. However, clarity on the effects of the blood pressure on all-cause mortality is currently lacking.

Hypotheses and Research Questions

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Introduction

The contemporary system of medical service has its respective roots in the health care system of the 19th century, where the dominating industrialization has resulted in the occurrence and further development of scientific medicine (Connerley and Wu, 2016). From the historical point of view, medical services have been provided by anyone who possesses enough skill/knowledge to be capable of healing people. In fact the majority of those people were the women (Evetts, 2000). According to the statistics of those days, it was less than 5% of women comprising the number of physicians working in the United States. The highest ...

Part 1: Paper Proposal

The Patient- Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of care delivery that ensures the coordination of patient treatment with the primary care physician to enhance the essential care when needed, and in a way that can be understood. The objective of the PCMH is to create a centralized setting that promotes individual patients and physicians partnerships. The care services offered is enabled by registries, exchange of health information, information technology, or any viable means that guarantees patients access to care when need. Care is offered in an accepted cultural and linguistic manner. PCMH is related to the future ...

Background

Pernicious Anemia (PA) is a chronic illness that is caused by impaired absorption of vitamin B-12 due to lack of (IF) intrinsic factor in gastric secretions. It is a condition in which the body lacks a sufficient number of red blood cells (hemoglobin). Present within red blood cells, hemoglobin is important for carrying oxygen in all body tissues. Pernicious anemia is therefore a decrease in red blood cells which occurs when one’s intestines cannot absorb vitamin B12 properly. The body needs vitamin B12 to make red blood cells. Pernicious anemia is most prevalent in Caucasian people of northern European lineage than in ...

Health Care in Russia vs Health Care in the U.S.

According to the Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, the United States of America is a single developed industrial country that does not have universal health care. Instead there is a powerful health insurance system, partially funded by government through national programs. As a result 45% of total health care expenditures are spent on these programs (Sultz and Young 154). Unlike the U.S., Russian Federation has free universal medicine, and state constitution guarantees each citizen free health care services. Numerous debates rise regarding both American and Russian health care systems, their availability, effectiveness and expenditures. Each of the systems has ...

Social attitude to abortion is primarily defined by moral norms and traditions of society, living conditions. In recent decades, abortion has become one of the most intensely and diversely debated issues of the moral theory. Defenders of abortion rights and their opponents do not agree among themselves even in the terminology of the dispute. Opponents argue that the problem here is the following: whether or not the embryos should not be killed, like other human beings. Advocates believe the central question here is whether it is possible to force a woman to bear an unwanted fetus even at the cost ...

Introduction

Why was the plan proposed? Lack of enough health care facilities offering unique services contributes to the poor state-of-health care practices experienced today. Most countries concentrate on improving health care services in urban areas and forget people in the rural areas who lack necessary health care services. The advanced practice of nursing plays a significant part in meeting the future health care demands of the State of Florida in the most effective manner. The rate at which chronic diseases shorten lives of people in Florida is worrying. In order to reduce the number of deaths from chronic diseases in ...

Health care provision is a critical aspect for the growth of the nation. Quality and efficient system ensure that timely and convenient medical care is given to the people. The plan has to be formulated that incorporates the concerned parties in the field of health care provision services. These include the physicians and financial advisors to provide guidance on better payment plans. Once the plan has been created, several aspects that determine the success of the plan must be clearly stated, and necessary measures taken to ensure that they are achieved.

Difference between Patient Centered Medical Home and Health Management Organization

The need to improve services and health condition of ...

Introduction

Family medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with delivering health care services at the family level. Unlike other medical fields which with the patient individually, family medicine practitioners must incorporate the other family members in the delivery of health services. Family medicine practice is built around addressing the Ideas, Concerns and Expectations (ICEs) of the patient and the family. Family medicine practitioners should be flexible in responding to diverse medical needs of a family. Additionally, family medicine practitioners should be able to reconcile the priority areas of the patient and those derived from medicine and address them in a patient-centered way. ...

I was raised in a small city with a developing health care system. Growing up I observed many people struggling to get their basic health care requirements met. Seeing my mother struggle to have access to basic preventative medicine or get a simple physical examination created a strong and lasting impression on me. The provision of basic medical care is important insofar as it staves of advanced disease and insures productive, healthy members of society that can make positive contributions. The physicians whom I had the opportunity to interact with were extremely busy as they were trying to positively affect the patients that ...

I was raised in a large family made up of many healthcare professionals. I’ve dreamed of becoming a family practitioner since I was young a child. Unfortunately, I witnessed my grandfather dying from small cell lung cancer most likely related to his 60-year smoking habit. My aunt suffered from repeated infections that were barely cured by any of the medications prescribed to her due to her type II diabetes. All this anguish, and struggle with disease didn’t fade with time, but were rather deeply etched into my heart and psyche, and reinforced my desire to pursue family medicine as a career ...

Looking back, that team of doctors who saved the lives of our mother and new brother provided the trigger that embarked me on my future medical career. They showed me that there is no more noble nor rewarding profession than to practice as a physician. By virtue of diligent studies and overcoming obstacles along the way, my earlier dreams of becoming a physician subsequently became a reality. In my homeland I completed medical school and a residency, then worked for four years in community health as an attending physician, caring for patients who lacked the means to obtain treatment in private clinics – a ...

Who Interest Primary Care

According to KECK School of Medicine of USC (2012), primary care interest group brings health promotions, care, cure and prevention together making it the most friendly and preferred population health system interaction. Primary care student group may include the aging interest group, pediatric interest group, internal medicine interest group; improve health care interest group, family interest group and Integrative medicine interest group. Also special interest group and community interest groups are include in the student groups. Traditionally, community interest groups determined the direction of the primary health care across the world because it involved the patients and the ...

Personal Statement

Having the power to aid people in their suffering, to alleviate pain and put a smile on a terminal patient’s face are powers granted to the special, select few, who have devoted themselves and their lives altruistically to putting the needs of others before their own. It is a vocation of inestimable and time-consuming challenges, and simultaneously, one of empathy and selfless aid. I must admit that before tragedy struck my life and in his dying moments, my father proved he would always be my guiding star, I was not certain if I possessed all the necessary traits one requires to ...

Evidence Based Practice for Type 2 Diabetes in the United States

I. Introduction Type 2 Diabetes is a prevalent chronic disease. It is currently the fastest growing disease in the world (Franz & Splett,2007).The health burden of diabetes as it currently stands is that the prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes is high among people aged above 25 (Narayan , et al., 2009). This segment of the demography is highly productive and dependable for the growth of the global economy (Narayan, et al., 2009). For every one person diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, there is one other person who goes undiagnosed. Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, ...

Personal statement

I have developed an interest in family medicine as a result of my personal as well as professional experiences in the past few years. I am currently a 4th year medical student at the Medical University of the Americas. I believe that the field of family medicine requires genuine interest, commitment, and the capability to communicate and associate with patients of diverse age groups. These qualities perfectly describe me; I am passionate about becoming a family physician, I have empathy and strong interpersonal and communication skills. Having a very supportive family, I want my patients to feel like extended members of my family as ...

Betancourt, J.R., Green, A.R., Carrillo, J.E., & Ananeh-Firempong, O. (2003). Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. Public Health Reports 118: 293.

Betancourt et al. (2003) chose to study the effects of certain interventions in health care to dispel racial and ethnic disparities that are accepted to occur within the healthcare system. The objective is to ultimately find a framework that equalizes and eliminates these disparities; the researchers hypothesize that a framework of their devising could address these disparities and implement equitable health care regardless of ethnicity or race. A literature review was conducted ...