Essays on Health and Medicine

... be shortening that person's life. Putting a person to death in a peaceful manner is called euthanasia. Euthanasia is an ancient word that means "easy death." There is also the issue of morality. Would killing someone by their own will or suicide be a moral act? What about a patient that is suffering from cancer? Is it moral to let that person suffer? These are some of the many questions people have been trying to answer for year without success. Euthanasia is a very uncomfortable subject to talk about for most people because who wants to think about having to kill oneself or a person that is dear to his or her life. Even though nobody wants to go thr ...

... encompasses New Westminster (local health area 40), Burnaby (local health area 41), the Tri-Cities (local health area 43), including Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore and Belcarra, and Ridge Meadows (local health area 42) which includes Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. The SFHR serves a region of 350,000 hectares and services a population base of 460,000 in 1996 figures. The Region has experienced considerable growth in population as a preferred suburban community located 10-50km from Vancouver Centre. At the conclusion of this transition period the Simon Fraser Health Region will be responsible for all Ministry of Health grants to all agencies, affili ...

... is limited to voluntary individual choice. Many tools are powerful in our modern society. Genetics, particularly of a large population, cannot be quickly changed. Tyrants, like Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, may be interested in genetics and attempt to manipulate the gene pool, but do not have generations to wait . They usually do terrible and evil things long before the effects of a multigenerational genetic improvement program, however misguided, could be carried out. Many religious leaders believe that genetic engineering is “playing god”. They worry that using this “unnatural power” will bring about something far more horrifying that anyone could imagine. ...

... of the flu and the flu shot. We then tabulated that information to show the publics' knowledge of the flu and the flu shot. Using our Internet research and the data we gathered from our questionnaire, we learned some of the myths people generally believe about the flu and the flu shot. During the course of our research we learned ways to educate the public to eliminate those beliefs. We have gathered seven resources with information pertaining to the flu and the flu shot. Two articles came from journals of medicine called The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). The last five sources we found on ...

... often this is the case. Even though writing a living will is just as easy if not easier than writing a death will, many people don't take the time to do so. Therefore, doctors have to debate the question of euthanasia - a question that each one of us should ponder long before we are put in this situation. What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is not mercy killing. It has absolutely nothing to do with killing. On the contrary, euthanasia by definition simply means "good death" and in the applied sense it refers to "the patients own natural death without prolonging their dying process unduly." What this attempts to accomplish is to allow a person to die with p ...

... the threshold of their lives and usually includes a large lifestyle change. They have the crisis of losing their role as a parent and needing to find a new sense of identity without this role. Feelings that come with this part of the crisis include depression, self-doubt, heartache and low spirits. They must also handle any kind of regret or feeling of failure about their time and place as a parent. As a mid-life parent, some people (mostly women) can feel caught in the "sandwich generation". This means they are taking care of not only their children, but often grandparents all the way down to grandchildren. This would be a major stressor and crisis on the mi ...

... procedures that cause further suffering-provided, of course, that the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The physician must refrain from ordering painful tests, therapies, or surgical procedures when they cannot alleviate suffering or contribute to a patient's improvement or cure. Perhaps the most familiar contemporary medical example is the treatment of burn victims when survival is unprecedented; if with the treatments or without them the chances of the patient's survival is nil, mercy requires the physician not to impose the debridement treatments , which are excruciatingly painful, when they can provide the patient no benefit at all. Alth ...

... today. The medicine first became available through daily injections. However, it is now most commonly used in the form of once-monthly injections. Another medicine shown to be effect are Alpha blockers. These are drugs that help relax muscles near the prostate and may relieve symptoms. Alpha blockers are new drugs, so the doctors are not sure of all the side effects (Saltus A1). No matter what medication a patient decides to take, the victim still expieriences a great deal of pain. " My cancer, was the most painful thing I have ever had to go through," said Curtis. In the book A Private Battle, Ryan Cornelius has a grade five cancer. Prostate cancer ranges ...

... that control your muscles. Your motor neurons slowly deteriorate, causing your muscles to not receive information from your brain. Your muscles then become useless and begin to deteriorate. Symptoms of ALS include: Tripping and falling Loss of motor control in hands and arms Difficulty speaking and swallowing or difficulty breathing Persistent fatigue Twitching and cramping, sometimes severely As ALS progresses, all voluntary muscles become useless. The patient cannot eat, breathe or communicate with others. Total life support may be the only thing keeping them alive. ALS can lead to total paralysis. Although there is no cure, medications ...

... you might be asking about the different types of birth control. The forms of birth control that have been used over the years and currently include pesssaries, plants, condoms, and birth control pills. While there have been others it is best that we not discuss them here(trust me you don't want to know). Pessaries are vaginal suppositories. Used from ancient times to the present, they can be a fairly effective form of birth control. In ancient times, pessaries often contained acacia gum, which, while having some possible spermacidal effect, very likely sealed up the cervix, making it impossible for the sperm to pass through. This would make pessaries with a ...