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Papers on Health and Medicine
Teenage Stress
Number of words: 746 | Number of pages: 3.... and can turn into distress. Too much stress on your mind and body can make you feel miserable, worried, sad and ill. Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the pressure from the outside, such as divorce, death, burned supper, vacation that didn’t seem like one, and isolation. Those are simply the stressors, causes to the stress, but your response to those situations constitutes the actual stress.
Teenagers face a specific kind of stress. It could be problems at home, with parents, with siblings, an alcoholic parent, divorce, or it could be problems at school, pressure from your teachers, pressure from your frie .....
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Rabies
Number of words: 619 | Number of pages: 3.... last from
two weeks to six months, and often the original wound will have healed and been
forgotten by the time symptoms begin to occur.
Symptoms in humans present themselves in one of two forms: ‘furious rabies', or ‘
dumb rabies'. The former is called such because of the severe nature and range
of the symptoms. The virus, upon reaching the CNS will present the person with
headache, fever, irritability, restlessness and anxiety. Progression may occur
on to muscle pains, excessive salivation, and vomiting. After a few days or up
to a week the person may go through a stage of excitement, and be afflicted with
painful muscl .....
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Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?
Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4.... where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very
defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year.
Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they
are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held
liable.
This condition, already appearing in India, could become the downfall of
their present health care industry. Doctors are being forced to “look upon
every patient as a potential litigant.” There is likely going to be a
tremendous rise in the cost of treatmen .....
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The Black Plague
Number of words: 1113 | Number of pages: 5.... without doubt that God was responsible, judging human behavior and ready to punish the wicked. They concluded that this Black Plague was punishment from an angry God (Corzine 27-31).
had several different names. Bubonic Plague received its name because of the painful swellings it produced called buboes. The Black Death is another name which was given to the Plague because of the appearance of black blood beneath the skin. This disease became associated with the term "plague" because of the widespread fatalities that it caused throughout history (Platt 10-11).
The people of the fourteenth century were uneducated and suscept .....
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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
Number of words: 2121 | Number of pages: 8.... thirties and
forties owing to a lack specific treatment.
A biochemical disorder also caused by a missing enzyme is the Lesch-
Nyhan syndrome, an extremely unpleasant disorder characterized not only by
profound mental retardation and features of brain damage (stiff limbs with
peculiar movements), but also self-mutilation, (Jones, 1988). Given good care
and attention however, these patients may live on many years in their profoundly
retarded state. They often require restraining, tying their hands, to prevent
them from mutilating themselves.
Another Affected children with Menkes steely-hair syndrome have hair
that feels simila .....
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Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
Number of words: 674 | Number of pages: 3.... friends from drinking nor did
it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too
easy to avoid so getting caught by the cops was rarely a matter of great concern.
Besides, even when one of my friends would get caught, they were usually
released to their parents with nothing more than a stern warning from the
officer who gave them the ride home.
Now, being at home brings up another reason not to drink. We all want to
try to obey our parents, right! Well actually, I did, want to try that is.
This stage of moral functioning is called Conformity. Here you try to be good
boys and girls. I wasn't g .....
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The Influence Of Ecstasy On The Youth
Number of words: 1284 | Number of pages: 5.... where drugs like ecstasy are socially acceptable. Rave like other cult is self-stupefying and refuses to question the taking of the drugs affecting its continual and successful existence. “Recreational drug users often see only benefits only from drug use and at this stage will have control over the drug taking, despite using drug on regular basis. However recreational drug use does not mean problem free drug use.”(Latimer 1997). For this reason it is vital to raise awareness about some of the known effects of the drug use. Both within the raving community and the general public, after all the young Ravers of today a .....
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Euthanasia And The Moral Right To Die
Number of words: 1161 | Number of pages: 5.... us to ask why a dying dog is entitled to more humane treatment than a human in the same condition. Finding a humane and sensible approach to treating the terminally ill has become a hotly debated topic in recent years. One approach to this problem is euthanasia, which by definition mean "a painless death, a mercy killing"(Webster's 190). In other words, euthanasia is causing the death of someone who is already dying and in such pain that their continued existence will only produce continued unbearable suffering. There are two forms of euthanasia, passive and active. Passive euthanasia is an accepted medical practice where th .....
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Psychoanalysis
Number of words: 1310 | Number of pages: 5.... The laws of logic, indispensable for conscious thinking, do not apply to these unconscious mental productions.
Recognition of these modes of operation in unconscious mental processes made possible the understanding of such previously incomprehensible psychological phenomena as dreaming. Through analysis of unconscious processes, Freud saw dreams as serving to protect sleep against disturbing impulses arising from within and related to early life experiences. Thus, unacceptable impulses and thoughts, called the latent dream content, are transformed into a conscious, although no longer immediately comprehensible, experience ca .....
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Gut Issues
Number of words: 526 | Number of pages: 2.... on them - in turn
producing intestinal gas. No wonder, then, that dietary fibre has been
unwelcome in many of history's nicer neighborhoods.
Even 20th century doctors reasoned that since the bulky material provided
not a single nutrient, it would only strain already troubled guts.
Accordingly, they recommended low-fibre diets for patients suffering from
hemorrhoids and other colon disorders often found in the West. But then,
about 15 years ago, the prescription was reversed as researchers found
that poor Africans, who eats lots of fibre, rarely suffer from such
complaints. Fibre, the researchers learned, actually eases the bo .....
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