Cancer and cannabis: Why Texas needs medical marijuana “I am using weed to help with my nausea. I feel much better.” Hearing these words from a terminally ill cancer patient at one of the largest cancer center in a state, Texas, where use of marijuana is still illegal was surprising. It was intriguing to encounter this sixty year old lady with terminal breast cancer, which had spread to her bones and other organs. After trying different therapies to help with side effects of chemotherapy drugs
life support. The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act states that any individual eighteen or older to donate any body parts after death. Medical professionals can use the organ donations for
Need for the study Biomedical waste word is applied to waste generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in the production or testing of biologicals1. Biomedical waste has been categorized as general waste, pathological waste, radioactive waste, chemical waste, infectious waste, sharps and pharmaceutical waste16. In country like India, where there is big and complex health care system, varied economy, private and Government hospitals working together, while
legitimate concern for safety if they desire to prohibit certain activities from the general population or certain inmates, and many times this is not the case. In a famous court case, inmates protested against mail censorship in their prison. It is common for threatening material in incoming mail to be censored by prison staff; however, in this case the censored portions were not malicious, but discourteous in racial, religious, and personal ways. The Supreme Court eventually ruled the prison’s censorship
Why Treating a crime scene as if it was ongoing when law enforcement officers arrive is important for self protection of the law enforcement personnel themselves but also protection for bystanders as well as witness that are within the immediate area. It should be noted at this time that descriptions of vehicles, their position, and license plates should be recorded in case they leave from the scene (Wyatt, 2014). Although all these reasons for securing a crime
Abstract Forensic pathology or medical examination involves investigation and discovery of the cause of dead. This field is one branch of forensic science that implicates thoroughly examination of the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly or violently, it determinate the time, cause and manner of death. This determination involves collaboration between medical examiner and others as toxicologist, radiologists, entomologist or anthropologist, with the autopsy or postmortem examination
relationships with patients have made laws fundamental to the study and practice of medical care. During every part in the stages of a patients care, laws are in place to make sure patients are given up to date medical procedures. This essay will review the process and purposes of informed consent and to outline it's ethical and legal bases, and also take a look at a few of its limitations. Informed consent is the client's right to be informed about their medical treatment and to make the decision
At face value, the use of lights and sirens by prehospital emergency medical personnel does not seem to be an area of high-value research or controversy. We are all quite used to seeing emergency vehicles at work on our streets, lights flashing and sirens wailing. Both lights and sirens are, and for a long time have been, standard components of EMS vehicles. They are used both to decrease the time it takes emergency medical personnel to respond to the location of an accident, illness, or injury
forward. One of the main causes of forced marriage is cultural tradition. On some occasions, parents come under pressure from family members, often senior relatives to marry their daughters to someone in the family (Samad and Eade, 2002). In some cases, pressure from extended family takes place when the daughter is born and the decision of who the child will marry takes place in infancy (Anonymous, 2013). Marrying daughters in the family also mean that land, property and wealth will not be in the
Medical Malpractice Everyone makes mistakes, but some are more deadly than others. Malpractice is the illegal or negligence, professional activity or they’re working out of the their scope of practice. Medical malpractice is one of the top causes of death in the United States. With this being said, insurance for medical practitioners would be considerably higher. Should the amount of malpractice insurance be lowered even though malpractice is one of the leading causes of death? The answer is yes