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Medical Malpractice From A Surgeons Surgical Instruments, Andre77 S. Brown Nov 2010

Medical Malpractice From A Surgeons Surgical Instruments, Andre77 S. Brown

andre77 S Brown

Hello, My name is Andre Brown and I’m a medical researcher for HNM Medical. I’ve written an article about medical malpractice that I would like to share you to post on your site. You may have full reprint rights to this article as long as you include the 3 links with do follow attributes that I have included in the body. - Please see the attachment for the article


Healthcare In Cuba, Carmen M. Cusack J.D. Oct 2010

Healthcare In Cuba, Carmen M. Cusack J.D.

Carmen M Cusack

Poor Americans who lack health-insurance or have little opportunity to access specialized or non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. should be permitted by the U.S. State Department to spend money in Cuba in order to receive inexpensive medical treatment, and should be allowed to stay (and spend) in Cuba as long as necessary in order to receive inexpensive medical treatment. If Americans were permitted by an exception in the Helms-Burton Act to spend money in Cuba and visit for medical purposes, then Cuba would likely treat these Americans for a very low cost. This can be argued because 1) Cuba …


Review Of "Health Law And Bioethics: Cases In Context", Michele L. Mekel Sep 2010

Review Of "Health Law And Bioethics: Cases In Context", Michele L. Mekel

Michele L Mekel

A review of the book "Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context"


Evaluation Of The Antimicrobial Effect Of Super-Oxidized Water (Sterilox®) And Sodium Hypochlorite Against Enterococcus Faecalis In A Bovine Root Canal Model, G. Rossi-Fedele, J.A. Figueiredo, Liviu Steier, L. Canullo, Gabriela Steier, A.P. Roberts Sep 2010

Evaluation Of The Antimicrobial Effect Of Super-Oxidized Water (Sterilox®) And Sodium Hypochlorite Against Enterococcus Faecalis In A Bovine Root Canal Model, G. Rossi-Fedele, J.A. Figueiredo, Liviu Steier, L. Canullo, Gabriela Steier, A.P. Roberts

Gabriela Steier

No abstract provided.


Conservation Value Of Residential Open Space: Designation And Management Language Of Florida’S Land Development Regulations, Dara M. Wald May 2010

Conservation Value Of Residential Open Space: Designation And Management Language Of Florida’S Land Development Regulations, Dara M. Wald

Dara Wald

The conservation value of open space depends upon the quantity and quality of the area protected, as well as how it is designed and managed. This study reports the results of a content analysis of Florida county Land Development Regulations. Codes were reviewed to determine the amount of open space required, how open space is protected during construction, the delegation of responsibilities, and the designation of funds for management. Definitions of open space varied dramatically across the state. Most county codes provided inadequate descriptions of management recommendations, which could lead to a decline in the conservation value of the protected …


Athletic Voices And Academic Victories: African American Male Student-Athlete Experiences In The Pac-Ten, Keith Harrison May 2010

Athletic Voices And Academic Victories: African American Male Student-Athlete Experiences In The Pac-Ten, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

The purpose of this study was to explore participants’ academic experiences and confidence about their academic achievement. Participants (N = 27) consisted of high-achieving African American male student—athletes from four academically rigorous American universities in the Pac-Ten conference. Most of the participants competed in revenue-generating sports and were interviewed to obtain a deeper understanding of their successful academic experiences. Utilizing a phenomenological approach four major themes emerged: “I Had to Prove I’m Worthy,” “I’m a Perceived Threat to Society,” “It’s About Time Management,” and “It’s About Pride and Hard Work.” Stereotype threat and stereotype reactance are investigated in relation to …


22. Young Children’S Emerging Ability To Make False Statements., Thomas D. Lyon, Elizabeth C. Ahern, Jodi A. Quas Apr 2010

22. Young Children’S Emerging Ability To Make False Statements., Thomas D. Lyon, Elizabeth C. Ahern, Jodi A. Quas

Thomas D. Lyon

This study examined the origins of children’s ability to make consciously false statements, a necessary component of lying. Children 2 to 5 years of age were rewarded for claiming that they saw a picture of a bird when viewing pictures of fish. They were asked outcome questions (“Do you win/lose?”), recognition questions (“Do you have a bird/fish?”), and recall questions (“What do you have?”), which were hypothesized to vary in difficulty depending on the need for consciousness of falsity (less for outcome questions) and self-generation of an appropriate response (more for recall questions). The youngest children (21⁄2 to 31⁄2 years …


Proceedings Of The 2009 Nrc Federal Facilities Council/James Madison University Symposium On Protecting Large Facility Complexes;, George H. Baker, Cheryl E. Wilkins Apr 2010

Proceedings Of The 2009 Nrc Federal Facilities Council/James Madison University Symposium On Protecting Large Facility Complexes;, George H. Baker, Cheryl E. Wilkins

George H Baker

Large, complex facilities pose unique protection challenges involving multidisciplinary expertise and collaboration among government, academia, and the private sector. The symposium served as a forum for sharing experiences in dealing with large facility catastrophic events and risk management. The symposium was organized based on the value of interaction among different people representing diverse disciplines. In many instances, such interactions lead to solutions that would not have been developed within disciplinary stovepipes. The venue was divided into three panels addressing physical security, cyber security, and real facility case studies. We were also privileged to have three keynote speakers including Dr. Charles …


Reasons To Pass Health Reform, Robert B. Leflar, Hershey Garner Md Mar 2010

Reasons To Pass Health Reform, Robert B. Leflar, Hershey Garner Md

Robert B Leflar

Column 5 (of 5) on the health reform debate


Health Reform: Arkansas Impacts, Robert B. Leflar Feb 2010

Health Reform: Arkansas Impacts, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

Column 4 (of 5) on the health reform debate


14. Investigative Interviewing Of The Child., Thomas D. Lyon Feb 2010

14. Investigative Interviewing Of The Child., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Children, if questioned in a supportive manner, are capable of providing enormous amounts of productive information in response to open-ended questions. The irony is that many direct and suggestive methods once thought necessary to overcome abused children's reluctance to disclose abuse have been found counterproductive in two ways: they minimize the number of details in true allegations at the same time that they increase the risk of false allegations.


21. Children’S Reasoning About Disclosing Adult Transgressions: Effects Of Maltreatment, Child Age, And Adult Identity., Thomas D. Lyon, Elizabeth C. Ahern, Lindsay A. Malloy, Jodi A. Quas Feb 2010

21. Children’S Reasoning About Disclosing Adult Transgressions: Effects Of Maltreatment, Child Age, And Adult Identity., Thomas D. Lyon, Elizabeth C. Ahern, Lindsay A. Malloy, Jodi A. Quas

Thomas D. Lyon

A total of two hundred ninety-nine 4- to 9-year-old maltreated and nonmaltreated children of comparable socioeconomic status and ethnicity judged whether children should or would disclose unspecified transgressions of adults (instigators) to other adults (recipients) in scenarios varying the identity of the instigator (stranger or parent), the identity of the recipient (parent, police, or teacher), and the severity of the transgression (‘‘something really bad’’ or ‘‘something just a little bad’’). Children endorsed more disclosure against stranger than parent instigators and less disclosure to teacher than parent and police recipients. The youngest maltreated children endorsed less disclosure than nonmaltreated children, but …


An Open Letter To The Citizens Of Northwest Louisiana, Frederick J. White Iii Jan 2010

An Open Letter To The Citizens Of Northwest Louisiana, Frederick J. White Iii

Frederick J White III

We, the undersigned physicians, want to publicly address our community regarding the health system debate in Congress. This is a historic time, and decisions made in these next days will impact you as citizens and as patients for generations. We recognize that the health system needs change. But the path that the Congress has taken is unwise and unnecessary. And although the American Medical Association has endorsed both the House and Senate bills, (1) we want to be clear—the AMA does not speak for us on these issues.


Manifest Greatness The Final Original Version By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero Jan 2010

Manifest Greatness The Final Original Version By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

MANIFEST GREATNESS vf24jan2010 WE COME TOGETHER THERE OUGHT TO BE NO POOR WE TAKE CHARGE.


Responding To Nursing Home Abuse-Case Study Of Illinois Department Of Public Health, Department Of Professional Regulation. Us Human Rights Record Worse Than China Record, James T. Struck Jan 2010

Responding To Nursing Home Abuse-Case Study Of Illinois Department Of Public Health, Department Of Professional Regulation. Us Human Rights Record Worse Than China Record, James T. Struck

James T Struck

Illinois takes away the right to decide and resources of people with disabilities under guardianship. Other nations and states also have guardianship with over 1.6 million people under guardianship, and 1.6 million in nursing homes. Some Illinois nursing homes deny liberties such as phone use, visitation, coming home, fresh air away from second hand smoking, consent, chemicals used, dental services, religious services, knowing where family is, museums, zoos, parks, reunions. This article addresses the regulatory response. When seeking the assistance of the Illinois Department of Public Health, Illinois Human Rights Department, and Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, requests for phone …


An Ad Hoc Inquiry Into The Feasibilities And Impracticalities Associated With Class Certification Of Blood Glucose Monitor Users, Margarita Rubin Jan 2010

An Ad Hoc Inquiry Into The Feasibilities And Impracticalities Associated With Class Certification Of Blood Glucose Monitor Users, Margarita Rubin

Margarita Rubin

ABSTRACT Recent developments in pre-emption law have outlined the requirements for bringing an action against a manufacturer of an FDA approved medical device. Specifically, devices that undergo the 510(k) approval process remain a viable target for state tort claims. In February, 2008 the Supreme Court handed down a crucial decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., involving medical devices regulated by the FDA. In Riegel, the Court reaffirmed the distinction between the exhaustive "federal requirements" of the PMA process and the looser scrutiny of 510(k) notification. This means that 510(k) devices—which vastly outnumber PMA devices—remain fully exposed to mass-tort liability. Medical …


21st Century Healthcare - A New Scenario Needs New Rules Of The Game, Mian Atif Saeed Jan 2010

21st Century Healthcare - A New Scenario Needs New Rules Of The Game, Mian Atif Saeed

Mian Atif Saeed

We are witnessing a changing paradigm of healthcare sector in view increasing pressure on governments to provide free healthcare to citizens and increasing cost-consciousness of governments/payers to address this public issue. This changing paradigm in healthcare requirements requires a holistic review of the legislative framework in which industry operates. All stakeholders and all applicable regulatory and legal frameworks need to be appraised in order to address the requirements of 21st century healthcare. Drug development is very risky, costly and lengthy process and inventors and investor deserve financial gains for their efforts. Pharmaceutical industry requires the money to keep investing back …


Towards A New Moral Paradigm In Health Care Delivery: Accounting For Individuals, Meir Katz Jan 2010

Towards A New Moral Paradigm In Health Care Delivery: Accounting For Individuals, Meir Katz

Meir Katz

For years, commentators have debated how to most appropriately allocate scarce medical resources over large populations. In this paper, I abstract the major rationing schema into three general approaches: rationing by price, quantity, and prioritization. Each has both normative appeal and considerable weakness. After exploring them, I present what some commentators have termed the “moral paradigm” as an alternative to broader philosophies designed to encapsulate the universe of options available to allocators (often termed the market, professional, and political paradigms). While not itself an abstraction of any specific viable rationing scheme, it provides a strong basis for the development of …


Accounting Of Profits To Remedy Biotechnology Patent Infringement, Jeremy De Beer, Kurtis Andrews Jan 2010

Accounting Of Profits To Remedy Biotechnology Patent Infringement, Jeremy De Beer, Kurtis Andrews

Jeremy de Beer

No abstract provided.


Altruism And Innovation In Health Care, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson Dec 2009

Altruism And Innovation In Health Care, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson

Stéphane Mechoulan

The joint presence of technological change and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world, because medical innovation drives the expansion of the health care sector and altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies. Although traditional economic analysis has proposed well-known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient technological change in isolation, it lacks clear principles for addressing them jointly. We argue that standard remedies to each of the two problems are inadequate. Focusing on U.S. health care, we provide illustrative calculations of the dynamic inefficiency in the level of research and development (R&D) spending when …


Statutes Undermine The Progress Made: The Criminalisation Of Positive Women, Aziza Ahmed, Beri Hull, Alice Welbourn, Emma Bell, Heidi Nass Dec 2009

Statutes Undermine The Progress Made: The Criminalisation Of Positive Women, Aziza Ahmed, Beri Hull, Alice Welbourn, Emma Bell, Heidi Nass

Aziza Ahmed

Criminalisation laws have a specific and nuanced impact on women living with HIV. An understanding of the consequences of such laws will help positive women and other advocates to combat negative uses of such laws, and to frame and advocate for effective alternatives for HIV prevention. This article helps tease out some of the ways that criminalisation can negatively impact the lives of positive women in particular: the explicit sex discrimination in the laws, the gender bias in courtrooms, the impact on marginalised women, and the increase in stigma and discrimination through criminalisation laws.


Scholar-Baller: Student Athlete Socialization, Motivation, And Academic Performance In American Society, Keith Harrison Dec 2009

Scholar-Baller: Student Athlete Socialization, Motivation, And Academic Performance In American Society, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.


A Critical Race Analysis Of The Hiring Process For Head Coaches In Ncaa College Football, Keith Harrison Dec 2009

A Critical Race Analysis Of The Hiring Process For Head Coaches In Ncaa College Football, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

In this article, we respond to Singer’s (2005) challenge to sport management scholars to consider race-based epistemologies in conducting certain kinds of research in the field, as we use critical race theory (CRT) as a framework to analyze the Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA) Hiring Report Card (HRC) (Harrison & Yee, 2009). The BCA HRC was created as a result of the access discrimination that has historically taken place in college sport (Brooks & Althouse, 2000; Cunningham & Sagas, 2005), which has consequently contributed to the underrepresentation of racial minorities in the head coach position in college football. The HRC …


Gay And Lesbian Elders: History, Law, And Identity Politics In The United States, Nancy J. Knauer Dec 2009

Gay And Lesbian Elders: History, Law, And Identity Politics In The United States, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

The approximately two million gay and lesbian elders in the United States are an underserved and understudied population. At a time when gay men and lesbians enjoy an unprecedented degree of social acceptance and legal protection, many elders face the daily challenges of aging isolated from family, detached from the larger gay and lesbian community, and ignored by mainstream aging initiatives. Drawing on materials from law, history, and social theory, this book integrates practical proposals for reform with larger issues of sexuality and identity. Beginning with a summary of existing demographic data and offering a historical overview of pre-Stonewall views …


Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie Dec 2009

Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie

Richard E. Redding

Judges play a central role in decision making in the justice system. This chapter reviews the extant empirical research on judicial decision making in criminal, juvenile, and civil cases. We discuss judges’ decision making about forensic mental health evidence introduced in these cases, judicial receptivity to various kinds of evidence, and their understanding of clinical and scientific evidence as well as the ways they make rulings about such evidence. We focus on decision making at the trial court level, in those arenas that are most relevant to the forensic mental health practitioner (psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker) who is called …


Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie Dec 2009

Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie

Richard E. Redding

Judges play a central role in decision making in the justice system. This chapter reviews the extant empirical research on judicial decision making in criminal, juvenile, and civil cases. We discuss judges’ decision making about forensic mental health evidence introduced in these cases, judicial receptivity to various kinds of evidence, and their understanding of clinical and scientific evidence as well as the ways they make rulings about such evidence. We focus on decision making at the trial court level, in those arenas that are most relevant to the forensic mental health practitioner (psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker) who is called …