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Application of Cognitive Learning In the Field of Cytology

Cognitive learning approaches can be applied to any discipline. It emphasizes problem solving and the facilitation of storage and retrieval of information for applications. One’s ability to learn is dependent on the way one perceives, organizes, store and retrieves information (Grider, 1993). Most work in cognitive science assumes that the mind is analogous to the […]

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MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING UK’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: What can US learn from UK?

What are the major challenges facing UK’s health care system? The English government determines how expenses are reimbursed, negotiates salaries and contracts with its 1.4 million NHS employees, and limits the availability of expensive technology through the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). NICE is a controversial body. At its heart is the Center […]

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BRIEF COMPARISON – UK HEALTHCARE SYSTEM VS. U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

The healthcare system of the United States and United Kingdom closely represent the extremes, the former has the largest private sector system, while the latter has one of the largest public sector system (Bolnick, 2002). The United States spends more on health care than any other nation while England is in the bottom among industrial […]

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THE DONABEDIAN MODEL OF THE BRITISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

This is the second part of the Donabedian model for measuring quality of care developed by Avedis Donabedian (Donabedian, 2003). The first part reflected on United Kingdom’s (UK) historical background, government, and economy, including its healthcare overview. The keys to Donabedian’s approach to quality assessment and quality assurance are manifested in three ways of approach: […]

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or ObamaCare: A Prelude to a Socialized Healthcare Insurance System?

Healthcare has advanced in significant ways across the developed world. Medical care has advanced and investment in equipment and drugs has delivered unprecedented gains. The quality of life and expectancy have been enhanced and treatments are safer and more effective than ever before. The rapid growth of medical knowledge and technology made it harder for […]

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Informed Consent and Patient’s Right to Choose

This posting will identify and analyze controversial patient treatments including an explanation why other treatments are more controversial than others. In the construct of the informed consent, it is important to differentiate between patient’s preferences for specific treatment and patient’s preferences for specific health states. Issues such as patient’s right to choose treatment or refuse

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Ethical Issue: The Delicate Balance Among the Principles of Autonomy, Beneficence, and Nonmaleficence.

This posting will contrast the principles of nomaleficence and beneficence including a risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses of a course of action. From the ancient maxim of professional medical ethics, “Primum non nocere: First, do not harm,” came the principle of nonmaleficence. This principle implies an obligation not to do harm, thus a physician not

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Egalitarian Access to Health Care as a Prerequisite for Justice

The development of a rationale for egalitarian access to health care as a prerequisite for justice has been the focus of philosophical reflection on health and justice. This posting will analyze and provide an explanation of the theory of egalitarian theory of justice. John Rawls championed the cause of egalitarian theory (1971). There are two […]

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High and Low Level Health Care Quality Maybe Just In the Eye of the Beholder

Universally, the three most important issues in any health care system worldwide are cost, quality, and access (Shi & Singh, 2008). Two of the issues, cost and access can be measured empirically, while the third one, quality is somehow of a subjective issue, so that McGlynn and Wasserman (2006) argued that health care quality may […]

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Sometimes Helping an Employee with Healthcare Coverage Can Be Risky

It is now a common knowledge that employers of less than 50 employees are not mandated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide any for health insurance to its employees. But suppose a particular company with a self-insured plan, as a gesture of kindness, elects to provide health benefit to one employee because they

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