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Patient-doctor relationship - 3/23/2006
The doctor-patient relationship and interaction is a central process in the practice of medicine. There are many perspectives from which to understand and describe it. ...
Health - 3/23/2006
Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness, the ability to cope with everyday activities, physical fitness, and high quality of life. ...
Environmental health - 3/23/2006
Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment. ...
Prescription drug - 3/23/2006
A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. ...
Regulation in United States for Prescription drug - 3/23/2006
In the United States, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act defines what requires a prescription. ...
Regulation in United Kingdom for Prescription drug - 3/23/2006
In the United Kingdom, a patient visits a doctor (usually a general practitioner in the first instance) who is able to prescribe medicines. ...
General practitioner - 3/23/2006
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician (FP) is a physician/medical doctor who provides primary care. ...
General practitioner in US - 3/23/2006
In the United States, a general practitioner has completed the one-year internship required to obtain a medical license, after having received at least an undergraduate Baccalaureate degree and a four-year Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. ...
General practitioner in UK - 3/23/2006
In the United Kingdom, doctors wishing to become GPs take at least 4 years training after medical school, which is usually an undergraduate course of five to six years (or a graduate course of four to six years), leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB): ...
General practitioner in Spain - 3/23/2006
In Spain the médico de familia/médico general commonly called médico de cabecera, works in multidisciplinary teams (pediatrics, nurses, social workers and others) on primary care centers. ...
General practitioner in India - 3/23/2006
In India to become a GP or a Family Physician, one has to enroll in a medical college and complete the Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) course, which is of four and a half years duration, after which one year of compulsory internship has to be done. ...
General practitioner in France - 3/23/2006
In France, the médecin généraliste (commonly called docteur) is responsible for the long term care in a population. ...
General practitioner in Canada - 3/23/2006
In Canada, there are no newly qualifying general practitioners: all medical students go on to a specialty, family medicine being the most popular. ...
General practitioner in Australia - 3/23/2006
General Practice in Australia has undergone many changes in training requirements over the past decade. ...
General practitioner in Brazil - 3/23/2006
General practice in Brazil is called clínica geral or clínica médica. ...
Health savings account - 3/23/2006
The Health Savings Account (HSA) is a tax advantaged savings plan available to taxpayers in the United States to deposit money to pay for current and future medical expenses. ...
Medical savings account - 3/23/2006
A medical savings account (MSA) is an account where tax-deferred deposits can be made for medical expenses. ...
Advantages of Medical savings account - 3/23/2006
This plan for the self-employed essentially exists to fund a tax exempt account for medical expenses incurred before an associated 'high deductible' insurance plan begins to cover those expenses. ...
Two-tier health care - 3/23/2006
Two-tier health care is a form of national health care system that is used in most developed countries. ...
Canadian and American health care systems compared - 3/23/2006
The comparison of the health care systems of Canada and the United States is of great importance to both nations. ...
Community health - 3/23/2006
Community health is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of communities. ...
Palliative care - 3/23/2006
Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ...
Hospice and palliative care goals - 3/23/2006
More than a place, hospice care is a philosophy that is now called "palliative care." ...
Hospice history - 3/23/2006
Hospices were originally places of rest for travellers in the 4th century CE. In the 19th century a religious order established hospices for the dying in Ireland and London. ...
Palliative care practice - 3/23/2006
Palliative care most often occurs in the dying person's home. It is also provided in freestanding inpatient (hospice) units and within regular hospital units. ...
Treatment of distress - 3/23/2006
The key to effective palliative care is to provide a safe place for the individual to express their distress. ...
Hospice chaplain - 3/23/2006
Hospice chaplains or geriatrics chaplains are, simply, chaplains often assigned by or working with hospitals, seminaries or volunteer organizations, that specialise in providing long-term spiritual care, especially to geriatric patients and those suffering from terminal illness. ...
Terminal sedation - 3/23/2006
Terminal sedation (also known as palliative sedation, or sedation for intractable distress in the dying/of a dying patient) is the practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a patient's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative drug such as midazolam, a short acting benzodiazepine. ...
Pain medicine - 3/23/2006
Pain medicine is a branch of anaesthetics concerned with the treatment of acute and chronic pain. ...
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Health insurance - 3/23/2006
Health insurance is a type of insurance whereby the insurer pays the medical costs of the insured if the insured becomes sick due to covered causes, or due to accidents. ...
History and evolution of Health insurance - 3/23/2006
The concept of health insurance was proposed in 1694 by Hugh the Elder Chamberlen from the Peter Chamberlen family. ...
Private health insurance - 3/23/2006
Before buying health insurance, a person typically fills out a comprehensive medical history form that asks whether the person smokes, how much the person weighs, and has the person ever been treated for any of a long list of diseases. ...
Common complaints of private insurance - 3/23/2006
Some common complaints about private health insurance include: ...
Publicly funded health insurance - 3/23/2006
In the United States, government-run Medicare/Medicaid programs help to insurance the elderly and low income families. ...
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