A former Durango resident chronicles her son's 18-month struggle to find treatment for debilitating abdominal pain. Doctors initially misdiagnosed her son Kevin with anorexia and prescribed antidepressants, which nearly led to suicide. After numerous hospitalizations, Kevin was correctly diagnosed with Wilkes Syndrome, a rare condition causing intestinal blockage. He underwent surgery to repair the damage, but still required a feeding tube for 7 months as he slowly recovered. The article argues for a more patient-centered healthcare system that takes time to listen to patients and considers them as individuals rather than just medical conditions.
Diabetic neuropathy: relief by topical natural phytochemicals V2Kevin KF Ng
Poster presentation at Florida Geriatric Society Symposium on August 5-6, 2017 at Orlando, Florida, USA. Diabetic neuropathy prevalence. Symptom of numbness, tingling, pain and swelling in lower extremities is due an inflammatoary process caused by a range of chemical mediators. The chemical mediators are derived from leukocytes, macrophages, platelets, endothelium, nerves and plasma. These mediators can be blocked by phytochemicals extracted from spices and herbs with massage oils.
Breanna Schnitger was inspired by her four young girls to further her education. As a result of her successful completion of our Phlebotomy program, she was hired by WellStar Cobb Hospital.
Mothers in Critical Care: learning from patients’ experiences & challenges to...Intensive Care Society
Dr Lisa Hinton is a medical sociologist, and leads applied research in the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG). Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy makers and care providers. How research on patient and staff experiences can make a difference in these areas is at the core of her research interests.
Lisa has a portfolio of applied, mixed methods, social science research specialising primarily in women's health, in particular experiences of infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and neonatal care. She is also involved in several studies seeking to improve patient experiences in critical care.The role of digital technology in patient self-management and healthcare is another area of interest.
Lisa leads qualitative work developing and evaluating complex interventions and is currently working on two clinical trials of self-monitoring of blood pressure. One is studying the impact of SMBP during pregnancy and a second the impact of SMBP after a stroke or TIA (see Hypertension). She also leads a programme of work as part of the Oxford BRC's Partnerships for Health Wealth and Innovation theme exploring research participation and patient and public involvement.
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Read these stories in Issue 1 2014 of It's About Children by East Tennessee Children's Hospital:
Thanks to pediatric experts, Blake Shelor is able to be a "crazy, wild, active little boy."
From a 3.8 GPA in microbiology to learning how to rock climb, Sarah Holloway is ready for any challenge.
We recently started using a new type of equipment to improve safety for patients who receive I.V. medicine.
Assessing the Quality of End of-Life Care for Older Persons with Advanced Dem...mjbinstitute
Dementia is one of the most devastating illnesses affecting older persons. According to a survey from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, approximately 5% of Israeli elderly living in the community have advanced dementia.
This first study of the care of older people with advanced dementia in Israel reveals a wide range of unmet health and social service needs. It points to the need for a comprehensive policy for developing services to improve the quality of care and reduce the burden on the families.
The findings are contributing to the implementation of the national strategic plan for addressing the challenges of dementia, currently being implemented by the Ministry of Health, and to a new national program for palliative care for people with terminal illnesses, which is in the planning stages as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health, JDC-ESHEL, and MJB.
The study was funded with the assistance of the Helen Daniels Bader Fund of Bader Philanthropies of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital’s mission is to improve the health of children through exceptional, comprehensive
family-centered care, wellness and education. Our School Nurse Conference puts that mission into action in the
community by enhancing the knowledge of school nurses about managing common childhood illnesses and injuries
and providing updated information about changes in care for children with chronic diseases. Find out more at: http://www.etch.com/events/school_nurse_conference.aspx
Diabetic neuropathy: relief by topical natural phytochemicals V2Kevin KF Ng
Poster presentation at Florida Geriatric Society Symposium on August 5-6, 2017 at Orlando, Florida, USA. Diabetic neuropathy prevalence. Symptom of numbness, tingling, pain and swelling in lower extremities is due an inflammatoary process caused by a range of chemical mediators. The chemical mediators are derived from leukocytes, macrophages, platelets, endothelium, nerves and plasma. These mediators can be blocked by phytochemicals extracted from spices and herbs with massage oils.
Breanna Schnitger was inspired by her four young girls to further her education. As a result of her successful completion of our Phlebotomy program, she was hired by WellStar Cobb Hospital.
Mothers in Critical Care: learning from patients’ experiences & challenges to...Intensive Care Society
Dr Lisa Hinton is a medical sociologist, and leads applied research in the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG). Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy makers and care providers. How research on patient and staff experiences can make a difference in these areas is at the core of her research interests.
Lisa has a portfolio of applied, mixed methods, social science research specialising primarily in women's health, in particular experiences of infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and neonatal care. She is also involved in several studies seeking to improve patient experiences in critical care.The role of digital technology in patient self-management and healthcare is another area of interest.
Lisa leads qualitative work developing and evaluating complex interventions and is currently working on two clinical trials of self-monitoring of blood pressure. One is studying the impact of SMBP during pregnancy and a second the impact of SMBP after a stroke or TIA (see Hypertension). She also leads a programme of work as part of the Oxford BRC's Partnerships for Health Wealth and Innovation theme exploring research participation and patient and public involvement.
http://www.etch.com/about_us/its_about_children.aspx
Read these stories in Issue 1 2014 of It's About Children by East Tennessee Children's Hospital:
Thanks to pediatric experts, Blake Shelor is able to be a "crazy, wild, active little boy."
From a 3.8 GPA in microbiology to learning how to rock climb, Sarah Holloway is ready for any challenge.
We recently started using a new type of equipment to improve safety for patients who receive I.V. medicine.
Assessing the Quality of End of-Life Care for Older Persons with Advanced Dem...mjbinstitute
Dementia is one of the most devastating illnesses affecting older persons. According to a survey from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, approximately 5% of Israeli elderly living in the community have advanced dementia.
This first study of the care of older people with advanced dementia in Israel reveals a wide range of unmet health and social service needs. It points to the need for a comprehensive policy for developing services to improve the quality of care and reduce the burden on the families.
The findings are contributing to the implementation of the national strategic plan for addressing the challenges of dementia, currently being implemented by the Ministry of Health, and to a new national program for palliative care for people with terminal illnesses, which is in the planning stages as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health, JDC-ESHEL, and MJB.
The study was funded with the assistance of the Helen Daniels Bader Fund of Bader Philanthropies of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital’s mission is to improve the health of children through exceptional, comprehensive
family-centered care, wellness and education. Our School Nurse Conference puts that mission into action in the
community by enhancing the knowledge of school nurses about managing common childhood illnesses and injuries
and providing updated information about changes in care for children with chronic diseases. Find out more at: http://www.etch.com/events/school_nurse_conference.aspx
It's all about processes communicating - Russel WinderJAX London
Shared memory multi-threading is an operating system technique which has no place in tool and application programming. Actors, dataflows, Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP): these are the tools for application and tool construction in this increasingly multiple multicore processor world. The Java platform has some useful tools in java.util.concurrent, but it is still focused on lower-level layers of abstraction. GPars builds on these and brings actors, dataflows, CSP, agents, etc. to people working with Java and Groovy. In this session we will look at various examples of how to use these tools to easily create concurrent and parallel programs without all the fears of deadlock and livelock inherent in shared memory multi-threaded code.
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For this week’s discussion, we have decided to move forward with the software development. We are looking at some tools that allow us to better look at the upcoming project. There are several diagrams that all have different purposes of showing other things about the project.
· Of the following tools, which do you feel is the most valuable? Explain why.
. Functional decomposition diagram (FDD).
. Use case diagram.
. Data flow diagram (DFD).
. Sequence diagram.
By Ryan Jaslow CBS News November 28, 2011, 10:33 AM
Obese third-grader taken from family: Did state go too far?
1. Childhood obesity is in the spotlight, as a 200-pound third grader from Ohio has been taken from his family and placed into foster care.
2 A county spokeswoman cited "medical neglect" for the reason the eight-year-old was removed from his Cleveland home. Social workers worked with the boy's mother for a year before asking the court for custody of the child, the
Plain Dealer reported. Social workers said the boy's mom wasn't doing enough to control his weight, putting him at an increased risk for diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.
3 Lawyers for the mother argue that the county "overreached" in taking her son, saying the kid's health is not in imminent danger. The lawyers said they've seen children left in homes with abusive parents and drug addicts, but this boy had a normal childhood, participated in school activities, and was on his elementary school honor roll.
4 "They are trying to make it seem like I am unfit, like I don't love my child," the boy's mother, who did not wish to be identified, told the Plain Dealer. "Of course I love him. Of course I want him to lose weight. It's a lifestyle change, and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying."
5 What do obesity experts have to say? Temporarily putting an obese child in foster care is makes more sense than alternative options - like obesity surgery, according to Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at the Children's Hospital Boston. Ludwig, who was not commenting on this particular case, raised the issue in a commentary published last July in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
CBS News reported.
6 While these kids might not be in imminent danger, Ludwig said, children with obesity-related conditions like diabetes, breathing difficulties, and liver problems could die by age 30 if no action is taken.
7 Ludwig's paper set off a
media firestorm, forcing him to defend his paper.
8 "It's absolutely understandable that if someone with an obese child heard the government could swoop in and take that child away, (they would) be frightened and outraged," Ludwig said. "I want to emphasize that foster care should only be the last resort when all other options have failed."
9 Other experts expressed doubts about the wisdom of taking kids away from their families.
10 "A 218-pound 8-year-.
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Week 9 Patient Comprehensive Exam
Walden University
NURS 6512 Advanced Health Assessment
Dr. Vijayarani Suresh
August 2, 2021
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Shadow Health Comprehensive SOAP Note Template
Patient Initials: T.J. Age:28 Gender: female
SUBJECTIVE DATA:
Chief Complaint (CC): “I’m here because I need a physical for my new job.”
History of Present Illness (HPI): T.J. is a 28-year-old African American female who is
here today for a general physical for a new job as an accounting clerk soon. She is
oriented to person, place, and time. She is calm, pleasant, and attentive. T.J. has dressed
appropriately for the season and is a good historian.
Medications: Metformin 850mg BID, last dose this morning
Flovent Inhaler two puffs twice daily, last used this morning
Albuterol Inhaler for rescue hasn’t been used recently. She states approximately three
months ago and has only used it twice last year.
Drospirenone/Ethinyl estradiol birth control, one pill daily. She started taking these four
months ago and was prescribed by her GYN MD. Last dose this morning.
Ibuprofen and Tylenol as needed
Allergies: Cats: makes asthma worse. PCN: “Not sure; I have been told this since I was a
child.” Denies any food allergies. She denies latex allergy. She states she does have some
environmental allergies.
Past Medical History (PMH): The patient has asthma, PCOS, and Type II Diabetes. She
states she checks her glucose every morning, and they have been stable. She has had
GERD in the past; however, she isn’t currently taking medication. She has only been
hospitalized for asthma as a child that she remembers and never for surgery. The patient
denies any severe injuries that would impair her. T.J. was seen for heart palpitations that
since then have subsided. She has been monitoring her blood pressure as it has fluctuated
at times but has now been normal. Last menstrual cycle was approximately two weeks
ago. The patient has never been pregnant and is up to date on her immunizations except
for the influenza vaccine. She recently had a routine pap smear; however, she needs to be
educated on how to do self-breast exams, as she states she has only had a doctor perform
this and doesn’t know what to look for. She denies any depressive or anxiety symptoms.
She has never had thoughts of harming herself or others, and She denies having a
transfusion. The patient states she was seen here a few months ago for a foot injury that
since then has subsided. She has back issues at times but is currently feeling well. The
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Week 1 Project
Identifying a Public Health Issues
Daysha Snipes
South University
Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV) and obesity is running ramped in the state of Virginia. HIV is a virus that can lead to AIDS if it is not properly diagnosed and treated. Unlike many viruses, the human body cannot rid itself completely of the virus, even when treated with proper care (HIV, n.d.). Once a person has the virus they have it for life! It is truly a life sentence. There is no cure for the virus, only medications that allow one to be comfortable as they live with the virus. HIV attacks the body’s immune system, specifically T Cells. Overtime, the destruction of these cells causes one to not be able to fight of infection or other illnesses. Oxford Dictionary, defines obesity as, the condition of being grossly overweight (Oxford, n.d.) This can be caused by poor eating habits, thyroid complications, or lack of exercise. Each one of these issues have been brought to health care providers as a major concern for the Hamptons Roads area and the state of Virginia as a whole.
HIV effects many different communities and is not specific to any race, gender, ethnicity, and or age group. It is known to widely effect the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer (LGBTQ) community yet is still a problem for all people. The reason this community takes a heavy hit to the illness is due to homosexual sexual interactions, with most of the contraction rates being male to male relationships. This is a sexually transmitted disease yet it can also be
presented in one’s life through other sources, such as, birth, heterosexual relationships, and injection drug use. If sex is a part of any person life old or the risk of contracting HIV is there.
As of 2015, it said that 21,607 people are living with AIDS in Virginia (AIDSSVU, n.d.). 73.6 percent of these people were male and 26.4 percent of this population were female. If broken down by race, 58.3 percent were black, 8.8 percent were Hispanic/Latino, and about 28.4 percent were white. The rate of black men living with the disease was 5.6 times that of their white counterparts, along with women, coming in at 16.1 times higher than white females. In 2016, there were 893 new cases of persons diagnosed with AIDS (AIDSSVU, n.d.) In Virginia, the estimated percent of AIDS diagnoses within three months of initial HIV diagnosis in 2015, was 82.3 percent diagnosed with HIV and 17.7 percent diagnosed with AIDS (AIDSSVU, n.d.). In 2015, in the male transmission category of people living with diagnosed HIV, 8.1 percent contracted the virus through drug use, 11.1 percent with heterosexual contact, 74.1 percent male-to-male sexual contact, and 5.6 percent both male-to-male contact and injection drug use, with 1.1 percent through other sources. Female transmissions were 16.5 percent injection drug use, 80.5 percent heterosexual contact, and 3.0 percent through other methods.
The state if Virginia offers many programs both on.
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undergone patient education is likely to give proper and quality care to the patients. This paper
focuses on explaining how patient education influences how care is provided in a health care
system or facility. To achieve this, the essay involves an interview process of an older person
where personal experiences about the health care system are well given. The part of the interview
is to ask questions concerning the patient's experience with their healthcare professional and the
type of education they received about their current or past health issues. Therefore, the
interviewee for this case, is Mr. Joseph Henning, an old man aged 71 years old. Joseph was
recently diagnosed with diabetes. He has had several health issues in the past which has had both
good and bad outcomes based on the healthcare professionals educating styles and applications
in relation to proper health care.
Questions asked:
1. Did the patient education representative, as well as the caregiver, give you
instructions that guide you on how to care for yourself after an operation or during
illness?
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caregiver advise you on diet, exercise, or medication?
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Running head: THE INFLUENCE OF PATIENT EDUCATION ON HEALTHCARE AMONG
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The Influence of Patient Education on Healthcare among the Elderly
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GCU
03/08/2020
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ELDERLY 3
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educate both the caregivers and the patients on how they should adjust their health behaviors to
improve their health status and of those other people next to them. A caregiver who has
undergone patient education is likely to give proper and quality care to the patients. This paper
focuses on explaining how patient education influences how care is provided in a health care
system or facility. To achieve this, the essay involves an interview process of an older person
where personal experiences about the health care system are well given. The part of the interview
is to ask questions concerning the patient's experience with their healthcare professional and the
type of education they received about their current or past health issues. Therefore, the
interviewee for this case, is Mr. Joseph Henning, an old man aged 71 years old. Joseph was
recently diagnosed with diabetes. He has had several health issues in the past which has had both
good and bad outcomes based on the healthcare professionals educating styles and applications
in relation to proper health care.
Questions asked:
1. Did the patient education representative, as well as the caregiver, give you
instructions that guide you on how to care for yourself after an operation or during
illness?
2. Did the health care professional, doctor, pharmacist, nurse, elder counselor, or
caregiver advise you on diet, exercise, or medication?
3. Who assisted you at your home or place o.
Medical Anthropology Illness narrative student sample BeaAbramMartino96
Medical Anthropology Illness narrative student sample
Beautifully and Wonderfully Made
December 21, 2013, is the anniversary of a day that Paige can’t remember. In fact, she
can’t remember a full two weeks after this day, as she was in a medically induced slumber.
Concerned family watched as she lay in isolation, hallucinating and tossing and turning, her
blood count plummeting. Today, she enthusiastically announces this day as her “re-birthday.”
Paige, 52, her husband, and her three adult daughters live in Hemet, California. She
addresses her family’s illnesses with a holistic attitude, viewing diet, exercise, and spirituality as
having as much healing potential as pharmaceutical drugs. She values doctors who share this
perspective, yet who are also aggressive and candid. Her approach to medicine reflects a union
between the Western biomedical model and the growing trend of favoring natural and organic
remedies seen among the upper/middle-class public. Until the summer of 2008, she was
unaware of just how much these professional qualities would mean to her.
Summer was vacation time when Paige worked at a local public school. Yet, as a self-
described “Type A personality,” she liked to keep herself busy with other activities. However,
Paige soon became aware that she was unusually tired and requested a blood test from her
doctor. The results came back that she was intensely anemic. She was given a prescription and
changed her diet to include iron-rich foods.
By July, she had developed a painful lump on the back of her right knee, which was
diagnosed as a torn muscle. But the lump was still there when school started in August. While
supervising a detention class, Paige stood up from her seat, heard a popping noise, and
collapsed to the ground. By the time a student had gotten help, her knee had swollen to three
times its original size. Managing the pain long enough to wait for a friend to drive her to the
hospital, Paige received an MRI and a leg brace on the assumption that she had torn her ACL.
Two days later, she received a phone call from her doctor requesting an immediate
appointment. He would even keep the office open late until Paige and her husband were
Medical Anthropology Illness narrative student sample
available. It just had to be that day. That night, they were told that the MRI revealed
deterioration in the bones of her knees. Taken with her anemia, these were signs of bone
cancer.
Two weeks after a referral to a hematologist and a bone marrow biopsy, she was
diagnosed with myelofibrosis with pernicious anemia, a serious and rare bone marrow cancer.
The hematologist explained to her that the bone marrow is like a blood factory, and Paige’s was
so scarred that it wasn’t producing any. Her body was a machine with a broken part. An
abnormal blood-producing stem cell had multiplied and replaced the bone marrow with scar
tissue. Paige’s illness, the simple ...
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1. Path to recovery
Ex-Durangoan chronicles son’s difficult diagnosis
By Dale Rodebaugh Herald staff writer Article Last Updated: Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:33pm
Patients must not allow themselves to be put off when they hurt, and medical practitioners must
learn to listen to their complaints.
The foregoing message comes from a former Durango resident and her teenage son who chronicled his
tortuous journey to find the cause for and treatment for excruciating abdominal pain that confounded
doctors for 18 months.
Vicki Whiting and her son Kevin, who turns 18 years old today, tell their story with In Pain We Trust,
published by Blooming Twig Books.
Kevin was the victim of a rare, congenital affliction, Wilkes Syndrome, which occurs when the superior
mesenteric artery lies on top of the small intestine instead of behind it. The results can be a flattening
of the intestine and the blockage of food and bodily liquids.
Vicki Whiting, a business professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, was reared in Durango
and is a graduate of Durango High School. She is the daughter of Reg and Bev Graham of Durango
and the sister of former City Councilor Scott Graham.
“Doctors are well-intentioned, but they’re trapped in a system that doesn’t allow them to take time with
patients,” said Vicki Whiting last week from Utah in a telephone interview. “On one occasion, a
specialist spent six minutes with Kevin.”
In early 2007, Kevin, then 13, began to exhibit symptoms that were written off as the flu. But by
September he was in pain, which at times was unmanageable, his mother said.
“They didn’t believe me,” Kevin said in a telephone call. “I knew my body and they didn’t.”
A feeding tube was inserted into Kevin’s abdomen beyond the blockage to keep him alive. But he
continued to lose weight, and over time dropped from 90 to 63 pounds.
Rodebaugh, Dale. "Path to Recovery." Durango Herald. Durango Herald, 15 Jan. 2012. Web. 22
Mar. 2013.
2. The family physician, Dr. Brian Rush, sent Kevin to specialists who diagnosed anorexia and put Kevin
on antidepressents and antianxiety medication, which pushed him to the brink of suicide.
“We went to Australia at the end of the year because we’d heard about medicines that might help
Kevin,” Whiting said. “The trip also was to get away from the predetermined notion that he was
suffering from anorexia.”
Back in the United States, Kevin attended school irregularly and was hospitalized three times with pain
so severe that morphine didn’t totally override it, Vicki Whiting said.
A re-examination led to a correct diagnosis of Kevin’s ailment, and he had an operation in September
2008 in which surgeons severed an intestine and put it in front of the mesenteric artery.
Intestinal damage, however, required Kevin to be fed by a catheter for seven months although he began
to take food by mouth. In the ensuing months he grew nine inches and put 40 pounds on his frame.
In spite of sporadic seat time at school over two years, tutoring and summer classes will allow Kevin to
graduate this year with his peers at Park City (Utah) High School. He wants to study at Pepperdine
College and become a pediatric surgeon.
Shelly Braun, who teaches medical anthropology at Westminster College, participates in the Utah
Health Policy Project, a nonprofit that tackles problems of rising health-care costs and the uninsured.
The delivery of medical treatment must be patient-oriented, she said in a telephone conversation.
“We need to improve clinical medical care,” Braun said. “Doctors don’t put listening to patients at the
top of the list. One side effect of electronic systems is that doctors will be looking at a computer for
medical records while talking to a patient.”
Patients become identified by an impersonal medical condition rather than as a person, Braun said.
The extra work doctors must do in this computer age results in errors, less care for patients and higher
costs.
Vicki Whiting recalled that in Australia, a gastroenterologist spent 45 minutes with Kevin and then ran
the case before a board of six colleagues. The total cost: $40.
Rush, the Whiting family doctor, agrees that changes are needed in the delivery of health care in
Rodebaugh, Dale. "Path to Recovery." Durango Herald. Durango Herald, 15 Jan. 2012. Web. 22
Mar. 2013.