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Pediatric Essays and Term Papers
Munchausen Syndrome By ProxyJamie was three years old and had been hospitalized thirty times for illnesses such as pneumonia, asthma, sudden fevers, and numerous mysterious infections. After countless tests and investigations into Jamie’s illnesses, doctors could find no apparent causes and were baffled. They began to ...
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Prozac: Harmful Or Helpful?Many people suffer from depression at some point in their lives. Among women in western countries, major depression is by far the most common illness (Shorter 43). Treatment for depression varies among health care providers, but the prescription of antidepressants seems to be the most common ...
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Is Ritalin Over Prescribed?Imagine for a moment that you are nine years old again. You are sitting in your third grade classroom trying as hard as you can to listen to your teacher, but you just can't. The heater is making this clicking sound that won't stop and the class hamster is running all over his cage. Further more, ...
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Hiroshima (book Report)Chapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash
The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo ...
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Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site PainINTRODUCTION
Therapeutic touch has been shown to decrease patients anxiety levels and
increase their pain tolerance levels when other more mainstream therapies have
not been completely effective. "Therapeutic touch is a process by which energy
is transmitted from one person to another for the ...
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Influences Of SocraticInfant Circumcision: Can they really feel it?
As an American living in the twentieth century, I can state with certainty that one of the biggest things we pride ourselves on is our technological superiority and advances in healthcare. That is why I was so shocked to learn that most infants who ...
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Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday LifeIntroduction
Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and
tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest
congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may
seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as ...
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Lime DiseaseLyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme ...
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Klinefelter Syndrome -Klinefelter syndrome, also called testicular dysgenesis, is the phenotype of the 47,XXY genotype and is characterized by male hypogonadism and infertility. Klinefelter Syndrome is probably the most common chromosomal variation found in humans. In random surveys, it is found to appear about once in ...
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Male Circumcision: A Social And Medical MisconceptionUniversity of Johns Hopkins
Introduction
Male circumcision is defined as a surgical procedure in which the prepuce
of the penis is separated from the glands and excised. (Mosby, 1986) Dating as
far back as 2800 BC, circumcision has been performed as a part of religious
ceremony, as a puberty ...
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Ritalin And Its UsesIn recent years, more and more kids seem to be on a prescription drug
called Ritalin(methylphenidate). This drug is being handed out more and more by
doctors as a way of treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a complex
neurological impairnment that prevents kids from concentrating. ...
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AZTThe AIDS virus is one of the most deadly and most wide spread diseases
in the modern era. The disease was first found in 1981 as doctors around the
United States began to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare
pneumonia caused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These ...
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Down Syndromeis a combination of birth defects including some degree of mental retardation and characteristic facial features. It is also called trisomy 21. occurs when there is an abnormality in chromosome 21. It is found in approximately 1 out of 1000 all live births. Each year, 3,000 to 5,000 people ...
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Flexible Benefits PlanThe employees of today’s workforce are divers. With such a workforce at hand, an employer must have a flexible benefit plan to match the composition of its employees. Flexible benefit plans are a written plan under which employees of a company are allowed to choose two or more benefits ...
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Amazing Grace By Jonathan KozolAt first glance, it seems that the author is going to take us on yet another journalistic ride through the land of the poor. Similar to the ones you read about, or hear in the news. However, this is not the case; the real underlying theme is what is society doing about the plight of the poor? ...
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Something Wicked This Way ComeWill the Real Heroes Please Stand Up
The world today is filled with great heroes. Unfortunately, our culture has a tendency to confuse hero worship with the character of a true hero. How then, is a hero defined? Is it someone who is brave, honest and who’s attributes are beneficial to ...
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The Effects Of Lead Poison On ChildrenThroughout the world today one out of every six children under the age
of six are suffering from health disorders due to a poisonous metal known as
lead(Kiwanis, 1996). Lead is a natural occurring bluish-grey metal found in the
earth's crust. It has no taste or smell. Lead can easily be found ...
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Female Infanticide In IndiaInfanticide was a topic that I was very emotional about. I could
never understand how a mother or father could kill an infant or child. It
would make my blood boil whenever I read or listened to a news story
involving the murder or abandonment of an infant. How could someone just
disregard a life ...
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HiroshimaChapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash
The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a ...
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's DiseaseInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that
cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often
IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease but may be referred
to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis ...
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