Should a medical school be responsible to provide transport to hospitals for medical studies?Why?


Posted May 4th, 2010 by admin 6 Comments »
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Parames asked:


Medical studies are conducted in hospitals during 3rd year of medical studies.I have a friend who is trying very hard to get her medical school to provide the university’s own bus transport from the university’s hostel to the hospital. The university’s management has refused to do so.But next week they are giving her a chance to speak her mind.Please help contribute a few points to help her win the case.She is all on her own.
THANK YOU.

What is the law for a medical facility to timely produce my medical records?


Posted April 18th, 2010 by admin 2 Comments »
medical
Dave asked:


I live in washington State and I requested my medical records from the institution I was treated at and have not obtained the records yet. I have also not been told a date as to when I might to expet them. To my knowledge, I believe that thereis a 15 day period that medical institutions had to provide me, or inform me as to when I might receive my medical recrds. Is this grounds for a lawsuit?

docs should supply medical history?


Posted March 21st, 2010 by admin 4 Comments »
medical supply
robert asked:


I requested a copy of my full medical history from 2005 - 2009

I assume in this will be all my blood test results, referrals, medication prescribed, tests done.

Would this also include the doctors notes????

I am very very interested as to what my doctor has on their computer about me.
I am about to start a legal case and need all of this information…..i know the doctor is scared.
I told him that i had been mis diagnosed for 5 years despite the drugs never working and needed my medical history. He almost fell off his chair once i showed him some evidence of my claims.

Anyways back to my question.

The notes that my doctor writes on the computer are available at request?
Medical history covers the above things??
i dont want to sue my doctors

i only want to sue my landlord….i made this clear to my doctor once he had picked himself back up lol

Its been over a week now….im going to go and demand it tomorrow lol

Can someone put these medical ethic directives in a simpler for for me to undeerstand and discuss?


Posted February 15th, 2010 by admin 1 Comment »
medical
Sienna’s mommy asked:


Directives

55. Catholic health care institutions offering care to persons in danger of death from illness, accident, advanced age, or similar condition should provide them with appropriate opportunities to prepare for death. Persons in danger of death should be provided with whatever information is necessary to help them understand their condition and have the opportunity to discuss their condition with their family members and care providers. They should also be offered the appropriate medical information that would make it possible to address the morally legitimate choices available to them. They should be provided the spiritual support as well as the opportunity to receive the sacraments in order to prepare well for death.

56. A person has a moral obligation to use ordinary or proportionate means of preserving his or her life. Proportionate means are those that in the judgment of the patient offer a reasonable hope of benefit and do not entail an excessive burden or impose excessive expense on the family or the community.40

57. A person may forgo extraordinary or disproportionate means of preserving life. Disproportionate means are those that in the patient’s judgment do not offer a reasonable hope of benefit or entail an excessive burden, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community.41

58. There should be a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration to all patients, including patients who require medically assisted nutrition and hydration, as long as this is of sufficient benefit to outweigh the burdens involved to the patient.

59. The free and informed judgment made by a competent adult patient concerning the use or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures should always be respected and normally complied with, unless it is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.

60. Euthanasia is an action or omission that of itself or by intention causes death in order to alleviate suffering. Catholic health care institutions may never condone or participate in euthanasia or assisted suicide in any way. Dying patients who request euthanasia should receive loving care, psychological and spiritual support, and appropriate remedies for pain and other symptoms so that they can live with dignity until the time of natural death.42

61. Patients should be kept as free of pain as possible so that they may die comfortably and with dignity, and in the place where they wish to die. Since a person has the right to prepare for his or her death while fully conscious, he or she should not be deprived of consciousness without a compelling reason. Medicines capable of alleviating or suppressing pain may be given to a dying person, even if this therapy may indirectly shorten the person’s life so long as the intent is not to hasten death. Patients experiencing suffering that cannot be alleviated should be helped to appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.

62. The determination of death should be made by the physician or competent medical authority in accordance with responsible and commonly accepted scientific criteria.

63. Catholic health care institutions should encourage and provide the means whereby those who wish to do so may arrange for the donation of their organs and bodily tissue, for ethically legitimate purposes, so that they may be used for donation and research after death.

64. Such organs should not be removed until it has been medically determined that the patient has died. In order to prevent any conflict of interest, the physician who determines death should not be a member of the transplant team.

65. use of tissue or organs from an infant may be permitted after death has been determined and with the informed consent of the parents or guardians.

66. Catholic health care institutions should not make use of human tissue obtained by direct abortions even for research and therapeutic purposes

How will employees in the medical office have to be trained regarding privacy?


Posted January 18th, 2010 by admin 2 Comments »
LaKeia asked:


How will employees in the medical office have to be
trained regarding privacy (for example, who is responsible
for training and record keeping)? What is required if
an employee doesn’t follow the privacy policy? When
must employees be trained? In what manner?

Is it illiegal to pose as a nurse in TX?


Posted November 9th, 2009 by admin 6 Comments »
medical supplies
anakinjade1 asked:


My friend is a medical supplies distributor. A former coworked posed as a nurse and called in complaining my friend gave her the wrong meds and was rude. There is a long story, but that is for a different time.
I know it is illegal to pose as a nurse in AZ, but what about in TX? Where can I get verification of this??

How Do i Obtain a Michigan Medical marijuana caregiver card?


Posted October 8th, 2009 by admin 1 Comment »
medical supplies
stephen asked:


I want the caregiver card, to supply it to Michigan Marijuana patients?

Can the Post Office refuse to deliver mail/medical supplies?


Posted October 7th, 2009 by admin 1 Comment »
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Heavy Fed asked:


My name is Charles Gilliam AKA Heavy Fed, the founder of Heavy’s HEART(Human Earth Animal Rescue Team) in La Porte, Texas.

After fighting a battle with the Port of Houston and winning my property back after they obtained a fraudulent title and bulldozed everything I had, I found myself under attack by the City of La Porte, and after defeating their attempt to get me off of my own property, I now have found myself under attack from the Post Office after someone from the City told them that I did not own the property I was living on, that I was just a squatter.

The Post Office had been delivering my mail to my mailbox until they were told that.

They stopped delivering… and after a week I missed my mail so I went down to ask why it was stopped.

They delivery supervisor there told me that they had been told the property did not belong to me by the City… and that I needed to prove it did before they would resume delivery.

I returned the next day with a tax bill in my deceased grandmothers name show that the property did in fact belong to her… and I also showed them documentation that I was the Executor of her estate and that I had not yet changed the property into my name as a tactic to keep the City from taking property that belonged to me away from me… that they could not take away what does not belong to me.

The delivery supervisor seemed satisfied with documentation and made copies and I left… thinking my mail would resume.

After another week of not receiving any mail… I again returned to the Post Office and again asked why my mail was not being delivered.

The delivery supervisor told me that because my mailbox was not in the ground that they would not deliver my mail.

I had purposely kept my mailbox move-able because of all of the construction and destruction going on around me… I wanted to be able to move it if I needed to do so.

I went home about poured about four sacks of concrete around my mailbox, securing it to the ground solidly and returned to the Post Office the very next day and told them I had done so.

After about another week of waiting for my mail and not seeing any… I returned once again to the Post Office and this time was told by the delivery supervisor that according to Postal Regulations they could not deliver mail to a residence that did not have any utilities going to it… that they needed to see something like an electric or water bill before they would resume delivery.

I was pissed… I had been jumping through hoops for the for several months by then… so I requested to see the Postmaster who reaffirmed what the delivery supervisor had said.

I left angry.

I returned about a week later and filed a change of address requesting that my mail be delivered to a friends address just a few blocks away from mine.

This I thought would solve the problem.

All of this time… the Post Office had been returning my mail marking it, EMPTY LOT.

I am a disabled activist with diabetes… they had been returning my mail from Social Security, my food stamps cards and most importantly my glucose meter and diabetic supplies.

I had no way of testing my blood sugar and as a result could not take my insulin.

I called the company that had been trying to get my supplies to me in vain for several months now and told them what was going on and that I THOUGHT I had it all straightened out now and asked them to resend it.

I figured it would take a while to get forwarded so I waited about a month… in the meantime I also called Health and Human Services and told them what had happened and asked them to resend my food stamp card they had been trying to get to me.

After about a month of not receiving either… called Health and Human Services to ask what had happened… they said the new card they sent out was returned because the Post Office would not forward a food stamp card.

The man at Health and Human services asked if I could cancel my forwarding and arrange to pick up my mail at the Post Office and I told him I thought I could. He said he would put another card in the mail for me right away.

So… once more I returned to the Post Office and told them I wanted to cancel my forwarding and just pick up mail addressed to my address over the counter.

The delivery supervisor told me that I could not pick up my mail that way… that they were not going to have the workers there wasting their time going back and looking for my mail.

So… now here I sit… after five months of jumping through hoops and fighting with the Post Office… I now have about six months worth of food stamps just sitting in my account with no way to access it!

I am also still without my glucose meter and diabetic supplies… and I am suffering for it.

My legs are covered in sores because my blood sugar is so out of whack… and I don’t have enough money to eat right.

I have been feeling so bad lately than I have not been doing my volunteer wo

Could I file any type of harrassment charge against security of my work for confiscating my medical supplies?


Posted September 28th, 2009 by admin 3 Comments »
medical supply
Matt asked:


I have to carry around a plastic syringe and a catheter for medical reasons. For Irrigation of the bladder due to a mucus build up. If I were to get them taken away for any reason could I take it to court or anything?

Could I file any type of harrassment charge against security of my work for confiscating my medical supplies?


Posted September 28th, 2009 by admin 3 Comments »
medical supply
Matt asked:


I have to carry around a plastic syringe and a catheter for medical reasons. For Irrigation of the bladder due to a mucus build up. If I were to get them taken away for any reason could I take it to court or anything?