... such graphic exposure. People suffering from this experience physical, emotional and cognitive effects.(Mitchell 86). CIS reaction's are incident specific. They may be either Acute or Delayed.(Mitchell 81) An acute CIS reaction begins while the ESW is engaged with on scene operations. It is an incident that is often very disturbing for ESW's and may become physically ill as a result of the intense stress level associated with the event.(Bush Fire Services 92). Under particularly stressing circumstances some maybe unable to function properly at the scene or at a later date. This happens for example in the case of a death of a fellow worker in the line of duty ...
Words: 875 - Pages: 4
... state and no longer able to function, their life is by all practical means over. There is no reason to keep them alive. The only way to end their physical life is by euthanasia. The question is whether to do this by way of active euthanasia or passive euthanasia. Many are against active euthanasia because in this case you actually kill the person rather than letting them die. But both methods are used for the same end which is to end someone's life without further pain for the patient as well as for the family. The only choice to make after this fact is established is which of these means better carries out the end. James Rachels, a philosophy profes ...
Words: 874 - Pages: 4
... For instance, a doctor who would have had to pay Rs. 125 annually now has to pay up to Rs. 1500. These costs will only be passed along to the patients in the long run, and the condition is only going to worsen. Take for example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year. Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held liable. This condition, already appearing in India, could be ...
Words: 946 - Pages: 4
... of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate that it is the result of some disease process. In fact the symptoms of were dismissed as normal consequences of human aging. After that, in the 1980's, AD came to be recognized as the most common cause of intellectual deterioration in the elderly and the middle-aged. Now it is also recognized as the major single cause of senility, or senile dementia. Hardly a month goes by without the discovery of a new gene, protein, or chemical process that contributes to this devastating illness. AD, being the most common cause of cognitive decline or dementia in the US, affects 3 to 4 million older adults. 6 to 8% ...
Words: 382 - Pages: 2
... subway system on March 20, 1995. The five packages were disguised to look like lunch boxes or soda conta iners and it was reported that the chemical agent used was an impure or dilute solution of sarin, a nerve agent developed by Nazi Germany during the '30's. This was the beginning of a frightening future for the modern world. "Organized and indiscriminat e murder" (Tokyo, A1) on a large scale is clearly possible and chemical weapons are likely to be a terrorist's vehicle for mass destruction. The threat of terrorist use of chemical weapons is now quickly forcing its way into the thoughts of people all around the world. The attack in Japan, "says Israeli terrori ...
Words: 3821 - Pages: 14
... vary in size and mood altering effect. The hemp plant ha s many uses and has been farmed for centuries. Marijuana can be taken in three ways, by eating, made into a tea, or smoking (the most popular). Smoking it can be done three ways, through a pipe, a joint, blunt. A joint is a rolled piece of paper that is twisted at the ends. A blunt is normally an emptied cigar wrapper filled with marijuana. In a blunt you can fit much more marijuana. Though a blunt isn't always purely marijuana, it can be mixed with other drugs such as angel dust. The results are varied when someone smokes marijuana. Different people will get different results, and certai ...
Words: 1055 - Pages: 4
... American Indians that can be used as guidelines in understa nding tribal beliefs about illness and healing. Most tribes have the beliefs that their medicine people have “extra” that others don't. This power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or counselor. The Hopi tribe has Effie, a medicine women who learned the art of using herbs. Each person is effective an ...
Words: 1010 - Pages: 4
... theory has a biological perspective to cognitive development and focuses on broad, qualitative stages. Another acknowledged theory is the information- processing theory which, approaches cognitive development from a computer accentuated perspective, and focuses on the more narrow, continuous, quantitative changes (Westen, 1996). Though these theories approach cognitive development from different angles, their advancements into how a child constructs thought and thinks are not totally at odds with one another as they similarly compare in some aspects. This essay will discuss how these two theories compare and contrast, and in conclusion elucidate why Mary's ...
Words: 1148 - Pages: 5
... and in 1895, Freud, along with another fellow physician, published their findings and theories on the study of hysteria. In The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas, the character Lisa does not exhibit the above form of hysteria, but rather a manifestation of reality. Her own reality has become too imprisoned, and she escapes it by creating another Lisa that is nothing like her person. The traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is not usually conscious of them. Two drives, one for sexual pleasure and the other called aggression, motivate and propel most behaviors in ...
Words: 1348 - Pages: 5
... happen to all Americans of any age, and of any race, and ethnic groups. This disease hits the elderly the hardest, because they don't really have anyone to take care of them. And somethimes they get forgetful and don't take medication or their insulin shots. Heres a question "What is ?" The word diabetes describes either a deficiency of insulin or a decreased ablitby of the body to use insulin. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas. Insulin allows sugar to enter body cells to be converted in to energy. It is also needed to synthesize protein and store fats. In uncontrolled diabetes glucose and lipids remain in teh bloodstream, with time, damage teh body's ...
Words: 646 - Pages: 3
