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This article talks about the affect the Affordable Care Act will have on the doctors. The majority doctors believe it will have a negative effect, not just on their salaries but also the access they will have to technology for practicing medicine.

Many doctors do not take mental illness as serious as they do a physical illness. They do not follow up with their mentally ill patients as much as they do with their physically ill patients. This is not a good trend because most patients seek help for their mental health with their primary doctor. Although experts are trying to curb this by suggesting that depression screenings are done with a persons physical exam.

The U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter that would criticize abortion and end the disgrace of having an abortion under law.

My mother was born to an unwed 15 year old in 1940. My mother was given away in adoption to a family member. My grandmother wanted to have my mom (she had fallen in love with a service man who was killed in German) but her mom wanted her to have an abortion. It was illegal in those days and my grandmother refused to go to the "special doctor." So she was shipped away to a home for girls like her in Chicago to have my mom. My story is different then most. I am a product of a saved baby. Without my grandmother fighting for my mom, myself, my brother, my children, we would be dead. It is harder to speak to a child that survived abortion. No one has the right to tell me that we do not have the right to live. I am so grateful that abortion was illegal. I am so grateful that my beautiful children are alive.We are blessed.

Whenever this issue comes up one thing always pops into my head. My body, my choice. I am a female that was born and raised in the Catholic church and had to listen to this stuff for years. It never made sense to me why so many people try revoking this right from women. If you don't support it, fine. However, to take the option away from women who do want abortion as an option opens up even more negative doors. When women do not have a safe environment to discuss these options and the operation itself is made illegal then women who are desperate are more likely to go to back alley doctors or try to perform their own abortion. This often leads to more deaths among women whether it be from a botched, cheap operation or a horrific infection. It should also be noted that each woman is different. They might want the option of abortion for various reasons. Perhaps something is wrong with the child, and the doctors note it won't live past a couple of days, maybe the woman was raped and ended up pregnant, perhaps the fetus was dying and was also killing the mother, perhaps the woman just doesn't want children. You never know the circumstances of why a woman chooses to have an abortion, and they should never be judged for it or have that right revoked.

A group of medical proffesors, urges hospitals to fill the void and bring back abortion. Proffesors in 1972 predicted that, freestanding clinics would be unnecessary if hospitals cooperate in handling their share. However due to political pressure, or as we say "bribery," schools are giving up the right to provide or teach abortions, making it less common to provide them.

This scholarly article is from the journal of medicine it addresses the ethics for doctors behind physicians assisted suicide

This scholarly article is from the journal of medicine it addresses the ethics for doctors behind physicians assisted suicide

Original: Up through the early 1920's, diphtheria was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases in the United States, killing over 10,000 people every year. We started vaccinating children against diphtheria in the 1930's and 40's, and the disease started disappearing. Today it is rare for a doctor even to see a case of diphtheria, much less have a child die from it. Paraphrase: Killing over 10,000 people a year in the U.S, diphtheria proved to be one of the most feared youth diseases up until the early 1920's. Once doctors began vaccinating children for diphtheria in the 1930's the disease began to vanish. In today's world it is rare for a doctor to see a patient with diphtheria thanks to common vaccinations.

Dr Howard Jones, the doctor responsible for opening the first IVF clinic in the nation in 1981 weighs in on the controversial Personhood Bill in Virginia.

Dr Howard Jones, the doctor responsible for opening the first IVF clinic in the nation in 1981 weighs in on the controversial Personhood Bill in Virginia.

Lots of people are suffering from a lack of health insurance. Hard to find good doctors that are able to help your needs. Health insurance is exspenisve and people cant afford it.

This article describes the various ways that POC are treated differently. This can cause doctors to provide the wrong treatment or no treatment for the minority who don't have access to healthcare.

The fact that we continue to face and see discrimination when it comes to health care is appalling. When dealing with health, health care providers should not be biased on who to help due to their skin color or certain characteristics.

There is no reason why there should still be discrimination in health care, they're saving your life regardless of your color.

Doctors have a set guideline of how to diagnose and treat children with ADHD, but these guidelines are generally not followed. Often times medication is used too soon while other times medication is not offered at all .

Website provides the pros and cons on ten issues dealing with assisted suicide. There is also a lot of great info in the links on the left side. One has comments from medical doctors stating why they believe in assisted suicide or not and there is another where visitors to the site can do the same. Information about stances on assisted suicide throughout history and in other countries are also on the left side.

The state that brought you the chain-gang enforcing Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, the "show me your papers" immigration law, and racial profiling is proud to present its latest hit: a law prohibiting sex and raced-based abortion, based on lies and stereotypes about black and Asian women. The woman and doctor must also sign an affidavit stating the reason the woman wants an abortion has nothing to do with the race or sex of the embryo or fetus.

Wow, I honestly had no idea this was going on. The law prohibits abortions based on the sex or race of the fetus or embryo, This is an extreme injustice! I can't believe we still face this kind of inequality.

A New Yorker article about whether primary care doctors should treat mental illness with the shortage of Psychiatrists available to meet demand.

Presecutors state, " Arizona's law allows motorist who are not impaired to drive with precription drugs in their system, if their using them under doctors order." However this doesn't pretain to MM Cardholders, MM Cardholders are supposibely recommeded and not prescribed. Just because of this MM cardholders face possible DUI's and/or driver license or Medical Marijuana Cards getting taken away.

A recount of "Personhood bill" proponents being faced with the stories of infertility veterans who make the argument that they, individuals who'd do anything to have a child (such as Artificial Reproductive Technology) are now the ones being penalized at the stake of individuals who are opting not to give life to their unborn children.

A recount of "Personhood bill" proponents being faced with the stories of infertility veterans who make the argument that they, individuals who'd do anything to have a child (such as Artificial Reproductive Technology) are now the ones being penalized at the stake of individuals who are opting not to give life to their unborn children.

One doctors research on boy/girl toys and the effect they have on children. "Boy" toys promote masculinity whereas "girl" toys promote femininity.

In order to receive social security income for a child with a disability very tough criterias are needed to be met to qualify. Parents of disable children often face more bills due to special doctors, schools and their childs daily needs

The social bias in the healthcare in America is ridiculously bad. It costs thousands of dollars to get checked out by a doctor and thousands more for a life saving surgery. Where some people get cheaper for better?

This article compares what Americans spend on health care to other high-income nations such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Compared to these countries, Americans spend nearly twice as much on health care. The article goes over the causes of this such as obesity and expensive technology as well as affects such as higher rate of death from preventable causes and less doctor visits than average.

During WW2 the US government not only allowed, but gave the order for doctors to inject random citizens with plutonium or uranium. They had tested this on animals with adverse reactions, and somehow still concluded it would be a good idea to test on the human population.