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The Effects Of Health Care On Healthcare

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Health care has changed significantly from it has used to be in the past and is still continuing to change and progress rapidly. The entire system has done a complete evolution from what it used to be and now the amazing technology, advances in medicine and health care economics are contributing factors to its rapid progression. We also need to remember that health care has become a booming business and patients have shifted into consumers changing the health care delivery models in a variety of ways for the future. Past There are a lot of ways that health care has changed in so many ways that have shaped and also contributed to its change. In the past, outside of health care society was dealing with a lot of barriers that included segregation and discrimination. In the health care system, unfortunately it wasn’t all too different as there were preferences of patient segregation and discrimination in the health care medical and education system. Another shift that occurred and changed from the past are the lengths of patient stays and their recovery turnarounds. For example, in the past it was common for a woman to be succumbed to a 10 day stay in the hospital after giving birth. This is a drastic change to our more standard 24-hour turnaround. In the past, it was also more apparent to see a Physician. This caused a lot of physician burn outs because doctors were continually on-call. Now we have nurse practitioners and Physician Assistants who are able to

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