Unit 4 Concept O Analysis

If the patient’s prescriber feels the patient will benefit from a drug from the higher

"Children, young people, their parents or legal guardians, and health care professionals in all settings make decisions about medicines based on sound information about risk and benefit. They have access to safe and effective medicines that are prescribed on the basis of the best available evidence" (Caldwell, 2013).

Shared decision-making involves an open and honest conversation between the clinician and the patient. It is a collaboration that takes into account treatment options and the patient’s values and preferences. It gives a patient a voice in their own care. Therefore, pure placebo-prescribing is ethical when the patient has a say – which can foster a placebo effect within the patient. Not from the pill “itself, but rather from the relationship between [the] healer and [the] patient, and the latter’s own capacity for self-healing” (Brody, 1982, 117). In other words, the context in which the pure placebo is prescribed can influence its positive results. Contrastingly, when patients are left out of the decision-making process, there is no room for the clinician’s and patient’s relationship to grow. It also raises the possibility of deception – a concept appearing in almost all of the medical literature on placebo-prescribing in clinical practice.

ESSENCE OF THE STORY: In the past few years, opioid addiction has become an epidemic in the United States leading to around 64,000 people dying from drug overdose in 2016 alone. As a result the health and human services secretary, Mr. Azar, and the F.D.A. chief, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, has made battling opioid addiction a top priority. The main way the F.D.A. is attempting to battle the epidemic is by allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell new types of medications that aren’t meant to stop addiction but to help suppress the cravings of addiction. The new medication that the F.D.A is approving is supposed to be a part of the program MAT, or medication-assisted-treatment. Mr. Azar as well as Dr. Scott have been pushing for more MAT in hope to help people with addiction live productive lives. Though like most big changes in society, the F.D.A’s decision has drawn criticism. Addiction experts are saying that new medication isn’t the solution but more access to the medication is.

Discussion how “words of comfort” encapsulated the books take on medicine, I feel that these words are showing us how in medicine being a caring and sympathetic health care provider is important. (Verghese, 2009) In the book relationships with patients is shown to be as important as the care they are providing. Knowing how much technology and medicine has advanced in the last years I feel that no matter how good the scientific side of it is there has to be a relationship with the health care providers and patients. It is proven that a positive relationship helps a patient recover faster. Relationships can help in many ways just having someone to talk to, give feedback, and encouragement are all way relationships are able to benefit and speed up recovery. (Brainline, 2015)

As a PTA I have been given a breath of knowledge in regard to the profession of physical therapy. However, I am not satisfied with this breath of knowledge. I yearn for the opportunity to gain a further understanding in terms of “how and why” physical therapy is successful at restoring function to individuals seeking

The message I want to convey is that you should never give up. No one has control over you, but yourself. So, don’t let anyone push you down. There will be darkness at times in your life but reach out to those who love you, fore they will bring out the light you need and give you strength. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr once said, “darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do

medications , and the specialty pharmacy gold rush is on. The battle to control the patient

We in America tend to take medications for almost any problem we have, from headaches to gastrointestinal pain, to more serious chronic disorders such as depression and attention deficit disorder. While many of the uses of such medications may be necessary and legitimate, many are not, and due to this fact, many people become dependent on medications, mentally, and or physically. This problem is not simply the fault of the individual; in fact, the blame can also be placed upon the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies who produce the drugs. How often can one turn on the television to see advertisements for Claritin, Aspirin, Pepto-Bismol, or even Zoloft or Ritalin? The pharmaceutical industry is motivated by monetary

It is very important to know how to cope with and manage symptoms of RA. For example, my family member who went through the experiences of RA, and developed depression when she found out she has to take multiple medications, which had dangerous symptoms. She has gotten better over time, but that is only with the help and support of family and close friends. One way to manage the symptoms of RA was continuing to do things she enjoyed. In other words, the symptoms of RA cause stress and it is important that patients stay mentally positive. By doing activities a person loves, people will “feel good,” and be optimistic about life, and managing the symptoms of RA. Therefore, it is important to have the support of family and friends when dealing Rheumatoid Arthritis

People all over the world, continue to be tendered prescription medication, which in many cases further complicate health issues with its myriad of side effects. In fact, statistics have shown that approximately 100,000 people around the world die as a result of prescription drugs annually (Smith, 2012). On the contrary, according

The agonising thing is no one can help. Nothing, not even your medication. So keep you “prescription” and “medication”

With access to prescription drugs, people are able to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses. These drugs help deal with pain, inability to sleep, depression, and much more. Every day we are increasingly living in a world where there is better living through chemicals. However, what most do not seem to see is the rising tide of pain, illness, and ultimately death being caused by the pills people take every day. Most keep drugs in a special place in their minds, where they see them as harmless. Sadly, this is not the case, and in some cases our prescription drugs can be just as harmful as illegal drugs (King 68).

Figure 3 depicts the different therapeutic pathway being focused on; with 36.5% of trials investigating the development of symptomatic agents and 35.1% focusing on disease-modifying small molecules, with the remaining 23% focusing on immunotherapies, therapeutic devices and stem cell research. Throughout the past decade 244 agents in the United States alone were proposed for marketing, with only one being approved, memantine, indicating a success rate of only 0.4%, the lowest out of any therapeutic industry. The study also identified the fail rate for each stage of clinical trials; was extremely high, decreasing the likelihood of drug progressing to the next stage (Cummings, Morstorf & Zhong

While reading it I was sad, then hopeful, and then happy. The first couple line of the of the poem really set the poem up for success. Pugh wrote,” Sometimes things don't go, after all, / from bad to worse…,” (1-2). I think that this opening quote is amazingly written. This quote tells the reader that things will get better and to have hope.