...Book Report Info Sharon Kaufman, a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, used an ethnographic process to approach her subject. She spent two years studying three California hospitals by immersing herself in the hospital culture. She followed, observed, and interviewed nurses, physicians, therapists, patients, family members, social workers, and others while trying to understand the factors that led to the prevailing practices. She was particularly interested in how hospitals organized dying as a result of acculturated behavior that was regarded as normal and unproblematic by practitioners who did not understand the origins of the behavior. She discovered how hospitals shape medical practices, how shared medical rhetoric frames decision making about dying patients, and how cultural factors determine the way death occurs in the hospital and even which patients are considered to be dying by physicians and nurses. Kaufman was particularly intrigued by patterns of social behavior. She observed that today death usually is orchestrated by professionals in hospitals and no longer is waited for, a transition that has markedly shortened the “waiting time” for dying. She found that hospital procedures and bureaucracy produced the imperative to “move things along,” mandating that health care professionals expedite decision making and produce the conditions for death. She identified “pathways” for moving things along, such as heroic intervention...
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...4-MAT Book Review Instructions The 4-MAT review system is a way of responding to readings that requires the learner to interact with new ideas on several levels. You will write a 4-MAT Book Review of Leming & Dickinson's book, Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement. Your paper must follow current APA format (title page, APA headers, introduction section, body of report divided with APA Level 1 (and possibly Level 2) headings, citations, formal Conclusion section, and a separate page for References. The paper must be at least 10 pages (not counting the cover and reference page). First person writing is acceptable throughout parts 2, 3, and 4 of your book review. Use the following format in preparing your 4-MAT Book Review: 1. Summary: Summarize what you have read as if you were the author condensing the book into 4 pages. This section is not a commentary or listing of topics, but rather an in-depth, yet concise, insightful examination of the content. 2. Concrete responses: In at least 2 pages, relate a personal or professional life episode that this book connected to within your own life experience. Relate your story in 1st person, describing action, words, and emotions you remember. In the teaching style of Jesus, this is a do-it-yourself parable, case study, or confession. You will remember more of what you have read when you make this critical, personal connection. This is your chance to tell your story and make new ideas found in the book your own...
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...majority of written works, whether in magazines, newspapers, short stories, or novels, are delivered electronically. I don't imagine that everyone believes the computer screen and Web page is the preferred format for the consumption of this kind of content. I know that industry analyst Tim Bajarin made the argument in a recent column that future generations of e-book readers will offer color screens (I guess that's a good thing), and he suggests that a copy of Harry Potter might benefit from having an embedded video clip from the movie. I disagree. When I want to read a novel, I want to read a novel. I don't need to be distracted by multimedia, or even color, to help me imagine the story. My mind is quite adept at painting a picture with the words I'm reading. For me, that's the allure of a good, rip-roaring novel. The minute that publishers start producing e-books with "enhancements," we'll witness the beginning of the end of that format for the written word. The good news is that we're not there yet. For now, there are stores and libraries crammed full of paper books, and new ones published every day. The e-book phenomenon is just starting to take hold, and the rare color model, like the one from Fujitsu, is available only for pre-order right now. This means that products like the Kindle 2 are still bleeding-edge curiosities that offer their share of...
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...Increasing Profits by Opening the Books - BusinessWeek keyword, company, ticker Available on the iPad SPECIAL REPORT September 23, 2010, 11:56AM EST text size: T T Business Books Track and share business topics across the Web. Increasing Profits by Opening the Books Financial transparency and giving workers at all levels a direct stake in a company's success can help boost efficiency and earnings, says Jody Heymann By Jody Heymann Open Source Software Open Innovation Open Government E-Book Readers All 213 employees at Great Little Box know exactly how profitable the business is. Executives at the Canadian packaging manufacturer discuss the company's finances, production, and sales performance in detail at monthly meetings with staff that ranges from machine operators on the factory floor to senior managers. Such open-book management is tied to the company's profit-sharing strategy: 15 percent of pretax earnings are split equally among everyone at Great Little Box. The company started profit sharing in 1991 because they believed employees would work harder if they felt "they matter and their work matters," says Margaret Meggy, who co-founded the company with her husband and now serves as its human resources chief. She's right. Our research shows that sharing financial information and profits with low-skilled workers helps boost both efficiency and profits. Yet while sharing profits and financial data with top managers is common, it is rare at the bottom...
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...Nuela, Jayson G. BSBA-II CAUSES OF EUTHANASIA The causes of euthanasia are usually advanced illness and a person's desire to end the suffering. The effects vary. Those who assist suicides can face criminal charges. They also have to live with ending a life, especially the life of a loved one. What is the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide? Euthanasia and assisted suicide can be distinguished by considering the act without which the death would not occur. If a third party or a person performs the last act that intentionally leads to patient’s death, then it is called euthanasia. For example, giving a patient a lethal injection or putting a plastic bag over her head to suffocate her would be considered euthanasia. On the other hand, it is an assisted suicide when the patient himself performs an act that leads to death, but has been assisted by a doctor or some other person. Thus it would be assisted suicide if the patient dies after swallows the overdose of drug provided by his doctor for the purpose of causing death. METHODS OF EUTHANASIA When, however, an action or medication is withheld from a patient for the primary purpose of causing or hastening death, this is passive, or indirect, euthanasia. These measures may include the with-holding or withdrawal of ordinary measures such as food, water (hydration) and oxygen. Examples of passive euthanasia are: when food and water is withheld from sick or disabled newborn babies who might...
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...Robin Warrick Girl interrupted The symbolic “parallel universe” of mental illness that Kaysen describes gives us insight into the all-consuming nature of diseases of the mind. Afflictions of this sort are, in the author’s view, as encompassing as a physical disability, a life of crime, or even death. Georgina’s life enters the parallel universe without any warning when a “tidal wave of blackness” sweeps over her. This frightening description of the sudden and unpreventable onset of profound depression sets the stage for the memoir’s exploration of Kaysen’s own struggles. She notes that even from within the parallel universe of illness, one is aware of the reality left behind. Kaysen and the other patients are trapped in more than one kind of parallel universe. Behind the barred windows of the hospital ward, the girls are conscious of the events taking place in the world around them but are unable to participate. In this chapter we learn that Susanna is depressed, when the doctor puts her in the cab he asked her what she did and she replies that she is sad. I feel that Susanna is just overwhelmed and lost control of everything, I think that at one point everyone gets overwhelmed by things in their life. Also Kaysen’s interaction with the doctor sheds light on both the reality of Kaysen’s illness and the chilling consequences of a medical establishment too quick to pronounce someone ill. Kaysen puts up little resistance to the doctor’s hurried diagnosis, even when he draws...
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...Live.” Her twelve-hour workday gives us an in-depth look at how modern medicine is practiced and how crucial it can be to constantly saving lives. It is a drama intertwined and connected by the stories of people in the hospital on that day. This ranges from doctors and their helpers, to patients and their nurses, and even social workers. The book takes place in the oncology ward where it is almost impossible to catch a break. If not on her toes during her shift, she was well aware that not only her career would be on the line, but also the lives of others. The most critical aspect to her shift is her non-stop, on the moment decisions that ultimately make or break her patient. This becomes such a part of every nursing job due to their constant back-ups in work and orders they must also follow from the doctor. Her four patients on this particular day were Mr. Hampton, Sheila, Candace and Dorthy. Theresa must give Mr. Hampton his dangerous dosage of medicine which could either help him...
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...Reading report of the Adventure of Tom Sawyer I think that every young person used to have the dream of travelling around the world and trying to find the treasure, but most of them just hold it as a dream ,not take it into action. In the book The adventure of Tom Sawyer you can see a very exciting and mind-blowing story,which shows a young boy’s adventure life. It is one of the best-written novels of Mark Twain, which brings the fresh recollections of Mark Twain’s memory of his childhood. Tom Sawyer ,who is always causing mischief and troubles, but sets a new and original image which is totally different from the other children. In the novel, Tom Sawyer with Huck Finn leads a typical American-style life with innocence and happiness. In order to get rid of the usual life and the control of contemporary moral values, Tom and Huck make chances for adventures and have fun in realizing their dream with naughtiness and heroic justice to eradicate evil. childhood which is the best time for me, and maybe the best time for most people. That’s the reason why Tom Sawyer has become one of the most impressive images in world literature which enjoys lots of reputation and popularity. It also should be one of the most memorable time for Mark Twain himself, and we can dig out his values for kids and his past childhood. I ‘m a faithful reader of Mark Twain, , I have covered almost all of his short stories, most of his novels. So I think I understand and know his values and judgment to some...
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...187 Emotional and Psychological Effects of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia on Participating Physicians Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr., M.D., FACR* Abstract: This is a review and evaluation of medical and public literature regarding the reported emotional and psychological effects of participation in physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia on the involved physicians. Materials and Methods: Articles in medical journals, legislative investigations and the public press were obtained and reviewed to determine what has been reported regarding the effects on physicians who have been personally involved in PAS and euthanasia. Results and Discussion: The physician is centrally involved in PAS and euthanasia, and the emotional and psychological effects on the participating physician can be substantial. The shift away from the fundamental values of medicine to heal and promote human wholeness can have significant effects on many participating physicians. Doctors describe being profoundly adversely affected, being shocked by the suddenness of the death, being caught up in the patient’s drive for assisted suicide, having a sense of powerlessness, and feeling isolated. There is evidence of pressure on and intimidation of doctors by some patients to assist in suicide. The effect of countertransference in the doctor-patient relationship may influence physician involvement in PAS and euthanasia. Conclusion: Many doctors who have participated in euthanasia and/or ...
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...were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs caring little for pictures or old age we'd opt one year for life, the next for art and always half-heartedly. Sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother's face leaving her usual kitchen to wander some drafty, half imagined museum. One year, feeling clever, I replied why not let the woman decide herself? Linda, the teacher would report, eschews the burdens of responsibility. This fall in a real museum I stand before a real Rembrandt, old woman, or nearly so, myself. The colors within this frame are darker than autumn, darker even than winter--the browns of earth, though earth's most radiant elements burn through the canvas. I know now that woman and painting and season are almost one and all beyond saving by children. A New Poet Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don't see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes in its odd color or the way its leaves grow in splayed rows down the whole length of the page. In fact the very page smells of spilled red wine and the mustiness of the sea on a foggy day - the odor of truth and of lying. And the words are so familiar, so strangely new, words you almost wrote yourself, if only in your dreams there had been a pencil or a pen or even a paintbrush, if only there had been a flower. Emily Dickinson ...
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...Dilemma focused on learning and identifying the issues regarding to the failures of the company and its growth. It explained about when a company’s core business matured, and determined to stick by the practice of catering to the needs of the company’s best customers and focusing investments where profitability is most attractive, which could lead the company’s failure down the road. Also, it explained that company with high-end profitable products could be easily disruptive by new cheaper innovations. As Christensen said, Innovator’s Solution will help and train managers to avoid the causes of failure and to make decisions to lead successful growth of the company, especially with the new growth in business. The following section of the book is to understanding on how to beat our most powerful competitors. At first, the authors explained “The Disruptive Innovation Model,” which is established in Innovator’s Dilemma. The model outlined three important elements. 1) A rate of improvement that customers can fully use or absorb. 2) A rate of improvement that goes beyond what customers can fully use or absorb. 3) A distinction between sustaining and disruptive innovation. The model explained that the new competitors are more likely to beat the leaders in the terms of disruptive innovations. When new competitors developed and commercialize a simpler product that would offer cheaper alternative option to the leading products, they could appeal to new customers, and, eventually...
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...Late Adulthood and End of life PSY/375 Late Adulthood and End of Life There are numerous changes that take place during different stages of development from a child to an adolescent and beyond to adult. Changes in development in late adulthood are not as progressed as in the earlier stages of life (Preisser, 1997). Developmental stages in one’s life are an important part of the journey of life. Discussion on the end of one’s life is not a pleasant one, but it is something that everyone has to go through when it is the end of one’s life span and developmental process. Psychologist Erikson, expressed that the stages of life is a journey and when one reaches late adulthood, he or she comes to terms that his or her life path is at its end (Preisser, 1997). Erikson expressed that when one reaches late adulthood to accept his or her life and look at life in a positive manner. Integrity not despair is this stage of development according to Erikson. When an individual has a sense of integrity he or she is fully accepting his or her self, accomplishments, and can come to terms with mortality (Preisser, 1997). Once an individual can accept responsibility for what he or she achieved in life and undo any negative feelings on what his or her life portrayed this is the essential part of life. There are some individuals who have skepticism or misery over what he or she accomplished or did not accomplish in his or her life, and his is a result of thoughts of despair. When...
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...faster so that we might arrive in Cabuyao early enough for someone to see us drive in. That was important to me. “Why, Elisa?” my mother asked, and I could not tell her why, except that I had left behind in Tayug one friend very dear to me. When the day came for us to go, we could not leave soon enough. I wanted the pain of missing Salud to start quickly. She said goodbye to me that morning by the plaza, asking, “Are you taking everything, Elisa? You’re sure?” When Mother frowned, I hated Salud for betraying me. Several times that past year I had told Salud I felt that something was happening to me. I felt I was growing to be another person entirely. “Something’s wrong, Salud,” I said one day – “I’m going crazy.” She had laughed and looked pointedly at my breasts and said. “They’re growing like mine, Elisa.” She had a way of saying things like that, that angered and also disarmed me; she was 18 and the four years between us yawned like an abyss. During all that time I had watched her turn into a lovely, graceful girl, unfazed by adolescence, leaving me far behind, eaten with envy and yearning. When she laughed at me that morning, I refused to be shaken off. I dogged her all the way along Calle Santa, round the corner to Del Pilar, and catching up with her a few coconut trees from their steps. I said something that made her pull up and look at me gravely. “Help me, Salud,” I said. That past September I had come home...
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...Interview Profile This paper is focused at looking at personality and attitudes traits in an individual. For purposes of the article and protection of the interviewee, he will be addressed, as Mr. X. Mr. X is an individual of sound mind aged 26. I recently interviewed him in an aim of learning more about him as a person. The first thing I wanted to learn about the individual was whether he preferred to watch an action in order to remember it, or was more comfortable with reading about it in books. To defend his answer, Mr. X told me that he was more inclined to remember an action more clearly if he watched the action take place rather than read about it. The individual explained that reading to him was strainers and boring. It involved a lot of concentration interpreting and visualizing (Benjamin, 2011, p.213). On the other hand, observing was more better since it involved that he saw exactly how the action took place. At one point when the individual was explaining this he gave an example, which he concluded that he learned to drive a car by observing his father do it. Mr. X explained that this was among the classical examples that not only he had experienced. To be more categorical, the individual pointed out that reading or theory in general was not part of his strength options. However, the individual explained that he was always doing his best in handling practical stuff involving observation and understanding. Unlike most people, who preferred to study in a quiet environment...
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...World Religions Report Tyler Hester HUM/130 March 3rd, 2013 Tim Parsons World Religions Report The religion I am using for me world religions report is Buddhism. Buddhism is a religious faith that is different from all the other religions. The people who live by this faith have the opportunity to worship other Gods; in this case worshipping different deities depending on what type of situation they were in, and what they needed at that specific moment. One of the biggest historical figures that has helped mold this religion into what it is today is the prophet Muhammad. He wasn’t necessarily the person they worship to; however, he did have an unbelievable contribution toward this faith. I ultimately, and honestly, believe Buddhists’ and Buddhism itself is one of the most complicated religions in today’s society. Buddhism came around about 2,500 years ago. The very first founder of this religion was a man named Buddha Shakyamuni. He was born around 624 BC, in northern India, which it is now referred to as Nepal ("History of Buddhism", 2007). He was given the name Siddhartha by his parents because they believed would have a good future and positive things were going to happen to their son. Early on Siddhartha lived life well; as he was the son of wealthy people. Therefore most of everything came easy to him because of his good fortunes, however to everyone else is seems great but to this meant he was sheltered most of his life. In other words, he was given...
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