Do not resuscitate decision-making: Ohio's do not resuscitate law should be amended to include a mature minor's right to initiate a DNR order.
I. INTRODUCTION II. DO NOT RESUSCITATE: AN OVERVIEW A. A Do Not Resuscitate Order: What is it and Why is it Issued? B. Ohio's Current Do Not Resuscitate Law III. A LOOK AT THE MINOR AND HEALTHCARE: PAST AND PRESENT A. A Historical Glance at the Minor's Healthcare Rights...

Multihospital system membership and patient treatments, expenditures, and outcomes.
In recent years the proportion of hospitals affiliated with other hospitals has grown. In 1985, for example, 38 percent of nonpublic general medical-surgical hospitals responding to the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey identified themselves as being members of health care systems; by 1998, this percentage had grown to...

May doctors refuse infertility treatments to gay patients?
One of the most sacrosanct principles of medical practice in the United States is that physicians have a right to choose their own patients as long as the patient is not in a medical emergency. During the 1980s, a minority of health care professionals invoked this prerogative in refusing...

University Park Dermatology, David S. Sax, M.D.: skin-care solutions for every dermatological issue.
As the medical industry grows perpetually less invasive and more personalized, David Sax, M.D. and University Park Dermatology offer the full spectrum of skin solutions to the people of Sarasota and Manatee. Skin health garners due attention in sunny Florida, but sun worship aside, today's dermatological issues are increasingly...

Administering ECT: Part I.
Electroconvulsive therapy has been in existence since 1938, making it the biologic intervention with the greatest longevity in psychiatry. In part, this is because the procedure is one of the most potent treatments around. Inpatient psychiatrists treat the most severe mental disorders, and therefore almost invariably treat...

Special medical procedures, sterilisation of minors and the role of the family court.
Generally parents have the power to consent to medical treatment of their child where the child is incapable of giving consent. (1) This 'parental power to consent to medical treatment on behalf of a child diminishes gradually as the child's capacities and maturity grow and ... this rate of...

Biomedicine and technocratic power.
Current developments in biomedicine promise a genetically engineered and better future.(1) A "genetic future" would mean incorporating more high technology medicine into the habits of everyday life. The order of the body, that is, the sense of how we should look, act, and perform, would become the domain of...

Acute hepatitis C virus infections attributed to unsafe injection practices at an endoscopy clinic - Nevada, 2007.
On January 2, 2008, the Nevada State Health Division (NSHD) contacted CDC concerning surveillance reports received by the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) regarding two persons recently diagnosed with acute hepatitis C. A third person with acute hepatitis C was reported the following day. This raised concerns about an...

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Issue Patient Safety Advisory on Medi-spas.
How to get the most from your Medi-spa experience: NEW YORK, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Medi-spas, locations that can offer everything from facials and hair removal to pharmaceutical injections and other medical procedures, are proliferating across the country. Medi-spas may be located in a physician's office, or...

Cristina Decena challenges top celebrity surgeons.
Byline: JOJO P. PANALIGAN After putting behind her issues with ex-boyfriend actor Philip Salvador last year, Cristina Decena now challenges local plastic surgeons that have worked on and made endorsers of top celebrities. "I know of better trained doctors that use more high tech facilities...