B: Ms. Patton is an 18-year-old Caucasian G1PO at 38 2/7 weeks of gestation. Admitted on 1/19/2018 at 0300, for labor assessment, -she wishes for a natural birth. Patient was assessed at 0320, all vital signs were normal. She was put on continuous monitoring of the fetus, and Dr. DeFrame was notified at 0340. While waiting for Physician’s arrival, I educated patient on GBS and its effects on newborns.…
Material and Method Subjects and samples- This was a case-control study conducted in King George’s Medical University, a tertiary-care teaching institute, and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, a tertiary-care government non-teaching institute, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. A total of 1118 subjects were enrolled including 559 cases and 559 controls. Cases were defined as mothers (age 18-40 years) of live preterm neonates (birth at less than 37 weeks of gestation).…
Ms. Teresa Poindexter is a patient of The Woman's Clinic. I treated her for the duration of her most recent pregnancy, where she developed several complications due to fibroids blocking one of her kidneys. This however could not be treated due to her pregnancy. It is my medical opinion that due to these complications that the patient undergo a full hysterectomy in order to treat her condition as well as prevent any future complications.…
Friday June 2012, at Hinton Crime Lab Institute of Boston, Massachusetts Annie Dookhan was convicted for tampering with evidence and lying under oath about her chemistry degree. Dookhan’s co-workers described her as “superwoman” because of how fast she tested evidence, specifically drugs. It was stated that other lab technicians usually tested about 150 drug samples a month, meanwhile Dookhan was testing up to 500. Dookhans supervisor commented that he never saw Dookhan in front of a microscope, all of this raising high suspicion. Dookhan worked at Hinton Crime Lab for nine years where she tested more than 60,000 drug samples, putting over 11,000 people in jail, who may not even belong there.…
Review of her medical records indicates that she has had multiple hospitalizations in the last year for CHF/COPD exacerbation her last hospitalization was 8/28/16 at SLMC for COB and hypoxia. On 8/28/16 she had a left and right cardiac cath because of dyspnea and congestive heart failure. Her other medical history includes NIDDM, Afib, CVA with right sides hemiparesis, MI, GAD, dementia, bipolar, chronic ischemic heart disease, dysphagia, cognitive communication deficit, hyperlipidemia and GERD. At todays visit she is found in her room lying in bed at Tiffany hall SNF.…
Jessica is a 21yo, G1 P0, who was seen for an ultrasound evaluation and consultation for FTS. The patient has a history of opiate use disorder involving heroin addiction. She has used this off/on with the father of the baby and has actually used it recently. She states that she recently entered your Subutex program and is now on 8 mg Subutex b.i.d. and believes that she is doing better.…
He reported that he was arrested again in January of 2014. He stated that he had an argument with his ex-girlfriend Laura and she called 911. Mr. DaSilva stated that the case was dismissed and she declined to prosecute. Mr. DaSilva reported that Laura took out an Order of Protection against him. In February of 2014, he indicated that he was arrested several times for violating the Order of Protection against him.…
Ms. Freedle is a 11 year old female who presented to the ED with suicidal ideation without a plan and homicidal ideation without a plan. Ms. Freedle reportedly has had multiple suicidal attempts in the past 3 months. She has had 2 attempts by drowning herself and one by place a knife to her chest. Today she went to school with a knife from home. Ms. Freedle states she was going to give it to her boyfriend.…
Katie, a 24 year old pregnant female, 33 weeks gestation is admitted to the hospital in sickle cell crisis. Also, she has preeclampsia and is in a tremendous amount of pain. Katie has a medical history of taking opioids and morphine during her pregnancy for pain due to her sickle cell disease. The doctors take Katie right back to the delivery room and prep her for a cesarean section. The baby is born and taken to the Intensive Care Nursery for monitoring due to prematurity and low birth weight.…
Tara is a 28yo, G4 P2012, who was seen for an ultrasound evaluation and to set-up PNC. She has had limited PNC and has not had an ultrasound and is uncertain of her LMP. She believes that it was in June and she was having regular cycles but again is not certain. She overall denies any problems with the pregnancy to date. She does have a longstanding history of opiate abuse and has been using 2-4 mg of Suboxone off the street recently.…
Abramski v the United States is a case that questioned the legality of a lawful gun-purchaser buying a gun for another lawful gun-owner who resides in a different state and inaccurately listing that they are the actual buyer. Due to the Supremacy clause (86), it was up to the Supreme Court to make the final decision by looking further into the Gun Control Act of 1968, which was established to try and stop felons from obtaining a gun, and determining exactly what it prohibits. In 2009, Bruce Abramski bought a gun for his uncle, Angel Alvarez, because after his years of service as a police officer, he was eligible for a discount at a local Virginia gun store. Before he purchased the weapon, three federally-licensed gun dealers told Abramski to…
The case of Brian Dailey and Ruth Garratt is a good example to demonstrate the concepts that we have learned in this week’s reading and assignments regarding torts. It involves the liability of a minor for an intentional tort. According to the article published by Lawnix, a five-year-old boy, Brian Dailey, was accused of a battery when he pulled a chair out from under Ruth Garratt just as she was going to sit down and caused her to fall and broke her hip. Ruth brought a tort claim against Dailey for an intentional tort of a battery. The trial court found in favor of the defendant asserting that there was no intent to injure the Garratt.…
An Immigrant Women’s Experience in a County Hospital Shikha Ahuja Drexel University S.D. is a 38 year old immigrant female who was admitted to a community memorial hospital when she was nine months pregnant. S.D. went to the hospital clinic for a prenatal checkup on October 7, 2014. The nurse took her vital signs and all her vitals were normal except for the blood pressure. She had an abnormally high blood pressure reading. The physician admitted her as a precautionary measure.…
Dynashears manufacturers a complete line of household scissors and industrial shears, and distributes their goods through jobbers to specialty, hardware and department stores. A cyclical business, Dynashears deals with a period of high sales during the months of July to December. By nature, cyclical businesses like Dynashears engage in short-term borring from banks to finance the additional working capital needed to support high sales periods. Dynashears is usually able to pay back its short-term loans by the end of the year. However, due to the economic recession, Dynashears sales began to not reach the projected level in July 1990.…
Dastmalchi LLC developed several keys to success when the firm launched. Their “fast follower” strategy led them to penetrate many different markets and target different audiences, while maintaining low operational costs. The company had the ability to predict which new products would be successful in the market and quickly release their own, more affordable, version to the public. This strategy was carried out by the company finding manufactures of the product and repackaging and rebranding the product to make it their own. Rather than using their own resources to innovate and market their own unique products, Dastmalchi found a way to piggyback off the success of others.…