Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
You may think you have a good idea about addiction already, but these 10 surprising facts about addiction may challenge the beliefs you have about it. Please continue reading to learn more.1. Drug and/or alcohol addiction is surprisingly common. Approximately 1 out of every 8 Americans is living...
Careers within the health care industry are expected to expand into a record number of job opportunities. Health care careers dominate eight of the top ten highest paying occupations and offer a variety of employment possibilities with ample salaries. During May 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
Dr. Teddy Wu, a physician at the Christchurch Hospital, published a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, treated a woman who suffered a stroke caused by a hickey. Wu reported that one year ago, he treated a 44 year old Maori female at the emergency room of the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland...
Many people assume that the only way to make a good salary without being worked into the ground in health care is to be a doctor. But there are many high paying jobs in the health care field that don't require you to become a doctor. Below we've listed 13 of the highest paying health care jobs...
History is not just a recent discovery, people from as far back as two thousand years ago already knew of the existence of electricity. During the time of the ancient Greeks, scientists from the period found out that rubbing fur on amber will cause an attraction between the two materials. In the...
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a sixty nine year old physician from West Philadelphia, has been charged with 8 counts of murder for killing 7 babies and one patient after performing late term abortions. Gosnell reportedly earned millions of dollars for performing, as local CBS media reports maintain, "as...
Medical negligence, also called medical malpractice, is a case in which a professional physician strays from the established rules and guidelines for their practice and procedures, and performs illegal and/or immoral operations on a patient, resulting in injury or death.
Internal medicine is a specialization in the medical field which deals with non-surgical conditions in adults. More specifically, it deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide variety of adult conditions. Internist is the term used to refer to doctors who specialize in internal...
A duty of confidentiality is an obligation imposed on someone by a relationship which may either be law recognized, standards of a certain profession or provisions of a binding contract. This is a special status that prevents disclosure of private information. These types of relationships include...
