Eyeglass prescription Essays

  • Optometrist Research Paper

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    also educated patients about the types of lenses, materials, and coatings for their glasses. I then transitioned to working at the in-house lab to manufacture the eyewear for our patients. This included: selecting the correct base curve for the prescription, calculating decentrations, surfacing, coating, and edging the lenses for the

  • Myopia Argumentative Essay

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    frequently develop a condition known as presbyopia. This condition decreases the person's ability to focus sharply on those object which are nearby and is the result of the lens of the eye hardening. In addition, astigmatism requires a person wear prescription eyeglasses and/or contact lenses. Astigmatism arises when the curvature of the eye is irregular. The eye is normally shaped liked a soccer ball or basketball. With astigmatism, it takes on a more oval shape and resembles a football. Due to the

  • Exercise Prescription

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    Date of Birth: 09/01/77 Sex: Female Height: 61” Weight: 113 lbs Resting Heart Rate: 58 bpm ·     Health problems or injuries: Previous lower back injuries ·     Medications that may influence heart rate: None ·     Risk of cardiovascular or orthopedic injury: None ·     Individual preferences for exercise: Jogging, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, resistance ball, free weights, yoga ·     Individual dislikes for exercise: Stationary bike, treadmill, some weight machines

  • Laudan's Theory of Scientific Aims

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    Laudan's Theory of Scientific Aims I criticize Laudan's constraints on cognitive aims as presented in Science and Values. These constraints are axiological consistency and non-utopianism. I argue that (i) Laudan's prescription for non utopian aims is too restrictive because it excludes ideals and characterizes as irrational or non-rational numerous human contingencies. (ii) We aim to ideals because there is no cogent way to specify in advance what degree of deviation from an ideal is acceptable

  • Prescription Discrimination

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    Prescription Discrimination Imagine this, you an eighteen year girl old who has decided to become sexually active with your long term boyfriend. This raises a lot of issues for you. While you are interested in beginning oral contraception you are not comfortable talking to your parents about sex. Even if you could talk to them, the chances they would pay for your birth control are slim to none. You do work but $30 a month for the pill on top of the cost of condoms takes up a large portion of

  • assisted suicide

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    Patients must pass certain requirements in order to request a prescription for lethal medication. The patient must be 18 years or older, a resident of Oregon, able to make health care decisions, and diagnosed with a terminal illness that would lead to death within six months. After meeting these requirements patients are able to request a prescription for lethal medication from a licensed Oregon physician. To receive a prescription for lethal medication, the following steps must be completed: •     The

  • Bonnie And Clyde "Famous Cases"

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    revealed it had been occupied by a man and a woman, indicated by abandoned articles therein. In this car was found a prescription bottle, which led Special Agents to a drug store in Nacogdoches, Texas, where investigation disclosed the woman for whom the prescription had been filled was Clyde Barrow's aunt. Further investigation revealed that the woman who obtained the prescription had been visited recently by Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Clyde's brother, L. C. Barrow. It also was learned that

  • The Ethics of the Mental Pursuit of Perfection

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    alarming figures call us to question the causes behind this influx of diagnosed mental disorders as well as the consequential drug prescription as a solution. When asked to discuss the ethics of the mental pursuit of perfection, there are several different aspects to consider. The main ethical issues raised lie in the prescription of drugs to children and the over prescription of drugs. In addition, I will discuss who and what are responsible for our culture’s desire to “quick fix” every definable problem

  • Opiates And The Law

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    just old compounds waiting for society to discover them. Almost overnight one such venerable substance (or class of substances) has been catapulted into the national spotlight: prescription painkillers, namely those derived from the opium poppy. This class of analgesic encompasses everything from the codeine in prescription cough syrup to the morphine used in the management of sever pain. These compounds are commonly referred to as opiates and are produced naturally by the poppy. The sub-class of

  • Case Study: Starbucks Pay Package

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    Starbucks total pay package, called ‘Your Special Blend’, which we will compare against the benefits of Tim Horton’s benefits program is called ‘Team Tim Hortons’. “Tim Horton’s employees require six months of continued employment to be eligible to be on Team Tim Horton’s and receive benefits, which is also contingent on hours worked (Tim Horton’s, 2015) Tim Hortons considers employee’s benefits a voluntary contribution by the company to its employees and it is subject and conditional to ongoing

  • ADHD Prescription Abuse at Northeastern

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    ADHD Prescription Abuse at Northeastern Northeastern middler Gary Brown* reclines his small frame on a couch in his Mission Hill apartment. He looks like a patient on a psychiatrist's couch as he dictates his history of abuse with Ritalin and Adderall. “I started going to concerts with a friend who had a prescription and whose nickname was Bradderall,” Brown said. Ritalin and Adderall are prescription drugs commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Brown

  • Oxycontin

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    top priority the illegal use of the prescription painkiller OxyContin in the wake of what the agency says is a dramatic and dangerous increase in the drug's availability. Simply crushing the tablet can negate the controlled-release effect of the drug, enabling abusers to swallow or snort the drug for a powerful morphinelike high. The tablet can also be crushed, mixed with water and injected. In this paper I discuss the abuse of OxyContin and other prescription painkillers. The synthetic Opioid

  • Expanding Medicare to Include Prescription Drug Coverage

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    Expanding Medicare to Include Prescription Drug Coverage Introduction Throughout the past year of presidential campaigning, one of the top issues for both candidates has been that of whether or not there should be a prescription-drug benefit added to Medicare. Both George W. Bush and Al Gore have proposed a plan to expand Medicare to include full prescription-drug coverage for senior citizens receiving Medicare, at the expense of taxpayers. It is obvious why this issue has been such a priority

  • Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens

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    specifically teenagers. But when does harmlessly taking a prescription drug to alleviate pain take the turn into the downward spiral of abuse? The answer to that question would be when the user begins taking the drug for the “high” or good feelings brought along with it—certainly not what it was prescribed for (1). The amount of teens that abuse prescription medications has been rapidly increasing in recent

  • Margaret Link: A Case Study

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    uncommon that due to human-error, technological error, and even patient error for these errors to lead to death.  In 2012, the case regarding a patient named Margaret Link was negatively impacted from human-error. Margaret Link was given the wrong prescription for six months. These events

  • Effects Of Drug Advertising On Lyrica

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    Drug advertising for prescription medications comes in many forms including ads in magazines or newspaper, TV commercials, radio broadcasts, brochures, etc. It was in the mid 80s when drug companies started to direct information on prescription drugs to consumers instead of only focusing information on the physicians or pharmacists (FDA, 2012). The change seen in prescription drug promotion towards the public is known as direct-to-consumer advertising. This type of advertising is completely directed

  • A Rise in ADHD Diagnosis Analysis

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    (Koerth-Baker n.p.). Professor Joel Nigg, a professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University, made this statement in reference to the growing amount of people diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medicine for it. The amount of people with prescriptions has increased immensely over the past several years, and will continue to grow over the next several years. In this statement, Nigg is saying that society simply names something seen as a problem, rather than trying to find a solution or a reason

  • Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse

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    Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse Years ago, the common image of an adolescent drug abuser was a teen trying to escape from reality on illegal substances like cocaine, heroin, or marijuana. Today, there is a great discrepancy between that perception and the reality of who is likely to abuse drugs. A teenage drug abuser might not have to look any further than his or her parent’s medicine chest to ‘score.’ Prescription drug abuse by teens is on the rise. Also, teens are looking to prescription drugs

  • E-Prescribing and It's Function in Healthcare

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    prescribers to electronically send a prescription to the patients’ pharmacy of choice, in the short amount of time it has been available, it has significantly reduced health care costs, not only for the patient, but for the medical facilities as well. In 2003, e-prescribing was included in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) which jumpstarted the role of e-prescribing in healthcare. It has proven to significantly reduce the yearly number medication errors and prescription fraud, and its widespread publicity

  • Substance Abuse Reflection Paper

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    During this course I have learned a significant amount regarding substance abuse. All my years within the medical field, I never looked at substance abuse patients as unique, delicate, and should be treated with care. I have increased my level of understanding and now have the tools to have substance abuse conversations with my patients, family members, or friends. What gave me a different outlook on substance abuse treatment is understanding that some patients have a co-occurring diagnosis that