Argumentative essay

I recently did a paper on how prescribed opiates over the last 20 years and how it's impacted the current heroin epidemic. It was actually interesting to read about and there are many peer to peer reviewed scholarly articles on the subject.

Effects and implicates? You lost me there.

Did you mean, "affects" and "has something to do with the health care system"?

I'm thinking about the recent revelations about a Harvard study sponsored by the sugar industry many years ago that pulled attention away from sugar as a factor in arterial disease and turned the standard of care to looking at fats. The authors are long since dead, and the recognition that refined sugars are a very serious factor in cardiovascular disease is well-known....now. And of course, there are many healthy fats, we know...now. It's been argued that this paper all by itself set back nutrition management in the US by a generation.

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Sorry for the confusion. I meant. How it effects the government or how it impacts.

Has EMR/EHR lived up to the promise of improving patient care, increasing patient safety, increasing productivity, and providing quality research data? Are patients happy with the move to EMR/EHR. Has the EMR/EHR put distance in the clinician/patient relationship, since the clinician is staring at a computer screen instead of looking at the patient?

Has HIPAA increased patient privacy? It is extremely rare for anyone to be fined for HIPAA violations. In my state prior to HIPAA patients had to consent to their private medical data being used for research. They can now request that their data not be shared for research, but no one will agree to that request. If a patient's data is revealed, nothing is done to make the patient whole. A patient cannot sue for a HIPAA violation. Are patients less likely to be honest with their physician, since they know their data isn't private? Does all the talk about HIPAA make patients more confident in the privacy of the data? If patients withhold information because of privacy concerns, how does this affect the quality of research data?

How has the move to having hospitalist and intensivists affected patient care. They now have a physician/NP assigned to them. They don't get to chose the physician/NP they trust to handle their care. They no longer have their PCP handling their care in the hospital. Did they receive better care when the physician who had treated them for 20 years managed their care in the hospital. Has care improved, since the person managing their care is specialized in managing patients in the acute care setting? Has care improved, since the PCP is no longer sleep deprived because they no longer get calls all night from the hospital? How does this affect continuity of care? Does the fact the patient gets someone assigned rather than choosing their provider increase the likelihood of a lawsuit?

Are anti-anxiety drugs going to be the next epidemic?

OK then, you should have your homework all laid out for you, and you have some ideas to sell to your classmates. Have a good time.