Law, Narrative, and Health Care

Law, Narrative, and Health Care

Posted by Christine Corcos

Kenneth D. Chestek, Indiana University School of Law (Indianapolis) has publishedCompeting Stories: A Case Study of the Role of Narrative Reasoning in Judicial Decisions. Here is the abstract.

By: Maggie Beetz

The Pension Protection Act, signed into law on August 17, 2006, is designed to address the nation-wide problem of under-funded pension plans. The law penalizes noncompliant companies and encourages employee contributions, but many of the changes directly impact taxpayers of all ages, regardless of retirement status.

By: Monique Hawkins

You should already know that nutrition is very important to your quality of life. If you want to have a healthy life and lifestyle, you will need to have a healthy diet with proper nutrition. You might hear all the time that your nutrition greatly affects the way you live and your quality of life but have you ever really thought about why? Do you really understand why it is so important?

By: Dan Farrell

One of the most important aspects of living a healthy and prosperous life is understanding "risk." By this I mean knowing how to understand and analyze situations in life that affect health. Being able to accurately weigh benefits and risks when making health decisions is very important! Too often decisions are based on incomplete or inaccurate information and this is a huge mistake with significant consequences!

Diagnosis

For a variety of reasons, clinicians often struggle to arriveat a confident diagnosis of IBS. The differential diagnosis in patients who  have symptoms that are suggestive of IBS is broad and there is no reliable biologic marker for this condition. IBS is viewed more often as a "diagnosis by exclusion" than as a primary diagnose. The manning criteria, Rome I and Rome II criteria, developed by multinational working groups, provide a uniform framework for the selection of patients in diagnostic and therapeutic trials of IBS.

Mucosal Inflamation & Emotional Stress

Gastrointestinal infection with its consequent mucosal inflammation seems to play a role in the etiology of IBS in a subset of patients, although there is some doubt that this condition is of real importance. Recent observations suggest that substantially less than 25% of patients develop "Post-infectious" IBS.

Pathophysiology

IBS is actually a heterogeneous combination of different factors as well as other mechanisms that remain to be elucidated. 

IBS probably represents the common clinical expression of multiple potential pathophysiologic factors. Potential factors that contribute to IBS include a genetic predisposition to the condition, disturbed central nervous system pain processing and visceral hypersensitivity, mucosal inflammation, abnormal colonic motility and emotional stress.

Using the Law of Attraction?

This is an excellent (and very important) question. After all, it doesn’t do you much good to know what the law of attraction is if you do not know how to use it to achieve success in your own life. Once you have mastered the basics of the law of attraction you will be able to apply it to any area in your life.

1) The first step in finding success through the law of attraction is to accept responsibility for the things that have occurred in your life, both good and bad. This is often the most difficult part of achieving success through manifestation because we are taught from childhood to believe that our environment contributes in a large part to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. It’s very hard to take the responsibility and acknowledge the fact that your environment was not the major contributing factor in each of these events; in many cases you will have no one to blame but yourself.

History of the Law of Attraction

Before we go too deep into the modern applications of the law of attraction it is important that you understand that this is not simply New Age nonsense (most descriptions of the law of attraction refer to it as a product of a New Age Mentality). The principles of the law of attraction date back far beyond the new found popularity of the New Age.

The immortal Buddha was actually one of the first to introduce man to the law of attraction. He said, “What you have become is what you have thought.” This was a principle that the people of the east were acquainted with for centuries before it began to sweep into the western hemisphere.

What is the Law of Attraction?

The belief held by many theorists is that the universe is governed by a set of universal laws; these laws cannot be changed, cannot be broken and apply to every individual, regardless of age or nationality. These laws are the riverbanks which guide the flow of their lives on its journey to its ultimate end.

The Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction: Getting Everything You Want Out of Life Through the Power of Your Own Mind. And Let Your Thoughts Determine Your Destiny

Imagine for a moment that you have in your possession a source of complete and total power. You alone can command the warmth of the sun, the fall of the rain, the turn of the tides and the direction of the winds. What would you do with this kind of power? Would you abuse it causing the world to fall into utter chaos? Would you be benevolent and merciful, using your power to help the people of your planet achieve their ultimate potential?