Medical Health

Jude Lewis submitted this entry:

Stopping smoking is now considerably more complicated than it was when I was a little kid. While everyone agrees addiction to nicotine is the primary reason cigarettes are so hard to quit, not everyone agrees that the prescription of antidepressants is a safe solution. Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and dopamine reuptake inhibitors are history; now there is a medication available which specifically targets nicotine receptors in the brain. The argument is that a drug which acts as a nicotinic agonist specifically, instead of as familiar antidepressant generally, will be safer for the general population and have fewer side effects. This does seem scientifically sound, but introduces yet another layer of pharmaceutical complexity in combatting smoking.

Very best regards,

Jude Lewis
General Consultant
Consultants General
http://www.consultantsgeneral.com

Back during the 1980s, when I was busy fulfilling the requirements of a Ph.D. degree, I performed quite a bit of dangerous field work. In my line of study, field workers and their associates suffered severe injuries, including decapitation, and died in small-plane crashes. Some of them drowned.

The university gave me a temporary position as a graduate research assistant, and the rest of my funding was drawn from research grants and sholarships. But years later I discovered that neither my graduate research assistantship nor my grants provided disability insurance and/or health insurance (never mind life insurance).

Therefore, I am advising all students to refrain from risking their lives and limbs during their course of studies, and I am saying that you must insist that the university provide you with disability and/or health benefits or allow you to use part of your grant money to buy the necessary insurance.

Universities think of themselves as absolutely benevolent, but when all is said and done, you can not trust them, and you must force them to keep up their end of the deal.

The medical and pharmaceutical industries are among the most stable in the world; they are a growth industry (one of the sectors that aggressive stock analysts constantly monitor), and in the U.S. they are one of the very largest employers. That’s why the St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants, www.medassistant.org, is happy to point out that that the U.S. government ranks medical assisting among the fastest growing career opportunities today and in the near future.

So if you are looking for medical assistant training, that is, if you have decided to become a medical assistant, then you will want to know about the nationally accredited & certified online program offered by the St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants, where your time is flexible. They offer a program in which you can become a medical assistant in just six to eight weeks.

Why not enroll in a medical assistant school that gears itself to students who wish to learn from home. Distance learning and anytime e-Learning are the wave of the future.

Cosmetics is big business, as are cosmetic and plastic surgery procedures. And as the Baby Boomers retire (and that huge wave of retirement has begun) we will see a continued upswing in cosmetic, plastic surgery, and non-surgical procedures: for example, liposuction, breast surgery, facial surgery, tummy tucks, gel eye masks, and vein treatments. Why? Because the Baby Boomers are the generation that plans on staying active and young for as long as possible, and they are a generation that knows that the possibilities are mind boggling.

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