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  • THS the rise of health and wellness influencers on social media.

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    Health and wellness influencers are individuals who use digital platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, blogs, etc) to share content related to physical and mental well-being, diet, fitness, beauty, personal growth, and overall lifestyle choices.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-24

  • Absent a court order, This house believes that mental health patients should only be institutionalized if they consent

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    Institutionalization refers to a person being placed in a long-term care facility, such as a hospital, psychiatric institution, or nursing home, typically due to chronic illness, mental health issues, or disabilities. This often involves the patient living in the institution and receiving ongoing care or treatment. Currently, doctors and healthcare professionals need to procure a court order for long term involuntary institutionalisation of a patient."

    Muntazar Asian Parliamentary Debate · Round 5 · 2024-09-07

  • This house condemns the de-emphasis on end-of-life care made by the medical community

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    End-of-life care (EOL) is a branch of medicine concerned with the peaceful facilitation of the dying process, including but not limited to providing supportive meds, pain relief, and grief counseling. In status quo, EOL care is often deprioritized, as there is a social preference to pursue life-extending care, such as chest compressions even with low chances of survival, or advanced care directives that aim to continue all treatments and interventions for brain-dead patients, etc.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-09-07

  • This House regrets the merging of pharmaceutical companies into extremely large firms

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    In the 90s, many of the biggest pharmaceutical companies were born from mergers and acquisitions (e.g. Astrazeneca, Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Daiichi Sankyo, J & J). For example Astra AB merged with Zeneca Group, Novo with Nordisk, Daiichi with Sankyo, Pfizer with Warner-Lambert and Pharmacia.

    Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championships 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-09-07

  • Assuming feasibility, This house would sue the National General Hospital

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    You are a medical student intern in the National General Hospital (the biggest, national hospital serving the marginalized). Your responsibilities include monitoring the vital signs of patients, suggesting treatment plans, etc. NGH is also known to be underfunded with a sheer lack in manpower. One day, because of the number of patients during your shift, you fail to monitor the vitals of a critical patient for several hours. The doctor who rounded on the patient found that they have actually died already. News spread fast, and you become the center of controversy among your batch, even to the point of people anonymously posting about you in forums that reach the medical community in the country. The events have brought you significant mental and emotional distress to the point of you experiencing a psychiatric emergency.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-09-07

  • This house would join the network

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    You are a female medical practitioner in a highly conservative area who identifies as a progressive feminist. One day, you are invited by one of your colleagues to start an underground network of women that provide reproductive health services such as abortions and broad contraceptives. For the purposes of this debate, this is not a sting operation.

    Osaka IV 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-07

  • This house would aggrssively integrate Traditional Medicine into National Health Care systems

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    Traditional medicine is recognized and regulated in South Africa through the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (2007) and the Traditional Health Practitioners Council of South Africa. The Department of Health's Traditional Medicine Strategy (2013) aims to integrate traditional medicine into the national healthcare system, with plans to include it in the National Health Insurance (NHI) Scheme by 2025. Some hospitals, like Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, have traditional medicine units. Limited medical schemes, such as Discovery Health, cover traditional medicine services.

    South African National Schools Debate Championships 2024 - Seniors · Plate Quater-Final · 2024-09-01

  • This House prefers the New South Wales model of medical internship allocation to the Victoria model.

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    Graduating medical students in Australia are not eligible to practice medicine unsupervised, and must complete a two year paid internship as a junior doctor in a public hospital to obtain general registration with the Medical Board of Australia. In New South Wales, internship positions are allocated without regard to indicia of merit (CV, grades etc). Candidates have the opportunity to express their preference of desired hospital, but these may not be honoured if too many applicants register their preference for a particular hospital. Domestic graduates of local universities are guaranteed a job, but must accept the single offer they are made. In Victoria, internships are allocated primarily by merit. Candidates receiving internships at the most sought after hospitals (generally large tertiary referral hospitals in metropolitan Melbourne) are decided by a combination of medical school grades, curriculum vitae, references from senior doctors and an interview.

    ANU Equinox 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-08-30