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    Labor and Pain

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    719 Reports of Investigation Risk factors of inadequate pain relief during epidural analgesia for labour and delivery Ghislaine Le Coq CRNA‚* B6atrice Ducot MD‚’f Dan Benhamou MD* Purpose: To determine the causes of failure of epidural analgesia during labour and delivery. Methods: During six months‚ pregnant patients receiving epidural analgesia and delivering vaginally were studied prospectively‚ Bupivacaine 0. 125% was used for the initial bolus dose and subsequent continuous infusion

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    Emmie Thompson Mr. Lindley AP European 11 January 2013 Galileo‚ Descartes‚ and Newton The scientific revolution gave way to a radical change in the ideology of mankind. Prior to the scientific revolution‚ ideas were dominated by the church. Religion dominated science and was a superior source of knowledge. When science contradicted the church‚ it was wrong. This clash was seen with the claim of the earth not being the center of the universe‚ but the sun. The church declared this as heresy

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    I Robot and Descartes

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    Philosophy and Literature 253 Midterm Exam October 7 2012 “Oh‚ Jupiter‚ a robot Descartes!” Asimov’s short story “Reasons” in I‚ Robot is the fictional account of a robots creation of his own path of reasoning. Much like Descartes‚ the Robot‚ Cutie‚ is curious about the truth of his existence and plans to find the answers out for himself. Cutie is a self-aware‚ reasoning robot on a station in space in the year 2015‚ and all he knows are the things in his immediate surrounding‚ which isn’t much

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    Descartes is the pioneer of modern philosophy. His "I think‚ therefore I am" is the first principle and proposition of his philosophical system. His thoughts occupied an extremely important position in the whole history of philosophy. At first‚ Descartes wrote in Meditation‚ “The first such belief was that I had a face‚ hands‚ arms and the whole structure of bodily parts that corpses also have—I call it the body‚” which gives his first understanding to “I”‚ then he continues says‚ “The next belief

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    No Pain No Gain

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    This is a well-known proverb already about related life-style. A period of pain in exchange of a period of enjoyment in future‚ supported by what is gained‚ life seems like a constant repitition of exchanging‚ or investing‚ to put it in other ways. No wonder there has been prevailing idea that people would labour hard in their youth and leave themselves smelling the flowers when they’ve accumulted enough wealth or get old.Nevertheless‚ success depend a little bit too much on money and origins. There´s

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    Pain & Gain

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    Pain and Gain Love is something we all feel. Towards family‚ lovers‚ or friends‚ it is always there‚ no matter how hard you try to push it away. Siddhartha felt much love on his way towards enlightenment. He loved Govinda‚ so he set him off to be on his own with the Buddha. He loved Kamala‚ even though it wasn’t LOVE love‚ he respected her so I believe he had a sort of friendly love of Kamala. He also loved his son‚ and the pain he went through in letting his son go and live his life got him

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    Pain In Medea

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    to the pain he caused her. Medea is one that was like no other in Corinth she feels no remorse. Media is not a Greek and in order to be with Jason‚ the one she loves‚ she had to give up her title of a princess. Jason then turns on her to marry the princess of Corinth in order to give their two kids a name and a place in Corinth‚ instead of being an outsider. This resulted in Medea showing her fierce uncontrollable anger. Unlike other women in Corinth‚ Medea would not just cry out her pain‚ but externalize

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    Ingineous Pain

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    Introduction Ingenious Pain tells the life story of James Dyer‚ a surgeon in eighteenth-century England who is gifted--and cursed--with the inability to feel physical or emotional pain. Beginning with his post-mortem‚ the novel traces the thirty-three years of his life‚ from his illegitimate conception on a frozen river‚ through the rise of his career from itinerant quack’s assistant to ship’s surgeon‚ and then to the court of Empress Catherine of Russia where he meets Mary‚ a mysterious woman who

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    Definition of Pain

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    such emotions‚ pain is a combatant of positive and negative change. To look at happiness‚ you see acts of kindness and good‚ whereas anger more often then not causes nothing but trouble. However‚ pain does two things; pain is one of the most prevalent causes of human change‚ and is a provoker of human deterioration. With everything people say about pain‚ generalizing it to some common and minimalist thing‚ the first thing to be explained is what pain is not. Pain is not measurable. Pain is not something

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    Pain is one of the most serious health concerns worldwide (1-4). Several studies have demonstrated an increasing pain prevalence which in turn leads to a substantially accumulative global health and economic burden (1‚ 2‚ 5-8). In addition to that‚ a recent study determined that pain is one of the leading reasons of global years lived with disability (1). It is reasonable‚ therefore‚ to adopt the notion that as life expectancy increases‚ the impact of pain- related disability is probably predicted

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