Oscar Wilde once said‚ “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist‚ not of the sitter.” This was true in Wilde’s life except he was not painting portraits‚ but rather creating wonderful literary works of art that people still enjoy today. All of his works portrayed Wilde’s talent and creativity. Oscar Wilde was born on October 16‚ 1854‚ to two successful parents‚ Dr. William Wilde and Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde. Wilde’s father was a successful eye and ear doctor. He
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and head off the ground and kept calling my name she said that I was squinting and trying to say yes. My step dad called the ambulance and they came. When I got to the hospital they ran tests on me to see what was going on. They told my mom it was meningitis. That week was the most horrible week of my life. I was having headaches‚ throwing up constantly‚ drowsiness‚ pain in my body etc.‚ but it was thankfully the virus one and
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The Risk of The Influenza Vaccine The flu shot produces the best way to reduce everyone ’s chances of getting the influenza virus‚ but previous research has shown that it does in fact cause all sorts of different side effects. The flu shot does not always prevent the virus. Sometimes it can even cause harmful side effects. Each year the flu shot affects ten to twenty percent of the US population‚ and over one hundred thousand people are hospitalized including twenty thousand deaths (Marshall). People
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Critical Regulatory Issue in Health Care Febuary 19‚ 2013 HCS/430 Ann Nevers Critical Regulatory Issue in Health Care Pharmacists are vital to the health care industry because it provides medicine. Over time the responsibilities and duties of pharmacists have shifted drastically. The Food and Drug Administration is an agency that monitors and ensures safety of medicines Americans will use. Pharmaceuticals are the most regulated products in the country. The laws pertaining to the
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1. a) Define a cell. b) What is a unicellular organism? c) Can a cell be multicellular? A) the structural‚ functional‚ and biological unit of all organisms. B) a organism that only consisits on one cell C) A single cell cannot be multicellular. 2. a) What is a difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? b) What is one significant similarity? A) eukaryotic cells have a neuclus‚ prokaryotic cells do not. B) Both have DNA 3. Which type of microscopy provides a 3d view of the surface of
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Isolation Precautions Special precautionary measures‚ practices‚ and procedures used in the care of patients with contagious or communicable diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides explicit and comprehensive guidelines for control of the spread of infectious disease in the care of hospitalized patients. The type of infectious disease a patient has dictates the kind of isolation precautions necessary to prevent spread of the disease to others. Standard Precautions are
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Ch. 2: Fundamentals of Epidemiology Causality: determining the cause of a disease Screening test: test given to people who have no symptoms to check for the presence of a particular disease Natural History of Disease: the course of disease if left untreated Latency period: time from start of disease process until signs/symptoms appear (Incubation period: time b/w infection & clinical disease) Nonclinical stage: no signs/symptoms present – pathologic changes occur Preclinical – sings/symptoms
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There were eight antibiotics used for this experiment; chloramphenicol (C)‚ erythromycin (E)‚ fusidic acid (FC)‚ oxacillin (OX)‚ novobiocin (NO)‚ penicillin G (PG)‚ streptomycin (S)‚ and tetracycline (T). The mode of action of Chloramphenicol is the inhibition of protein synthesis. Chloramphenicol irreversibly binds to a receptor sit on the 50S subunit of the ribosome on the bacteria that inhibits the enzyme peptidyl transferase. This inhibition results to the prevention of the transfer of amino
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Spies had a huge impact on the Civil War. Spies would transfer information from either Confederacy to Union or from Union to Confederacy. Life as a spy was extremely dangerous. If you were a male caught spying you were sentenced to death in front of a firing squad. For women the sentence was less severe‚ most would just get imprisoned‚ but if caught with very serious information or spying for a second time after being imprisoned‚ they would be killed. Spies had to be extremely quick thinkers in
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behaviour and are not as easy to see and recognise as many physical disabilities. 1.2 •A traumatic injury such as a road traffic accident‚ a fall‚ an assault or a sporting injury •Stroke •Brain tumour •Haemorrhage •Viral infection e.g. meningitis‚ encephalitis or septicaemia •Lack of oxygen to the brain e.g. as a result of a heart attack (anoxia/hypoxia) 2.1 * Cognitive effects * Communicational problems * Emotional and behaviour problems * Hormonal imbalances
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