unit‚ Patient Y had routine blood drawn‚ which includes a rapid plasma regain (RPR)‚ CBC and differential‚ and a type and screen. Please refer to Appendix B. The RPR was drawn to test for syphilis‚ which is a sexually transmitted disease. Patient Y’s RPR was nonreactive‚ which indicates that she does not have syphilis. Patient Y’s CBC and differential was within the normal limits‚ besides her hemoglobin‚ which was 11.4 g/dL. Since her hemoglobin was a little low routine blood work will be drawn the day
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Reproductive System Assignment: For each scenario below‚ outline the appropriate patient teaching you would perform. First‚ review the “Guidelines for Patient-Teaching Exercises” found on page iv in the “Introduction”. 1. SYPHILIS A patient has been diagnosed with syphilis. The practice has printed instructions for patients diagnosed with this condition. The physician has instructed you to provide the patient with the printed information and to review it with her. How do you approach this patient-teaching
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Separate standards Representations of Sarah Baartman marked a new tendency toward linking the savage to raw sexuality (Abrahams‚ 1998: 227). Baartman‚“The Hottentot Venus” was representative of primitive sexuality and ugliness. She became an icon of the commodification of the female black body and the exploitation of female black sexuality (Ruiz‚ 2013: 137). Fascination with Baartman stemmed from the stark difference of her body from the standard body shape that was expectant of woman in Britain
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freedom. Through the use of fiction‚ Whitehead explores the imaginative possibilities beyond the conditions of the past or present (Wild). Although the story and characters are fictional‚ Whitehead’s use of actual historical data–slave interviews‚ the syphilis and population control experiments‚ real “wanted” ads in the beginning of chapters–demonstrates his ethos to the audience‚ suggesting that his characters’ feelings and experiences were shared by actual slaves. Whitehead’s story follows Cora‚ a
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Mississippi Appendectomies were both horrible cases and dealt with lots of racism and ignorance towards people who didn’t know any better. The purpose of The Tuskegee experiments was to see how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites. The treatment was to basically come in get injected with syphilis if you didn’t already have and the doctors would watch how you die. The people in these experiments were poor and uneducated black males who were coned into giving their life away. The doctors in
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Discrimination in Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks is a black woman who was born in the 1940s. Discrimination of all kinds was at its high point at this time. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a book explaining how her cells helped change and shape the medical field into what it is today. While doing this however there were many trials and tribulations included in this book that were caused mainly because of discrimination at that time. Discrimination was primarily a racial issue at
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of autonomy. Four hundred illiterate black men were told that they were being treated for latent syphilis and were coerced into being a member of this study (Pence 209). Over the forty years‚ the individuals being studied were in fact not treated and the researchers went to extraordinary lengths to prevent any individual from receiving treatment as the goal of the experiment was to observe how syphilis progressed (Pence 209). These African American’s were taken advantage in this long-term federal
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wanting information to get to Henrietta’s family. The scientist was drilling her with questions about African Americans and science. She eclaims that the researchers‚ who performed the study‚ claim the African American race to be‚ “‘a notoriously syphilis-soaked race’” (Skloot 50). Although I do not agree with the way the study was collected‚ the researchers were not wrong in choosing African Americans to perform the study on. In “Remarks by the President in Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee‚” former
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Running head: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases More than 12 million Americans‚ 3 million of whom are teenagers‚ are affected with STDs each year. In 1995 STDs accounted for 87 percent of all cases reported among the top ten most frequently reported diseases in the United States. Since 1980‚ eight new sexually transmitted pathogens have been recognized in the United States. STDs may cause serious‚ life threatening complications including cancers
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In analyzing Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban‚ it was apparent that the ideas and assertions presented in Thomas C. Foster’s chapter “It’s Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness” are relevant in this novel. In applying the assertions from Foster’s chapter‚ one can conclude each character’s “mental illness” reflects their views on identity in addition to allowing the author to expose their true identity and character. In his chapter‚ Thomas C. Foster presents assertions that disease
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