A 68-year-old female patient visits your practice complaini…
A 68-year-old female patient visits your practice complaining of a painful posterior tooth that she wants to have extracted. Upon taking her medical history, she reveals that she recently underwent surgery for a fractured hip, and is currently taking warfarin (and has been on it for the last 3 months). She is unsure of the dose.What would be considered a safe INR value should you decide to extract the painful tooth ?
Read DetailsOften the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless ra…
Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its eyes, and its own excrement to sit in. from “The Ones Who Walk Way from Omelas” In the story, LeGuin draws attention to
Read Details“Song: To Lucasta…” Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, …
“Song: To Lucasta…” Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True: a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov’d I not Honour more. The speaker of this poem has decided to leave his companion because
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