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    tonsillitis, sub-acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Acute tonsillitis. The three characteristic causes are; • Bacteria being strptoccal or hemophilus bacteria. • Viruses for example being adenovirus or Epstein-Barr virus, which can also cause mononucleosis. • Diphtheria, which is a serious disease that forms a false membrane in the throat. The symptoms for acute tonsillitis are, a very fast and sever sore throat that worsens over time, moderate to high fever, difficulty in swallowing, red, oversized

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    USEEIT BLOG APRIL Summer Summer’s so close we can all taste it. College summers seem to be a bit longer than the one’s we had in high school, so what are we going to do with ourselves for the next 4 months? A lot of people try to take summer classes to get ahead, some people go home and get internships, and others go and build up some extra cash working summer jobs. See there’s all this pressure on us college students to go out, work our butts off and be productive; and we should. However it’s

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    Cold antibodies are one of the most encountered discrepancies in transfusion services. These discrepancies can be either benign, meaning they present little harm to the patient, to pathological, meaning they can harm the patient. Benign cold antibodies can affect the ABO typing, the Rh typing, direct anti-globulin test, the antibody detection and identification, and compatibility testing. Pathological cold antibodies are typically seen in cold hemagglutinin disease and certain infectious processes

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    taken was more in depth. Upon completion it was determined that the patient had been adopted as a child and her adopted family had no history of illness aside from common colds or childhood chickenpox. Patient did mention reoccurring infections of mononucleosis as a teenager. Another battery of tests were ordered to include a Monospot test, Lyme disease panel, ANA, and a CSF as the headache was still present. The Monospot test and Lyme Antibodies were negative. The ANA was negative for Lupus and Sjogrens

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    Reflective Research Paper Tine Randrup-Thomsen Le Moyne College Reflective Research Paper Throughout my career as a student, I have met several great teachers that have inspired me in their field of expertise. These teachers often use approaches of great educators and their philosophies of teaching in order to become great teachers. One of the educators that have a valuable approach to teaching is the educator Eleanor Duckworth, who emphasized the development of intelligence through ideas

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    In the United States, the NHERI.org, reports that from 1970 to 2015 home schooling jumped from 13 thousand students to 2200 thousand, in the United States alone. According to the U.S. Department of Education, roughly nine out of ten parents who homeschooled their children during the 2011-12 school year said school environment, meaning safety, drugs, and peer pressure, contributed to their decision. (School, B. T., 2015). I would also venture to say that bullying also played a key role. The number

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    The memoir Brain on Fire, written by author Susannah Cahalan, describes the journey she lived through with an undiagnosed disease. Susannah goes from being a New York Times journalist to being a person who couldn’t control herself and had to be strapped down to the hospital bed, in other words she was becoming psychotic. She did not choose to become the person she was in the hospital, someone who had no control over her body, someone who was lost. This got to a the point to where nurses no longer

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    disorder sits at the almost nonexistent number of 0.3%. This explained why Susannah’s doctors had a difficult time determining her illness. Her doctors misinterpreted her symptoms, attributing them to a wide spectrum of problems and disorders: mononucleosis, alcohol withdrawal, dissociative identity disorder and bipolar disorder. However, none of these problems account for all (or most) of Susannah’s symptoms. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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    of herpes is Epstein-Barr virus (HHV4) which is the causative agent of the ‘kissing disease’ or mononucleosis. The ‘kissing disease’ is contagious and is passed from one person to the other through sharing utensils, saliva, or sneezing interactions with an infected person. Moreover, there is (HHV5), officially known as cytomegalovirus (CMV). Apart from the HHV4, it is also thought to cause mononucleosis. The virus is particularly dangerous for healthy people as it may fail to show any signs or symptoms

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    Characteristics of Leadership During my time as a leadership minor, I have been exposed to countless lessons of leadership. In both the classroom and during retreats, the experiences within the Leadership Studies minor have allowed for a new discovery of the importance of leaders. In each lesson, I have thought about how to use the different concepts of leadership in the classroom. As an aspiring middle school teacher, I consider ways to better interact with my future coworkers and I think of the

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