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Your aunt has had an acute myocardial infarction (MI) and your uncle has a history of angina. Your aunt asks you how they will know if his pain is angina or if he is actually having an MI. Which statement would be correct?

You look back at John’s history, prior to the development of left heart failure, and notice that he had a recent hospital admission for:

Your mother asks what could have possibly led to right-sided heart failure in your father. You inform her that:

Surgical stone removal is indicated for:

Bobby’s dad (with type 2 diabetes) asks you why insulin injections have not been prescribed for his type 2 diabetes. You tell him:

A child asks you if he will outgrow his type 1 diabetes and eventually be cured. You tell him:

The functional unit of the kidney is known as the:

Micturition is stimulated by:

Partial obstructions with manifestations of hard, solidly formed stool are most likely located in which colon segment?

Your grandmother, a cook at a nearby school, was recently hospitalized when she lost an extensive amount of blood in a work-related accident. She tells you that she heard the nurse say that she would keep feeling faint until her brain made more blood. You recognize that when her blood pressure dropped, the pressure in her carotid arteries decreased. This was detected by baroreceptors in the carotid arteries, which acted then to: