Dysphonia

masculinity to feminized masculinity as a deviance from normal femininity stemming for the “anger and disappointment that all little girls experience when they recognize that their genitals are inferior to male genitals” (Gardiner 599). This “gender dysphonia” is tied directly to family dynamics and “nonconformist responses to sexism and homophobia” (Gardiner 601). Therefore, Stoller’s understanding of female masculinity is a masculinity created “as pathological aberrations from a natural…

Gender reassignment, sex change, sex reassignment surgery, or sex realignment surgery, regardless of what name is used, this process is lengthy and has many variables. For the sake of this paper, and most commonly, I will refer to the above mentioned as Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS). In essence, this is a procedure that permanently alters and reassigns ones born gender from male-to-female, or female-to-male. This might sound simple, however there are many things to consider when one is…

Introduction The menopause is the period of time a woman 's life, at which her ability to give birth ends. The main natural fact is the end of the menstrual flow and it causes reduced secretion of the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone. Symptoms have been related to menopause are mood changes, sleep disorders, urinary incontinence, cognitive changes, somatic complaints, sexual dysfunction, and reduced quality of life may be secondary to other symptoms or related to other causes.…

Loneliness Ever found yourself trapped in a situation you cannot escape or lonelier than you can imagine, but not as trapped and lonely as Sly and Mr. Leonard. In the Evil Monkey Robot by Mary Robinette Kowal and in The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, charters often feel treated the way they do not want to be treated in their life and characters feel trapped or are struggling to escape from their lives and or feel that people judge them so harshly, so quickly and others feel lonely because they…

Cosmetic Use of Botulinum Toxin Type A Introduction Botulinum toxin was first identified as a cause of food poisoning over 100 years ago (Carruthers and Carruthers, 2009). Since then, there has been an identification of seven different serotypes labeled A-G; all produced by different strains of the bacteria Clostridium botulinum (Hurkadle et al., 2012). Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) is the main and most well-studied serotype that is used in cosmetic (Hurkadle et al., 2012). The BTX-A can be…

Let it Blow Respiratory Case Study Elijah Stevens is 74 year old male with a history of COPD. He is admitted to the hospital for an exacerbation of his COPD. He continues to smoke cigarettes (reports one pack a day). His current medications include theophylline, albuterol inhaler, beclomethasone dipropionate inhaler and a chewable aspirin 81 mg once a day. His lung sounds are diminished bilaterally. Pulse oximetry reading is 90%. He is receiving oxygen at 2 liters per nasal cannula. He…