First Blood

First off, The Crips are an African American gang founded in Los Angeles California in 1969. Throughout the years this gang expanded to be one of the bulkiest and prevailing gangs in the United States, with more than 30,000 gang members. The Crips are known to be muddled in robberies, murders, drug dealing, and many other criminal pursuits. The Crips ultimately became the most powerful gang in California. The Blood was founded on Piru Street in the Compton, California in 1970. In 1970 many…

these disease is my grandma who passed away of AML in 2001. AML is a perfect example of how an abnormality in the DNA can have catastrophic results. Acute Myeloid Leukemia is a form of cancer in which bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts, red blood cells, and platelets. Myeloblasts are a type of white…

Some people say that they golf to relax. I however cannot understand that statement. Personally I would rather just throw my first three balls directly into the river and drop my fourth two hundred feet from the green. And I’d rather build castles in the sand trap rather than try to pitch a ball out of it. But somehow in the seventh grade I found myself on the junior high golf team. Although I didn’t know it when I wrote my name on the sign-up sheet, golf would teach me the most important lesson…

The role of the phenomenon of postmortem redistribution in forensic cases Abstract It has been established in several studies that a postmortem blood sample examination is not always a reliable reflect of blood sample examination during life. There are a large number of variables affecting the blood concentration of foreign substances in a living individual, in the other hand, there are also a number of factors that can change their levels after death. Although the underlying mechanisms involved…

What is the Development of Acute Kidney Failure (AKF)? Acute kidney failure is a type of kidney failure that occurs when the kidneys suddenly lose their functions and become incapable of filtering wastes products from the blood. The chance of acquiring AKF is greater if the patient is already hospitalized. In addition, AKF develops quickly and require intensive treatment. On the other hand, the patients could recover normal renal function if their health are good. AKF is characterized by…

dermis is the inner and thicker layer of the skin and is a fibrous connective tissue that provides strength to the skin (lecture supplement, ch.6). When injury or damage occurs to the skin, it goes through 4 different phases to repair itself. The first being homeostasis because of the body and its structures natural response to keep things the same at all times. The second stage would be inflammation, where the damaged and dead cells are cleared out of the wound. The third stage is…

of the body systems? The artificial heart supports the role of a heart because an artificial heart supports the heart by helping it pump necessary blood and oxygen around the body in order for the body to properly function. Why is the device needed? The artificial heart is needed if you have severe heart failure and your heart cannot pump enough blood around the body in order for the body to function properly. Severe heart failures are commonly caused by diseases, infections or heart attacks.…

We discussed breaking bad news to parents in our feedback session where we talked about how important it is for doctors to be able to break bad news, and that it is a vital skill to have. In my opinion, the conversation with the parents will be to say that there is little hope for survival and no hope for survival without serious handicap in this child as I’ve highlighted above, and that the resuscitation should be abandoned. The process of therapeutic hypothermia involves the baby being cooled…

TREATMENT GOALS • Stop progression of the disease • Prevent additional vision loss • Minimize functional impairment • Vision rehabilitation DISPOSITION • Recommendations for specialist referral ○ Patients who experience vision loss must be referred to an ophthalmologist experienced in retinal diseases ○ Immediate referral to a retina specialist is recommended when choroidal neovascularization is suspected or new visual symptoms appear in early macular degeneration ○ Consultation with the…

The source of the fountain of your royal blood has stopped. Your royal father has been murdered. Macduff and Macbeth are telling Malcolm that his father is dead. C. Conclusions: Macbeth used the word blood in an interesting way. Macbeth said “the fountain of your blood is stopp’d” which was a way for him to tell Malcolm his father is dead. General Conclusions for Act 2: 1.) In Act 2 the word blood was used negatively. Like Act 1, when the word blood was used it was about murder. 2.)In…