(UN News, 2010) Seventy-one million chest x-rays are performed in the U.S. annually. ... (Thompson, 2005) In a study at twenty clinical sites, John Garner, MS, RT(R), the director of Ivy Tech State College radiography program found that the dose rates for posteroanterior chest x-rays on CR systems ranged from 0.22 milligrays to 1.035 milligrays over four patient categories of body types with only the smallest body type falling within the AAPM's 0.25 milligray maximum reference value. ...

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The political, economic and social landscape of Northern Ireland pre-1969, can be compared with "powder-keg" Europe before World War I. There was no one factor that led to troubles in Northern Ireland, but was rather a culmination of circumstances and events stemming from the dominance of Protestants in the region. The establishment of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and the Campaign for Social Justice spear-headed Catholic and Nationalist campaigns to co-ordinate a fight against the Protestant State. Inequality in Northern Ireland is a very broad subject. I will set out to sho...

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This essay will lay emphasis on a patient case study and will explore the nursing intervention, assessment and individualised care the patient will receive during his stay in the hospital. With compliance to the NMC code of professional practice (NMC 2015), a pseudo name will be used in a view to up...

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Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries. Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or...

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