I believe it is due to medical greed among the medical community and medical ignorance among the rest of us who give over our sons for this becomingly routine procedure. ... However only in the United States has it become so routine in the hospitals. In 1949 the Lancet, a paper in the United Kingdom, put out an article that demonstrated that no supportive evidence for routine circumcisions existed. ... It was then that the British and the rest of Europe decided that the idea of circumcising baby boys routinely was not practical, and the young practice of six years stopped. ... In 1971 a po...

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Lab findings showed patient's Hemoglobin to be 8g/100ml (normal level is 12-16g/100ml) Her pulse was found to be 48 beats per minute (normal 60-100, 80 being for the average adult). She was also found to have an O2 sat. of 88 (normal being 95-100), suggesting that she was under severe respiratory distress. ... She was immediately placed on a ventilator to facilitate her breathing, and to attempt to increase O2 level to normal range. ... Sterile techniques during suctioning and changing of ventilation tubing are followed routinely to prevent infection. ... Sterile techniques during suctio...

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• Grade Level: High School

At first, I thought that it was normal for a teenage girl to start working out, eating healthy and want to lose several pounds, especially when my sister and I were pretty petite and loved being skinny. ... Then, she started to change her diet routines and went on "juicing.... This is when she started to eat and "act normal" so that her dad would not see that there still was something wrong going on. ... A year after her bad routines to make herself throw up, her organism did all that by itself, without her putting her fingers down the throat. ...

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This is a normal reaction among the human population and it is to be expected among the artists that are challenging these people's views and ways of life. ... Humans like to have a solid ground to stand on because we are creatures of routine. Once that routine is broken, there is a sudden reaction to rebel against that and fight to bring everything back to the "happy normal" they have lived with for so long. ...

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They distributed Presidential proclamations, collected a variety of statistical information on commerce and manufacturing, supplied the names of government employees for the national register, and performed other routine tasks needed for the central government to function effectively. ... Normal routine training sessions are conducted at least every six months. ...

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While psychiatry lost homosexuality as a mental illness in the 1980 DSM-III, the APA found other groups it could pathologize, groups that could not mobilize and resist, most notably children, who are now routinely given psychiatric diagnoses for behaviors that many of us view as normal for their ages. They can easily diagnose a child with a disorder, even though the child is displaying normal behaviors for his or her age. ...

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In the morning of 7th December in 1941 at approximately 7:45 am, a surprise bombing attack on the United State's Pacific Fleet military base in Hawaii, by the Japanese Navy was conducted. Over 2,500 people were killed and 1,000 had casualties. 18 of America's ships were either destroyed or damaged a...

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The implication created by the author here is that when the war began, men were forced to leave their normal ways of life and join the others in the battlefield. ... O'Brien portrays war as a hindrance to a man's normal life. ... This was extreme overkill; villages and innocent people were routinely killed in these bombing runs. ...

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Like most people, they have a stable places or communities, and they also need a routine health check, which varies policies in different states or communities. ... Normal people have to work and pay the tax for the country. ...

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Except in the most developed areas, the clinics and hospitals don't have access to even routine medications, common to any American emergency room, let alone newfangled medicines like ZMapp.... She left Emory University Hospital on Tuesday, free of the virus and on her way back to a normal life and Nina Pham, was discharged from the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Maryland....

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Use of plastic bags becomes a part of our daily life. They are convenient and easy to use. Plastics bags are popular for the consumer and retailer because they are cheap, strong, and we seem to unable to do anything without them. Plastic bags aren't just at the grocery store; they are everywhere, fr...

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"The inmate volunteers-after a promise of a pardon-were gradually weaned away from their normal diet and given a steady supply of cornbread, sweet potatoes, grits, and rice. ... "Doctors face the issues of informed consent in their daily routine practice of patient care. ...

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According to Kapila, "Smegma, a natural substance of dead skin cells, normal flora, and secretions containing an antibacterial agent lysozyme, is more likely to accumulate when the foreskin is present." ... There are differences between ritual and routine circumcisions. ...

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For instance, slaves were restricted from perusing and composing, and holders were ordered to routinely hunt slave residencies down suspicious activity.the war successfully finished bondage, before the Thirteenth Amendment (December 1865) formally banned the establishment all through the United States. ... The normal pay for whites would dependably be more than negros. ...

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Assessment of Biological Variation Factors This pleasant, forty-seven year old female is here today for a routine physical examination and to have yearly labs completed. ... Past medical history is the normal childhood diseases such as chicken pox, measles, and occasional colds and flu's over the last few years. ...

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• Grade Level: High School