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Working harder to increase income in order to pay the rent, or easing off to reduce the pressure and possibly failing to pay the rent. Everybody has demands. The net demand placed on anybody is the sum of the demands placed on each role a person has. Most people have many roles: spouse, parent, employee, earner, carer, friend, colleague, mentor, houskeeper, manager etc.. Each of these roles comes with its own demands. When the total demand approaches an individual's capacity to meet it, the individual begins to experience anxiety. At this point, they will begin to reduce their output to some demands (i.e. by reducing their activity in other roles). Unfortunately, this often leads to an unbalance. For example, if work demands increase, then, to maintain a 'steady' load, a person will often reduce their input into other roles such as spouse, friend, parent; those more flexible 'social' roles. This may ease the net demand, but places stress on those relationships. If it goes on too long, those relationships may begin to break down, which places a greater load on the individual. If the net demand exceeds the capacity of an individual, then that individual will fail to cope. This failure to cope is the beginning of a 'nervous breakdown' (which as Peels stated, is not a clinical term). Whatever role begins to fail will present a disproportionate demand, heightened by anxiety and fear of failure. The individual will devote more than necessary resources to keeping that particular ball in the air. At this point, other balls begin to fall leading to more anxiety (greater demand) and increased stress. If nothing changes significantly, this will soon lead to a generalised failure to cope and an almost phobic avoidance of further demand. The individual will shut themselves off, physically and emotionally to avoid further demands, but in the process, also close themselves off from any support that might be available. This is also accompanied by a severe depression, even more anxiety and a severe reduction in self-esteem and self-efficacy. This is what is commonly termed a nervous breakdown. The important thing to remember is that it doesn't really matter where the demands come from. It is the net demand that is critical. As such, when the net demand is exceeded, the failure to cope will be generallised. For example, if the demands of a person's job grow too high, their family/social life will suffer also. If the demands of their social relationships increase too much (e.g. marital/relationship difficulties), then their work will suffer. People only have one focus of attention and that will tend to be directed towards the source of the greatest perceived demand (i.e. the source of greatest anxiety), so by definition, all other demands will recieve less attention. If those demands are 'maxed out' and cannot afford such a reduction, then they will begin to fail and the whole process begins to collapse. It is for this reason that balance is important, as is maintaining a margin of safety. It is dangerous to 'max out' any particular demand (e.g. job), if the demands of other roles (e.g. parent/spouse/friend/carer or whatever) are also close to maximum.

Veins (i.e. just the vessels) are the same colour as arteries; sort of pinky red. They are thinner walled than arteries though, and this means that the colour of the deoxygenated blood shows through (looking blue ish). Deoxygenated blood is just very dark red/purple. You can see the colour if you take venous blood directly into an anaerobic sample container (no oxygen).

Oh yeah. I had loads of pornography, but I couldn't find a pornograph to play it on, so I had to get rid of it.

Octopi have green blood. It is not iron based as is the blood of mammals, it is copper based.

I sincerely hope so!

It is a problem if you can't go without spending hours at a time online. Try it and see how you feel. See how you feel not going online for a week. Check your mail and stuff, but then come off and do something else. Take your wife out or just spend time time doing other things. If you start feeling edgy or can't think of anything but being online or messing with your computer, then you may well have a problem.

I can't answer that question. I know nothing about the case. I suspect that very few people apart from those directly involved do. Anyone else will have 'heard that...' and drawn their own conclusions, probably on minimal direct evidence. I strongly doubt any doctor anywhere could order a patient to be murdered and have that order obeyed. Nobody said illegible handwriting was acceptable. It happens.

That much water will screw up the osmotic balance in your kidneys and you will go into renal failure. Shortly after that, the fluid balance between your central and peripheral compartments will also screw up, as will your electrolyte balance and you will go into heart failure. The whole "8 glasses a day" or "2 litres a day" is a bit of a misunderstanding. The original data show that we excrete around 2 lites of water a day (mainly through urine, but also through perspiration and breathing, and the amounts lost by these mechanisms depend on local climate, levels of activity and so-on). The idea is to maintain optimal hydration, which simply means replacing what we lose. It's a fairly simple equation: Intake = loss. However, what has been lost in the forming of this apocryphal 'fact' is that our total fluid intake needs to be around 2 litres a day, but much of the fluids we need are taken in through food. All we need to drink is enough to make up the difference, and this varies hugely depending upon other factors (e.g. activity and local climate).

A few seconds. As soon as the circulation had stopped, neurones would begin to starve of oxygen. You would pass out in a few seconds. Cell death would occur after a few minutes.

It's not quite that bad here yet. In the UK, they tend to allow only those qualified to make a valid assessment look at the notes. Lawyers, bless their li'l hearts, are not. Neither (as far as I know) are they allowed to look at patients notes until or unless it's decided there is some questions concerning the death and/or treatment and the court has ordered the notes to be released, as that would be a breach of patient confidentiality (as, I have no doubt, the lawyer would be the first to point out )

I know what you mean. A lot happens in a very short space of time. Once an AP has passed, the membrane hyperpolarises and the sodium channels become 'locked', (known as the refractory period), which prevents tetany. But even this lasts only around 2 milliseconds.

It is another layer of safety so that should a doctor make an error, the nurses don't just blindly follow incorrect instructions, but think for themselves and question them. Our nurses are qualified to know what is and what isn't an appropriate dose. They are just not allowed to presecribe. As far as I know they are not allowed to kill any. Every time a patient dies, the cause must be established (although it's often known) and recent treatment is reviewed to ensure it was correct.

Well, doctors are sheilded by another layer of staff. The question "Why did you not write legibly" would be preceded by the question "Why did you follow a drugs chart you couldn't read?". I.e., the nurse is held accountable. Even if the writing is legible and the doctor writes the wrong dose. If the nurse administers the dose, s/he is accountable.

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As for the composition, the plasma membrane is just the usual phospholipid bilayer (mainly fat), and many layers of this makes a very good electrical insulator.

You should spend some time in a London hospital.

How very Monty Python.

That's mainly because they were learned series of fine motor actions controlled by the cerebellum. There are clusters of receptors at joints, but these are proprioceptive and provide feedback to the brain concerning the relative positions of the joints. There isn't really much 'beefy neural hardware' in the spine. Most (though not all) sensory pathways are quite simple 3 neuron pathways: From the receptor to the dorsal horn of the spine, from the dorsal horn to the thalamus, and from the thalamus to the appropriate areas of the somatosensory cortex. No idea I'm afraid.

The primary somatosensory cortex is topographically representative of the body. Nerve impulses from your finger terminate in the part of the somatosensory cortex that is dedicated to your finger, and signals from your leg go to the area dedicated to your leg.

Yeah. If it had been kids they probably would have just used fly spray or set fire to the hives or something. The stuff YT describes sounds more specialised, which would suggest planning.

Yeah. A few of the doctors at the hospital I worked at developed their own word templates for pathology request forms though. They could just type the requests and then put the correct forms (haematology, chem. path. micro. etc.) into their printer and print out a batch of legible requests (yay!). Some worked better than others, but it did show that they recognised the need and were prepared to make the effort

Oh yeah. I also know the odds of it working properly (do I sound cynical?)