Medical training cannot be equated with merely studying for a degree. It encompasses much more, challenging one's values, self perception and perspective on life itself. During five years at medical school, the individual irreversibly alters to become "a medic", not just "a student of medicine", no matter how much detachment from the course and its associated lifestyle the individual has endeav...

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Preserving data for a specific system usually depends on the system in question. Different strategies for different file types are necessary to preserve all data for a system. In this demonstration we present tools developed for preserving data for a home computer system from 1984. We present how a tool we developed can be used to retrieve data stored on audio tapes and how this data is migrate...

Introduction Mother-child relationship has a major role in child’s cognitive, emotional and behavior shaping. Unfortunately, the context of domestic violence, this can be negatively impacted becoming strained or distant. Objectives To assess quality Mother-Child Relationship violence intimate partner violence. And to investigate factors influencing Relationship. Methods This is descriptive anal...

Without intervention, a pregnant woman who is a chronic hepatitis B carrier is at risk of transmitting hepatitis B and of her infant becoming a chronic carrier and having a significantly increased lifetime risk of developing liver cancer or cirrhosis. Hepatitis B vaccine and immunoglobulin reduce the risk of the baby becoming a carrier, but with only a short window period after birth to deliver...

Title of Document: FIRST BABY, FIRST YEAR: GRATITUDE AND EMOTIONAL APPROACH COPING AS PREDICTORS OF ADJUSTMENT AND LIFE SATISFACTION DURING THE TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD Sarah Piontkowski, Master of Arts, 2011 Directed By: Mary Ann Hoffman, Ph.D. Professor Department of Counseling and Personnel Services Becoming a mother is one of the most common major life transitions, with approximately 82% of...

How a boy of 10 developed nephrosis more than 60 years ago, how he came to be seen by Sir Frederic Still with interesting later consequences, how his nephrosis cleared following measles, and how all this led to his becoming a distinguished paediatrician is told in a case history based on the diary kept by the boy's mother.

background: using the method “surrogacy” in which a woman accepts to bear and deliver a child for a married couple is considered as a subsidiary method in infertility therapy. this method is relatively new in iran. objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the experiences of the women involved in surrogacy and to reveal some issues related to this method. materials and methods: the m...