Hypnosis can be used in therapy in all of these ways except: 1. to control someone 2. for hypnotic analgesia to reduce pain 3. to patients gain insight into their lives 4. for posthypnotic suggestion to change behavior

True or false mucous membranes destroy pathogens on the outer body surface, at body openings.

When a doctor suspects that a patient may have diabetes based on what symptoms?

An 80-year-old woman comes to the urgent care clinic with dyspnoea on exertion. on physical examination, her blood pressure is 100/70, and her pulse is 75. she has no pulsus paradoxus. her jugular veins are distended, and she has distant heart sounds. in addition, she has extra third and fourth heart sounds. her liver is enlarged, and she has pedal oedema. she has occasional premature ventricular contractions on her electrocardiogram. a chest x-ray reveals clear lung fields with a dilated cardiac silhouette. her echocardiogram reveals ventricular walls with a "speckled pattern". which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? - alcoholic cardiomyopathy- amyloidosis- haemochromatosis- tuberculosis- viral myocarditis