A32-year-old female comes to the clinic because of altered bowel motility. she is having daily diarrhea and bloating, although she says she has experienced bowel irregularity for years. she was recently treated aggressively for a sinus infection with antibiotics. a stool culture was negative for clostridium difficile or other pathogens. which treatment would you consider before a referral to gastroenterology?

Burns are devastating and debilitating because of loss of fluids and electrolytes from the body. how do physicians estimate the extent of burn damage associated with such dangerous fluid loss?

Insulin is a peptide therapeutic used to manage type 1 diabetes, which affects more than 20 million people worldwide according to the international diabetes federation. a significant limitation to the broad distribution and use of insulin to treat type 1 diabetes is the fact that it must be administered by injection rather than orally. why is insulin administered by injection and not orally?

Which statement best illustrates that problem solving can create new medical devices? robert hooke was in charge of verifying the information that was sent to the royal academy. william harvey did experiments with apes to learn about the circulatory system. the stethoscope was invented because the physician did not want to put his head on women's chests to listen to their heart and lungs. anton van leeuwenhoek was a very curious man and looked at just about everything under this microscope.