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And it has a very nice acute property.
Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia.
Now, I work in acute care.
Each of these would be an admission to an acute care hospital, at the end of which, or at some point during which, somebody says, enough is enough, and we stop.
So in the industrialized world, we built walls that protect us from the externalities of our energy use; we can afford to clean up acute environmental disasters; and we can also afford to adapt to chronic conditions like climate change.
If you had an acute congestive heart failure, they could bleed a pint of blood from you by opening up an arm vein, giving you a crude leaf preparation of digitalis and then giving you oxygen by tent.
This is an acute question for me, because I'm a prominent advocate of the existence of human nature, with all its shortcomings and perversities.
Two men, Rahul and Rajiv, living in the same neighborhood, from the same educational background, similar occupation, and they both turn up at their local accident emergency complaining of acute chest pain.
And this is most acute for the places that house the people that are most vulnerable among us: nursing homes, hospitals, homeless shelters, housing projects.
And the question I asked myself is: If I couldn't do that, then who was I? They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.
Let's start with leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, ALL, the most common cancer of children.
So it's a short-term acute measure, but for goodness sake, don't become addicted to alcohol as a way of getting to sleep every night.
So, with the advice of my physician, I had myself admitted to the acute care psychiatric unit of our university hospital.
But if you said to me, "You have to have acute anxiety for the next month," I would rather slit my wrist than go through it.
So if you're wearing it under pants or a skirt or a sari, it's really obvious that you're wearing a prosthetic limb, and in societies where there's social stigma around being disabled, people are particularly acute about this.
Studying that fly, I thought, "Wow, it's changing directions in midair with acute angles, and it's going so fast, it's a blur.
If we want to better understand and decode diseases like cancer, we need to stop treating them as acute, isolated episodes, and consider and measure everything that affects our health on a permanent basis.
It is deeper, it is a process, it is acute awareness that we are all utterly inter-bended, and one action by one being in one tiny town has consequences everywhere.
They are places for acute trauma and treatable illness.
And it's even more acute in countries like China, where a process of rapid urbanization, mass migration, has left older people alone in the villages.
While there was certainly the acute pain of the encounter, the real issue is that my appearance can tell anyone anything about my ability.
He's really engaged for a struggle for movement, fraught with acute mental distress.
The biggest health risk occurs when lots of ionizing radiation hits us in a short time period, also known as an acute exposure.
Fortunately, acute exposures are rare, but we are exposed daily to lower levels of ionizing radiation from both natural and man-made sources.
An acute exposure to one sievert will probably cause nausea within hours, and four sieverts could be fatal.
With that, hospitals can and should reduce to smaller, agile and mobile care centers focused on acute care.
There were some encouraging men along the way, but none knew the demands and pressures I was facing, pressures that got particularly acute when I had my own two beautiful children.
And the focus when I'm talking about the diarrheal organisms, as well as the focus when I'm talking about any organisms that cause acute infectious disease, is to think about the problem from a germ's point of view, germ's-eye view.
And the partisan climate divide is far more acute here in the United States.
Being a biology student, I had some prior exposure to disease, and being a fairly informed gay man, I had read a bit on HIV, so to me, it clicked that this was seroconversion, or as it's sometimes called, acute HIV infection.
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