Classical Studies 2900 Lecture : Classics Notes

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purplejackal117

3 Feb 2012

School

Western University

Department

Classical Studies

Course

Classical Studies 2900

Professor

Beate Gundert

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Health is balance, and disease happens when any change in lifestyle and environment causes loss of balance. The purpose of treatment is to restore balance. Physicians must support the nature of the patient and the nature of his body. This nature has a natural tendency to re-establish balance. Cooking the material makes it less harmful, or it must be evaporated out of the body. The physician must strengthen the patient s body, or at least not weaken it. This is the mission statement to help, but not to harm. The three types of treatment are regimen, drugs, or surgery. Regimen is the mildest form of treatment and it involves food. The food must be weakened when given to sick people so that their stomachs can cook it. Regimen means diet and is the conduct of life including times and composition of meals (food and drink), regulation of activity and rest, sleeping and waking, sexual activity, baths, anointing, and massage. (86)

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Match the decision making approach described with thedescriptions that follow.

	A clinician draws blood to determine whether or not a patienthas diabetes but decides not to worry the patient with the resultsunless their blood sugar level is elevated.
	A clinician recommends surgery and discussed with the patientthe steps that will occur as well as the potential harms andbenefits. He then asks the patient to sign permission to undergosurgery.
	A clinician explains the nature of the patientâs illness,outlines the potential treatments, and explains the positive andnegative feature of each potential treatment but does not make arecommendation.

A.	Inform of decision
B.	Informed decision making- informed consent.
C.	Shared decision making

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1) It was determined that Patient 1 has a single amino acid change at position 12 in Ras that eliminates its ability to hydrolyze GTP. The hospital staff plans to use an experimental drug, Drug X, that prevents dimerization of a receptor tyrosine kinase that signals to Ras.

a) additional information is required to determine if this will be a suitable treatment for this patient

b) I would NOT expect this to be a suitable treatment for this patient

c) I would expect this to be a suitbale treatment for this patient

2) It was determined that Patient 2 has a mutation in both copies of the gene that encodes Rb that abolishes the function of Rb protein. The hospital staff plans to use an experimental drug, Drug Y, that inhibits activity of E2F transcription factors

a) additional information is required to determine if this will be a suitable treatment for this patient

b) I would NOT expect this to be a suitable treatment for this patient

c) I would expect this to be a suitbale treatment for this patient

3) It was determined that Patient 3 has a mutation in MDM2 that prevents it from being phosphorylated and mutations in the p14ARF that block all of its expression. The hospital staff plans to use an experimental drug, Drug Z, that damages DNA in fast-growing cells such as tumor cells.

a) additional information is required to determine if this will be a suitable treatment for this patient

b) I would NOT expect this to be a suitable treatment for this patient

c) I would expect this to be a suitbale treatment for this patient

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