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All of the following statements are true regarding domestic abuse except: 

A 45 year old male with a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease presents with a chief complaint of painful area on his right side for two days. He denies nausea, vomiting, trauma, cough and rash. Examination reveals tenderness in a horizontal linear pattern over the right lateral thorax. You take all the history and physical examination findings into consideration and prioritize your list of possible diagnoses. Based on the most likely cause which one of the following steps will you take first?

Lorie, age 29, appears with the following signs: pale conjunctiva and nailbeds, heart murmur, cheilosis, abdominal tenderness,and koilonychia. What do you suspect?

All of the following statements regarding nonpharmacologic management of persistent pain in older patients are TRUE EXCEPT:

An 80 year-old resident of a long-term care facility who has a history of multiinfarct dementia (MID) is alert but disoriented to person, place and situation. His only health problems are MID and osteoarthritis. Over the past two weeks he has become agitated, has demonstrated exit-seeking behavior and has been noted to be continually rubbing his knees. The nurse practitioner suspects that this client is likely experiencing:

The ethical duties of a criminal defense attorney and a prosecutor are essentially the same because they are both lawyers governed by a set of established professional rules,

If a defendant is poor enough to qualify for food stamps, states are automatically required to provide the defendant with an attorney.

According to the text, when a police officer fires multiple shots at a suspect, it may simply reflect that officers are on average poor shots and miss their targets even after extensive firearms training.

According to the text, young recruits may be encouraged by more experienced officers to accept free meals or similar small gratuities to establish whether the new officer’s loyalty to the squad can be relied upon.

The most fundamental expression of legal ethics is that the client’s interests should take precedence over those of the lawyer.