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Read the following texts and answer the questions that follow:The field of Medicine forces a confrontation between scientific and everyday language. Outside the world of research laboratory and clinic, there exists daily routine of medical practice, a situation where a doctor tries to understand the problems of a patient, and the patient attempts to understand the doctor’s diagnosis. The initial statement of symptoms of any disease is of critical importance as it guides the doctor’s search for the clinical signs of the condition. Similarly, the doctor’s explanation of the problem, and the recommendation for treatment need to be clear and complete if the patient is to understand and follow the correct course of action.The need for careful listening and expression by both parties should be obvious in a field as sensitive and serious as health. Patients worried about their health care often uncertain and confused in their accounts. Busy doctors will not have the time to take up every point the patient has referred to. Moreover, the tradition of medical interviewing hinders the development of genuine communication.From the passage, why are doctors sometimes unable to treat patients properly?

QUESTION 3A previous study of this cohort found high rates…What can you infer from the extract?

In the Extract below, what is the noun form of effective and another adjectival form for nutritional as they are used in this text? Margaret P Rayman, in a 2000 Lancet medical journal article, titled “The importance of selenium for human health”, explains that selenium is an effective immune booster. As a broad-spectrum, anti-viral nutritional supplement it works to both help prevent and treat viral infections. Selenium helps against most viruses that cause disease in humans. … Just as selenium helps against HIV, hepatitis B and C, influenza, rhinovirus (common cold), Coxsackie, Ebola, Marburg and Hanta, it should also help against Covid-19. (Taken from an information leaflet provided by Selenium Education and Research Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 2020.)

Which word-class is the word trajectories?

Tunicates, or sea squirts, belong to which subphylum of chordates?

Insects belong to which subphylum of Arthropoda?

The presence of a backbone or vertebral column is a characteristic of which chordate subphylum?

Which of these is a marine class of annelids known for their many setae?

Arthropods exhibit which type of symmetry?

What type of symmetry do annelids exhibit?