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A below knee amputee is seen in your clinic for a follow up appointment and states he feels anterior/distal discomfort in his prosthetic socket.  How would you address this problem? 

When choosing if a prosthetic patient is a gel liner candidate, which of the following option(s) would assist you in this decision: 

Which symptom in a patient with asthma indicates severe bronchospasm?

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.