Below is a conversation between a nurse and a patient. Nurse (using eye contact): “Based on your test results, you have strep throat."
Patient (weeping inconsolably): “I am never going to get better."
Nurse: "We can prescribe antibiotics that will help you feel better."
Patient: "Sure, like pumping me full of drugs will help."
Nurse: "Try the antibiotics until they are finished, and see how you feel."
Which best describes the communication between the nurse and the patient?
O The nurse is using ineffective communication, and the patient is confused by her directions.
O The patient is using ineffective communication by being sarcastic and overly emotional.
O The patient is using only verbal communication.
O The nurse is using only verbal communication.

According to research, which of the following statements reflecting the relationship between emotion and the prefrontal cortex is false? a. the prefrontal cortex to regulate one's emotional response. b. the prefrontal cortex is activated when processing information associated with stress. c. sensory input indicating emotion first enters the prefrontal cortex before traveling to the amygdala. d. the prefrontal cortex processes information associated with emotional pleasure.

During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the mentally ill were housed in

A46-year-old man with a history of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia visits the physician for a routine followup. the patient's job involves a lot of travelling, and he admits to occasionally forgetting to take his medications with him when he travels. he complains of several episodes of chest pain in the past few months. the pain is sharp in nature, mainly over his lower chest and epigastrium, and tends to come on when walking. he believes these episodes are due to indigestion and has been taking antacids. there is a family history of heart disease, and his father died of a heart attack at age 48. on physical examination, his blood pressure is 150/80 mmhg and heart rate is 86/min. his lungs are clear to auscultation. cardiac auscultation reveals normal rate and rhythm, without rubs, gallops, or murmurs. there is no pedal oedema. he is sent for an exercise stress test. five minutes into the test, he develops st depression of 3mm in leads v1-v5. the st segment depression is greater than 0.12 seconds in duration and the stress test is stopped. which of the following is the most appropriate next step in management? - coronary angiography- holter monitor- no further tests are required- repeat stress test with thallium- upper gastrointestinal endoscopy