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Dehydration

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Dehydration Dehydration is a condition that occurs when your body does not get enough water. Without enough water, your body cannot function well. Your dehydration can be moderate or severe depending on the amount of water/fluid your body has lost. What Causes Dehydration? 75% of your body weight is contributed by water (H 2 O). This means that water is very important for your body to function properly. Losing water from your body is normal. You can lose it normally through: ·          Peeing ·          Breathing ·          Tears ·          Spitting saliva ·          Sweating ·          Urinating We usually replace the amount of lost water through the above ways by taking fluids and eating foods that contain plenty water such ...

What Should a Doctor Look Like?

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While some of the flight attendants were men, most were women, so this is not just a case of discrimination by men, but discrimination by women against other women, particularly women “of color”. In Australia at least, the majority of medical students are now female, yet discrimination still abounds, and ironically, women are a big part of this. We say that we would prefer to have a female doctor for ourselves, yet when it comes to power and authority, some women are happy to hand the power over to men. Most powerful positions – heads of department, board members and official positions in our colleges – are held by men. Medicine is still a men’s club, and women are allowing this. Dr. Tamika Cross, a black woman and OBGYN from Houston, was on a returning flight home and Delta Airlines initially refused her to see another passenger who needed medical attention because a flight attendant didn’t think she fit what a doctor looked like.Cross details the flight attendant’s in...