When assessing a patient, what symptom might be present to help determine that the patient has Cushing's syndrome versus Addison's disease?
A) Hyperpigmentation of skin and gums
B) Fatigue
C) Inability to respond to stressors
D) "Moon face" appearance
D
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a. achieve during exercise. b. not exceed. c. have at rest. d. maintain during ADLs.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A physician is employed by a group practice. The physician decides to leave the practice and open his own private practice. May he have the records of the patients he is currently seeing? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Melanoma is significant because ________
A) darkly pigmented people do NOT get it B) it has a low mortality rate C) it has the MOST rapidly increasing mortality rate of any cancer D) it only strikes in the 25—29 age group