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As ethics is an incredibly important part of medicine it should be in place for all our decisions, so is lying to a patient acceptable and is misleading better than lying?

In general it is unacceptable to lie to patients according to the GMC, honesty must tried to be upheld and maintained wherever possible. In extreme circumstances lying may be permissible in order to prote...

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The sides of a rectangle are x and (x+2), where x>0 the area of the rectangle is 8, what is the value of x?

X*(X+2) = 8X² + 2X = 8X² +2x-8=0S 2P -8N 4, -2(X+4)(X-2)X=-4 X=2X can only be positive in this case so X=2

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Describe how a phagocyte defends the body

The phagocyte is attracted to a pathogen, the pathogen binds to the phagocyte and then the phagocyte engulfs the pathogen. The pathogen is then contained in a phagosome which has been cleaved off the memb...

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To what extent could it be argued that the aesthetic representation of the women in Keats’ ‘Lamia’ and Swift’s ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’ is used in order to vilify them?

One way in which both poems could be seen as similarly vilifying the characters of Celia and Lamia is through the depiction of their physical appearances as devices of deception by means of concealing the...

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Discuss, with examples, the role of molecular machinery within transcription and translation.

Transcription and translation are processes that result in gene expression through the synthesis of proteins based upon the reading of genes by molecular machines. These processes arise from the action of...

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