Doctoral examination

Around 2 30 on Tuesday, August 22, Alex Thorp lost his grip while riding on the back platform of Vehicle 25 as I was driving around the corner from NW 91 st west onto Park Place north. He didn t realize he was hurt until about an hour later. I took him to Mercy Medical Center where a doctor examined him and said he had a mildly fractured wrist. 

At the clinic the doctor examines a third young patient who has missed school because of fever, aches, and bloodshot eyes. Like the first two, the boy has the measles. Not rubella. Rubeola. Like the first two, the boy was never immunized. Few kids in the crowded, innercity neighborhood have been immunized. Measles is rare these days. People forget how dangerous it can be. Parents think of it as a simple matter of temporary freckles and bed rest. They re wrong. Measles makes the patient much more susceptible to other infections. Like encephalitis. The doctor learns that the first patient has just died. 

This was a revolutionary and quite nebulous suggestion, not easily accepted at the time. If it was not for the intervention of Einstein, excited with the proposal, Louis de Broglie would most likely have failed his doctoral examination. Louis de Broglie found support for his hypothesis and attempted to clarify the wave characteristics of a moving electron by... 

Another death at the same time, remembered much later, helps explain the silence. A week before Clara Haber s death, Fritz Haber s dear friend Richard Willstatter started to worry about his ten-year-old son, Ludwig, who seemed unaccountably tired and thirsty. A doctor examined the youngster and declared him perfectly fit. In reality, Ludwig was suffering from unrecognized diabetes. A day later, he fell into a coma and died. 

The pellet remained in Rostov s back until after he learned of Markov s death, about 2 weeks later, whereupon French doctors examined his back. They removed a similar pellet, which was made from an exotic alloy of iridium and platinum and contained the toxin ricin, in time to save Rostov s life. The ri-... 

Occasionally a tongue in cheek reference is allowed to this, see for example the doctor examining the unconscious Bond after his recovery from North Korea in Die Another Day and commenting on the state of OOTs liver. 

Doctors examine the heart s pumping performance and check for evidence of obstruction in coronaiy arteries by -nuclear scanning. The radionuclide Tl-201, when injected into the bloodstream, lodges in healthy heart muscle. Thallium-201 emits gamma radiation, which is detected by a special imaging device called a scintillation camera. The data obtained are simultaneously translated into pictures by a computer. With... 

Swedish chemist Svante August Arrhenius, whose ionic theory of electrolytic solutions became fundamentally important to the progress of electrochemistry, was nearly drummed out of the profession by his skeptical doctoral examiners, who gave him the lowest possible passing grade. 

Telemedicine consultation. Doctor examining an X-ray of a patient s knees (left) and consulting ivith the patient on the screen (right). (Mauro Fermariello/Photo Researchers, Inc.)... 

FIGURE 8.10 Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), a Swedish chemist who laid the groundwork for the understanding of ionic solutions. Although he barely passed his doctoral examination, this same work won him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

Today s rapid-test methods range from the traditional DC load to AC conductance to advanced electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Each has its advantages and limitations—and none fully satisfies all requirements. No single device can assess all battery characteristics on the fly. Much like a doctor examining a patient, or a weatherman forecasting the weather, several methods are needed to assess the overall condition. 

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