|
Author Question: Accuracy in medical documents is extremely important. What risks are posed by inaccurate ... (Read 39 times) |
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
As the western states of America were settled, pioneers often had to drink rancid water from ponds and other sources. This often resulted in chronic diarrhea, causing many cases of dehydration and death that could have been avoided if clean water had been available.
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
The shortest mature adult human of whom there is independent evidence was Gul Mohammed in India. In 1990, he was measured in New Delhi and stood 22.5 inches tall.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.