Pros And Cons Of Cadmium

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Take a look into a person’s mind and you never know what you may find. House is an amazing television program where Dr.House has his very own drug addiction. He has doctors that follow him and his crazy way of diagnosing patients in New Jersey. Being able to act like him for the following assignment was different but enjoyable all at the same time.
My patient arrived by the name of Hank Wiggin. He was just a young kitten, as some would say. He was an outstanding ballplayer at one point of time in his life; sadly he got addicted to drugs. He decided to get cleaned up and that took him out of the pros for a short period of time. Hank then went to japan where he played ball for about a year before coming home to play in the pros again. He felt fine, never felt any pain, and was really excited for his return in pro baseball.
There is a debate that there is not actually one person who discovered cadmium. In the year 1817, a physician named Friedrich Stromeyer was one of the first ones who discovered cadmium. There were two more people named K.S.L. Hermann and J.C.H. Roloff that also discovered cadmium the same year. Cadmium is a naturally occurring metal. Cadmium was first discovered in vapors that came out of furnaces. It was found because zinc oxide was being roasted. Some of the early signs of it were in paints. People would want to make light colored paint darker so they would add cadmium, which would cause a brighter color. The pigments were primarily made from cadmium sulfide. Cadmium was also used for making leather gloves darker (Dartmouth, 2010). Cadmium toxicity is when a person eats food that has high levels, breathes in high levels, or drinks water with high levels of cadmium. Short-term or long-term exposer can be harmful...

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...life threating issue? How would he of ever know that the soil had high levels of cadmium? I would still care for this patient like I would any other patient. He didn’t know that he caused this by smoking marijuana. There are so many states legalizing it anymore that are more common that people are smoking. Hopefully someday, people that smoke will be more willing to tell doctors and nursing that they partake in such activities. I would always talk to the patient first and find out the most I can because making assumptions and having to ask the family. I don’t want to go up to a young adult, who still lives at home, and ask if there are any drugs that they know that there child might have smoked or taken. I would make sure I let them know how serious this poisoning was and make sure they know where there supply is coming from, if I can’t get them to stop smoking it.

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