The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might they verify this? • What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have? • What is the appropriate treatment for her condition? • Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency T department personnel or family members with whom she lives?

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• The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might they
verify this?
• What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have?
• What is the appropriate treatment for her condition?
• Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency T
department personnel or family members with whom she lives?
Appreciate
Transcribed Image Text:QUESTIONS: • The health care providers suspect the patient has leprosy. How might they verify this? • What type of leprosy is this patient more likely to have? • What is the appropriate treatment for her condition? • Who has the higher risk of contracting the disease: the emergency T department personnel or family members with whom she lives? Appreciate
A WOMAN WITH NO FEELINGS
A 41-year-old woman arrives in the hospital emergency department with third-
degree burns on the second and third fingers of her left hand. Through a family
member who acts as an interpreter, she tells the triage nurse that she had moved to
the United States from Brazil barely six months before. This evening she had been
sitting in her living room, cigarette in hand, watching the nightly news, when she
noticed the odor of something burning. As she rose to investigate, she saw that her
fingers were blackened and smoking where the cigarette had burned down. With a
jerk she discarded the cigarette and marveled that she felt no pain-it was as if her
fingers were not her own.
Transcribed Image Text:A WOMAN WITH NO FEELINGS A 41-year-old woman arrives in the hospital emergency department with third- degree burns on the second and third fingers of her left hand. Through a family member who acts as an interpreter, she tells the triage nurse that she had moved to the United States from Brazil barely six months before. This evening she had been sitting in her living room, cigarette in hand, watching the nightly news, when she noticed the odor of something burning. As she rose to investigate, she saw that her fingers were blackened and smoking where the cigarette had burned down. With a jerk she discarded the cigarette and marveled that she felt no pain-it was as if her fingers were not her own.
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