Food additives are believed to provide benefits to our food supply and are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) to protect the food supply from harmful practices. After reading Chapter 19 in the text, discuss five types of food additives and the rationale for their use in the food supply. Then provide your perspective on whether you believe that food additives offer advantages overall to the food supply or have the potential of causing more harm given the potential for human error and business fraud.

As a medical assistant you will be required to follow certain policies and regulations in reference to your appearance in the medical office. Do you think that appearance plays a big role in the way that you treat a patient? Why or why not?

• Explain the difference between contamination and infection, as well as the stages and nature of infections, and discuss virulence, virulence factors, and pathogenicity. Thus go ahead and differentiate among sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis, degermination, sanitization, and pasteurization and explain their practical uses.
• Discuss inoculation, incubation, and isolation.

Compare and contrast the pharmacology of nicotine and opioids under the following headings: mechanisms of action,  pharmacological effects,  adverse effects, dependence liability, tolerance and withdrawal, pharmacokinetics, and treatment of addiction.

You are the Lead Technologist for the Radiology department in the hospital. You have three shift team leads (A, B and C) who report to you and oversee a team of rad-techs 24 hours and 7 days a week. Your A and C shift teams seem to be operating effectively and smoothly, with no concerns brought forward. However your B shift team has continually missed performance metrics, and goals, and have fallen behind in re-certifications, many times missing deadlines. This leader also has made it known they do not respect their peer team leads and wants nothing to do with either of them. As the Lead Tech, how might you approach this reality with your B shift team lead, referencing your leadership theory choice(s).