Reading Comprehension

Now, the same commenter, "seeingdouble," has recently posted a new comment on my blog in which she states that I did not answer her question about being certified. Check again.

So I have a new lesson today for her on "Reading Comprehension." Enjoy!

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I just got back from duty- 24 hour shift! Woohoo! Glad that's over. Nothing major, just your routine transports. I had a few patients that were friends of mine, thankfully they weren't seriously hurt.

I spent the day with my biomedical engineering mentor. We went over the electrospinning process and I read part of the textbook on tissue engineering. Pretty interesting stuff. Basically, what an electrospinner does is make cotton candy (but out of collagen, or whatever substance you want to use). First, though, you have to refine the collagen from a source, such as rat tails, and this process takes a while. Then you mix the collagen with an aqueous solution and load it into a syringe. You charge the needle (giving it a positive charge of, I think, 28000 volts) and then you place a metal rod a few inches in front of the needle which is connected to a ground. The syringe is then depressed at a constant rate and as the solution shoots out of the needle, the base evaporates (it's very volatile) and you are left with a fiber that wraps around the metal rod. This same process can also be used with a different protein, fibrinogen, and used to make gauze that can be used as an instant bloodstopper. It's pretty cool.

Right now I'm being forced to read "All the King's Men" for my AP English class. I'm really getting tired of reading these stories. Is it really so bad that I refuse to think that America and its democratic-republic is evil? I'm tired of reading about political agendas.

Stay safe everyone,
Bravomedic.