Tuberculosis is an infection caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, and it primarily affects the lungs and respiratory system. If the infection goes untreated, it can spread throughout the body and also affect the digestive and central nervous systems. There are thousands of new cases each year in the United States, and early detection through skin testing is the key to successful medical outcomes.
When it comes to raising teenagers, what you don’t know can hurt you! We all do everything we can to keep our kids safe, but we certainly can’t watch them at all times. Unfortunately, even the most conscientious children make foolish decisions, and when they do they attempt to hide them from us and keep them a secret.
You have a responsibility as an employer to provide a safe working environment at all times. This means training your employees in safety procedures and scheduling fitness for duty examinations for each new hire. You will also need an additional examination before an employee returns to work after an accident. The examination evaluates whether the employee is up to the job, and confirms that he or she can meet all of the job’s physical requirements without risking injury to themselves or to others.
We have written about return cheaters in the past – those that we’ve caught before and return just to get caught again. However, we recently had our first threepeat! A gentleman came in on the 5th of the month and presented us with a specimen we would not accept, and he left the clinic.