[Brian Pacheco]

Agree!

[Brian Pacheco]

Great explanation!

[Brian Pacheco]

Arteries and veins are both types of blood vessels, but they have very different structures and functions making them have different responsibilities in the body. An arteries job is to carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart through the body. An artery has thick elastic like blood vessels that live deep under the skin. Arteries carry blood away from the heart, they have high pressure and have no valves. While veins on the other hand bring back oxygen-poor blood to the heart. A veins main job is to bring back all the deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart to be deoxygenated and distributed through the arteries again. Veins carry blood towards the heart, are low pressure unlike arteries and do have valves unlike arteries, helping the blood move in the right direction and stopping the blood from backflow.

The heart is a muscle organ with four chambers, each one playing important roles in relation to the heart. The four chambers are the right ventricle, left ventricle. right atrium, left atrium. The four chambers of the heart are very essential because they keep oxygenated and deoxygenated blood separate, allowing adequate circulation between the lungs and the rest of the body. Without the four different chambers of the heart it wouldn’t be able to function correctly. Blood would have no direction on which way to flow and our organs would then be deprived of Oxygen.

[Brian Pacheco]

Love Mnemonics, find them so helpful!

[Brian Pacheco]

Agree, I couldn’t see most of it either.

[Brian Pacheco]

I agree, remembering is definitely key to the profession.

[Brian Pacheco]

Great explanation!

[Brian Pacheco]

Hi Alejandra, I agree, chronic sleep will definitely affect mental retention.

[Brian Pacheco]

Some techniques to good mental retention from the video:
-Visualization
-Note taking
-Association
-Using images/Imagery/Imagination
-Vocabulary techniques
-Backwards drill (Reverse the Order)
-Idea Mapping

I think these are all great ideas and found this video very helpful!

[Brian Pacheco]

Some things that could inhibit good mental retention are poor diet including foods high in saturated fats. When we eat foods high in saturated fats including whole milk, butter and ice cream we increase of our risk of Dementia which then in turn would inhibit good mental retention, not being able to focus or remember information. Lack of proper sleep and not enough exercise can inhibit good mental retention as well. Physical exercise provides increased oxygen to the brain and then reduces risk for disorders such as diabetes and heart disease. Increased stress can inhibit good mental retention as well, chronic stress can destroy brain cells making it unable to retrieve old memories and form new ones.

I feel good mental retention is important to becoming a successful interpreter because you need to be able to remember what someone is saying in real time to be able to accurately interpret what people are saying. I feel if you build and work on better mental retention it helps you to maintain thoroughness and allows you to provide the most detail you can. Good mental retention is key with interpreting because you need to be able to remember and reproduce what people are saying in order to accurately interpret it. Without mental retention we would not be able to do our job as an interpreter. Mental retention also allows you to build on knowledge, widening our vocabularies and knowledge in different areas.

[Brian Pacheco]

Great explanation!

[Brian Pacheco]

Completely agree with your post!

[Brian Pacheco]

It would be very helpful as a Medical Interpreter to know and understand the suffixes and prefixes used in medical terminology for many reasons. Knowing these may allow you as the interpreter to understand the word better and therefore be able to interpret more accurately and may also provide better communication between you and the patient or provider as you will be able to more thoroughly explain what you are saying. Prefixes (the root or core of the word’s meaning) are word parts that appear at the beginning of medical terms. This is helpful because prefixes provide additional information about the root word, such as its location, number, time, or status. Whereas suffixes are word parts added to the end of medical terms to modify their meaning, usually turning the words into a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech.

[Brian Pacheco]

Yes, I seen that too about the Department of Public Health, I didn’t know that!

[Brian Pacheco]

Totally agree on your view on Executive Order 14224!

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