Problem: Article: This method works best for dogs with very long or thick coats, such as Siberian Huskies, whose double coats take a very long time to dry using the other methods. However, a blow dryer should only be used on a dog who is not afraid of the dryer.
Summary: Use a hair dryer.

Problem: Article: Learning the classifications of conditions can help you keep all of the information associated with that condition together. Using the mnemonic device VITAMIN C, D can help you classify conditions and diseases before you break them down. Each of the letters in "VITAMIN C, D" stands for a different disease classification: Vascular, Infectious, Traumatic, Autoimmune, Metabolic, Iatrogenic/Idiopathic, Neoplastic, Congenital, and Degenerative. For every condition or disease you study, make sure you can come up with a detailed definition. Learn exactly what the term means, and how it fits in with other things that you've studied. Because the study of pathology is the study of diseases and their causes, knowing the exact definition of a condition is essential for a proper diagnosis. In your pathology notebook, create a section for each condition. At the beginning of each section, write down the definition of the condition. The how and why of any condition is called pathogenesis basically how the condition develops. Once you know the definition of a particular condition, focus on learning the why the causes of the condition and the how. Learn how these causes turn into this particular condition, rather than another. In your notebook, organize a section for the pathogenesis of each condition under the condition's definition. How exactly you set this section will vary depending on what works best for you. You could list the causes, and under each cause why that cause turns into that particular condition. Or you can create a concept map with boxes and arrows connecting each concept to its pathogenesis. For each condition you study, the morphology the changing of cells and tissue will be different. So if you know how a particular condition changes cells and tissue, you have a better shot at being able to recognize a condition. The morphology should be listed after the definition and pathogenesis of the condition you're studying. In this case, it might be useful to draw pictures or, if you're not a great artist, copy and print out images from your textbook that show the morphology. The clinical manifestations of a condition are just the symptoms associated with that condition. There can be a lot of overlap in symptoms, meaning different conditions can have the same clinical manifestations. So learning the clinical manifestations is just one part of learning about individual conditions. Writing down information is 1 way to begin memorizing it. You can also make flash cards with the clinical manifestations of the condition you're studying. Keep those flashcards in your notebook in the section dedicated to that condition. Not every patient you see will be at the same exact point in the development of individual conditions. It's therefore important to learn the complications that might develop if any condition is left untreated. It might look very different after 6 months of no treatment than it does after 1. In your notebook, create a timeline, starting at the point when the condition would first develop and listing the complications at the start. Then draw lines on your timeline for when the complications may change and list the timing and complications.
Summary: Classify each condition. Define the condition. Figure out the how and why of the condition you're studying. Learn the morphology of each condition. Memorize the clinical manifestations of each condition. Learn the complications of each condition.

Problem: Article: Keep a tissue or a thick handkerchief with you at all times. A tissue is portable and disposable, but a handkerchief will do a better job of muffling the sound. If you have no other choice, bury your nose into your shoulder, your arm, or the crook of your elbow. Any fabric or solid body part will help keep your sneeze quiet. Leave your mouth slightly open so that you don't build up too much pressure in your sinuses. Done correctly, this move should lessen the intensity of your sneeze. If you hold your breath at the same time, you might even be able to stop the sneeze from coming. Make sure to get the timing just right. By mixing up the reflex to sneeze with the reflex to cough, you might lessen the sound and severity of each noise.
Summary: Sneeze into something. Clench your teeth and jaw to suppress the sound. Cough as you sneeze.

Problem: Article: If the patient has done any of these things, wait to take the temperature for 10 minutes. Place the thermometer under the tongue to take an oral temperature only if the patient is at least 5 years old, conscious, lucid, able to breathe through the nose, and doesn't have a facial injury that would make it difficult to hold the thermometer under the tongue. Use a digital thermometer, not a glass thermometer. If the glass breaks, your or the patient may be cut, and if the thermometer contains mercury you or the patient may come in contact with it. Mercury is toxic. Use a thermometer strip on the forehead or put the thermometer under the patient's arm (axillary temperature) if you can't take an oral temperature. Thermometer strips and axillary temperatures are less accurate than other methods of taking a temperature. If you use a temperature strip, wait for the time specified in the instructions. Normal temperature is somewhere around 98 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius).
Summary:
Ask if the patient ate or drank something hot or cold, smoked, chewed gum or did any strenuous activity within the last 10 minutes. Take the patient's temperature. Wait until the digital thermometer beeps to read the display. Write down the patient's temperature, where on the body it was taken, and the time.