Medical direction has asked you to remove a tick from behind the left ear of a 5-year-old girl. You would:
A) grab the tick close to its head and pull directly outward.
B) grasp the tick with tweezers and gently twist it from the skin.
C) scrape it from the skin using a credit card or other similar object.
D) refuse to remove the tick given its location and age of patient.
A
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A) arteriosclerosis. B) atherosclerosis. C) both A and B. D) neither A nor B.
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