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Hey y’all! I’m volunteering at a local doctors office and of course every day I am able to relate so many things I’ve learned in my classes to the practical aspects. I’m volunteering for a cardiologist and I can finally understand why physics is so important, because you can’t truly understand the heart without physics. Anyways I was helping a nurse with a venipuncture on a patient that had a past of having a hard time of getting enough blood. So the nurse was controlling the needle as I was exchanging the collection tubes. The the nurse said “Can you lower the tube a bit so we can get gravity on our side” and I couldn’t help but think isn’t it more pressure than gravity. Where this thought is coming from is we did an expirement in physics with a resonance tube and lowering the blood collection tubes reminded me of raising/lowering the water reservoir on a resonance tube. I’m just trying to piece everything together, but I just can’t figure it out. Thank you guys for the help!
