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Chapter Nine: Regulation of Plasma Osmolality

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The Fire of Our Body's Asche

As a trainee, I adopted this formula that it's body weight multiplied by seven equals your insensible losses minus water of oxidation. As years have gone by and I am on the other side as an attending having to listen to a patient presented to me from a resident, you know, I just don't hear that anymore. And so there is this obligate water loss just through our skin. A liter and a half seems like a lot, but an hour, but I suspect if you're,. you know, what if it's 500 emails an hour? It also mazes me whenever we watch Lawrence of Arabia and see Peter O'Toole who walks in the Sahara for three days

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