Sentences with phrase «doctors treating people»

Doctors treating people with serious wounds might miss diagnosing a brain injury, and hospitals do not always code for every presenting condition.

Knowing a bullet's path in the body could help doctors treat people with gunshot wounds in the field

Not exact matches

If doctors treat whatever is triggering the condition, many people with the disease can go on to lead fairly normal, full lives.

And you, with your policies of doctor's notes, not allowing people to go home, treating people who take sick days as slackers, and coming into work when you're sick yourself are making it much, much worse.

People don't report hardly any cases of food - poisoning because most doctors and clinics refuse to treat it or even show any signs of giving a rat's ass about food poisoning.

The fact that doctors are free to prescribe lethally for people with illnesses outside their areas of medical specialization — and to do so secure in the knowledge that they are legally less accountable than if they were treating the same patient — demonstrates the folly of legalizing doctor - prescribed death.

Two thirds of the people who came to these homes hoped to find a doctor to treat them, while the other third received no treatment and lay dying without appropriate care.

Yes, that is truth — but as a patient for the first time last year I can tell you that it was totally disheartening to learn that most doctors now treat their patients as - customers - apparently they forget that people go to them because they are suffering...

Some people find that taking medication to treat constipation, diarrhoea or headaches can ease symptoms, but speak to your doctor about this first.

And even before there's a treatment, early diagnosis would allow doctors to keep people from exacerbating the situation (like shutting down Franzen) and gives them an early start on treating the symptoms even if they can't directly treat the cte.

I know a fat person who went to the doctor for a sore throat and left with a prescription to get more exercise instead of one for an actual antibiotic to treat her strep throat (which she got instead from a more helpful urgent care clinic).

I am attempting a VBAC with my current pregnancy, but have accepted the possibility of another C - section with another doctor, in another practice, in an environment where I am treated like a person and not a walking womb.

Would a doctor who said, «Well, yes, Hodgkin lymphoma is 100 % fatal without treatment and 90 + % survivable with treatment but I'm neutral on the issue of whether people should be treated or not» inspire confidence in that practitioner?

People with food allergies should become knowledgeable about allergies and how they are treated, and should work with their doctors.

Now the Home Office wants to ban drugs that doctors already value enough for the NHS to spend # 200 million per year on to treat Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression and insomnia - just because a few people might use them to get high.

The mass hysteria over Ebola erupted when a doctor who had been treating people infected with the disease overseas contracted the virus himself.

The two sides agreed on doctors who treat workers being reimbursed at 140 percent of Medicaid (the Republicans had hoped to lower this to 125 percent, but the Democrats refused), a 10 percent cap on lawyers fees and strong language to prevent people from getting cash both through this bill and the recent 9/11 lawsuit settlement.

Clare Gerada, the Chair of the Council of the Royal College of GPs, warned it was «unsafe» for doctors to keep treating the numbers of people they are given to see in a day.

With my new legislation, we will be able to help patients in need become certified more easily, ensure that more of those suffering are eligible to become certified, allow each doctor to treat their patients as they see fit, and make this necessary medicine accessible to more people throughout the state.»

One day after New York officials announced a Doctors Without Borders physician had tested positive for Ebola, another person who treated patients in West Africa developed a fever and was put in isolation at a northern New Jersey hospital.

The conversation dredged up everything from the lack of front - line doctors, nurses and therapists to treat addiction, the lack of long - term treatment beds, and the need to better market recovery services, to the simple fact that more potent drugs are hitting the streets and killing people before anyone has time to save them.

However, knowing someone's long - term suicide risk may have important implications for how a doctor chooses to treat that person, says Jan Fawcett of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

«Many people who experience headaches during sexual activity are too embarrassed to tell their physicians, and doctors often don't ask,» said Dr. Jose Biller, who has treated dozens of patients for headaches associated with sexual activity (HAS).

Update: On 10 May French health authorities announced that three people in France were suspected to have caught the MERS virus from a man who returned from Dubai with the infection: a doctor and a nurse in two hospitals where he was treated, and a patient in a neighbouring bed.

Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective in people battling both depression and a chronic medical disease, raising a critical question of whether doctors should enact widespread changes in how they treat millions of depressed Americans.

Dr David Berger at Broome Hospital in Western Australia, argues that however compassionate their intentions, «doctors who treat people who have been tortured and then acquiesce in the continuation of torture themselves are supporting torture.»

He worries that doctors are detecting problems too early, convincing healthy people they are sick, and treating them too aggressively.

Says Danny, «I think the measure of a doctor is whether he brings peace, goodness, and ease to the people he treats.»

And restrictions on what patients are admitted to trials (as Fuller and Flores noted) make the test groups very unlike the people doctors actually treat.

Growing mini tumours in the lab from a patient's own cells could help doctors discover the best way to treat each person, homing in on the right drugs to use

Commonly used to treat acne, minocycline was easy enough to get through any doctor who would prescribe it under the assumption it would help people with ALS, too.

Until then, doctors will likely continue to treat people with depression with an antidepressant, and if the first one fails, they try another version every few months, hoping to find one that relieves symptoms.

The work may help doctors better screen for — and treat — cancers in young people, and identify other family members who might be at risk.

Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they had diabetes could help prevent or delay the most severe complications associated with this chronic disease, which affects about thirty million people in the United States.

To help refugees settle, doctors in Europe will need to treat both the mental and physical problems commonly experienced by people fleeing war zones

To treat people with eating disorders, doctors might teach them to focus on their attractive features, the experimenters propose.

They found that for tranquillisers — including sleeping pills and drugs for treating anxiety and disorders such as schizophrenia — French doctors prescribe about four times as many DDDs per thousand people as their British and German counterparts, and two and a half times what doctors prescribed in Italy (see Graph).

The other major focus of the plan is to strengthen health teams and boost resources needed to diagnose cases, treat patients and trace other people they may have infected, a plea echoed this week by leading doctors from Sierra Leone writing in medical journal The Lancet.

In developing countries, doctors lack the basic anti-biotics and antifungal drugs they need to treat the infections that exploit the weakened immunity of people with HIV.

People will learn about their personal disease risks, helping their doctors and them prevent or treat these illnesses.

The team hopes that the finding will eventually help doctors treat the lack of motivation seen in people with depression.

«It's similar to giving a doctor the ability to look at a person's whole body and treat an illness, not just its symptoms.»

The University of New Mexico's (UNM's) Family and Community Medicine Department is working to educate future doctors to take a hard look in the mirror and see how their perspectives on people and cultures influence how they treat patients (see page 6).

As more resources become available for treating and managing HD symptoms, it would be helpful for doctors and patients to have a sense of whether a person's symptoms are expected to worsen slowly or quickly.

Doctors generally do not treat disease by altering genes in people or changing how they work.

Ever since this unbalanced piece of information went online back in 2007, later supported by a few doctors on some talk show, cancer patients and overly anxious people around the globe treat sugar like it's the meanest killer known to man.

Lane first spoke to doctors about nausea and stomach pain in January, People reported, and was given laxatives to treat what was thought to be an intestinal blockage.

When a person has hypocalcemia, a doctor may recommend calcium and vitamin D supplements, and will also work to treat the underlying condition causing it.

MONDAY, December 13 (Health.com)-- Doctors are increasingly turning to Oxycontin and similar painkillers to treat arthritis and other conditions in older people, but the drugs may not be as safe as once thought.

TIA can be a sign that something bigger is coming (about a third of people who experience a warning stroke will go on to have an acute stroke), so doctors will recommend lifestyle changes, such as a healthier diet, exercise, and cutting out alcohol and cigarettes in addition to treating risk factors like high blood pressure in an effort to prevent a more serious stroke.