Sentences with phrase «family members of patients who»

Family members of patients who have died as a result of taking Digitek may be able to file suit for negligent death.

As a patient or as the family member of a patient who was injured during surgery due to being improperly monitored, it is very natural to feel confusion and anger.

This week the Supreme Court of Canada released the decision in Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, involving a dispute between physicians and the family members of a patient who was on life support.

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Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

I think most of our patients would reach the stage of acceptance if it were not for the members of the helping professions, especially the physicians, who can not accept the death of a patient... the second and quantitatively more frequent problem is the immediate family which «hangs on» and can not «let go.»

Many of us in the Legislature know family members, friends or neighbors who have been treated at the VA and were shocked to learn that more than 700 patients were potentially exposed to life - threatening viruses.

Shore is a Ph.D. scientist, and yet she and her lab members know most of the patients and families who come to Penn to see orthopedist Frederick Kaplan, one of the few clinicians who specializes in the diseases.

They contain the names, ages, addresses, family members, and symptoms of the patients who visited him and even the time of day at which he saw them.

While there were no significant differences in the responses of residents based on how far along they were in their training, the researchers were surprised to discover some significant differences among supervising physicians, with senior attendings being more likely than junior attendings — who could be fellows or attendings in practice less than five years — to prefer immediate notification for situations including patient falls, new or worsening pain, an angry parent or family member, or the need for restraints.

A total of 848 physicians reported on 1,631 women they knew who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, 771 of whom were patients, 381 family members and 474 other social network members.

The registry contains information about more than 18,000 people including LQTS patients and their affected and unaffected family members, who provide a nearly ideal group of controls.

The same mutation was present in all members of the family who had Tourette but was absent in thousands of DNA samples from control subjects, who included unrelated people with similar ethnic backgrounds as well as a group of 720 Tourette patients, the researchers report today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The McNeills have numerous friends and family members who have been patients at UNC Lineberger, and everyone has been impressed by the superb quality of care.

That was what happened with Marge Benham - Hutchins, 61, of San Antonio, Texas, a patient and family advisory council member at Beyond Celiac who was diagnosed in her early 50s.

«I tell people so that they may understand why I may decline invitations for restaurants or functions where it may be impossible for me to eat,» says Shannon Myers, 53, of Scottsdale, Arizona, who was diagnosed with celiac when she was 50, and is also a patient and family advisory council member at Beyond Celiac.

Now it's like, «Oh, you start your functional medicine practice on a Saturday morning and you see a few patients here and there, you see family members who you're just learning and now they're getting better and then suddenly you renegotiate your thing with the hospital so instead of doing five 8 - hour days you're doing four 10 - hour days, and now you're practicing on Fridays.

The day - to - day workings of hospital dwellers — doctors, nurses, patients and family members — who have to make incredibly difficult end - of - life decisions might seem like a parody of documentary short nominations, but it is an incredibly powerful and sensitive portrait of people in incredibly tough circumstances.

Get your normal life back, get control over your time, and live stress free!For family members of patients with bipolar disorder or others who support these patients, and who have almost given up on having a normal life because of the suffocating demands of coping and dealing with a loved one with bipolar disorder... Unlike other books on bipolar disorder that speak to the person with the diagnosis, this book speaks directly to you and the unique problems you face as a supporter.

Patients with thunderstorm phobia who trigger when the sky darkens may show signs of distress like panting, pacing, urination, defecation, whining, trying to get close to family members, or hiding.»

Of the 769 plaintiffs, most are former patients, but 94 are surviving family members who filed wrongful death cases.

The patient was kept alive through life support, and the physicians wanted to stop this care over and above the objections of the patient's family members, who expressed the patient's prior expressed intention to be kept alive.

The patient was kept alive through life support, and the physicians wanted to stop this care over and above the objections of the patient's family members, who expressed the patient's prior expressed intention... [more]

People who regularly work in patient - facing roles must provide regular assessments, communicate with the patient and family members to ensure needs and wishes are being met, and make practical decisions regarding plans for end - of - life care.

Not only are we happy to care for your whole family's smiles, our dentists are also a mother daughter team, who work hard to ensure every patient we treat feels like they are a member of our family.

The American Cancer Society defines a caregiver as a family member, friend, loved one or other support person who lends physical, emotional or other support to someone at any time during the cancer journey.2 Importantly, they are part of a triadic model of involvement together with the patient and healthcare professional and take on multiple roles, from involvement in treatment decision - making in cancer, to acting as conduits of information between the patient and the specialist and vice versa and supporting the patient's decisions.3

A therapist who can successfully treat sexual addiction needs to be very sensitive and conscious of how, and what, information is shared between the patient, a partner, and other family members.

More than 50 % of our patients are referrals from friends and family members who have worked with our counselors and therapists.

Wenitong recounted the story of a young male patient in his 20s who had experienced in a very short period the death of his mother, suicide of a close relative, and attempted suicide by another family member.