Sentences with phrase «better conversations with their doctor»

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Ideally, patients, nurses, and doctors should be able to have an open conversation about treatment, with the goal of landing on the best health outcome possible.

Also if a true doctor struck up a conversation with me he'd probably be able to see through my claim as well.

We had conversations with them, the doctors cleared him, and the amazing thing was, he practiced that week as well as any time that year.

Weigh the risks and have an open conversation with your doctor or provider to determine what is best for mom and the unborn baby.

If you start contracting every 4 - 5 min for more than an hour and they are getting more intense, you can barely have a conversation then that's a good sign of labor.speak with your doctors if you're unsure you should go to the hospital or not.

Be sure to have a conversation with your doctor, your baby's pediatrician, and even a lactation consultant so you have a full idea of your best treatment options and plans.

Although the balance of the evidence indicates that bariatric surgery is safe and effective for the typical patient with severe obesity, Dr. Arterburn said, individual patients and their doctors need to have meaningful shared decision making conversations about the long - term benefits, risks, and uncertainties of bariatric surgery so they can each choose the best treatments for them.

Instead, let Valentine's Day be a good reminder to have this conversation with your doctor, especially if you feel that a medication may be to blame.

I conjecture that three changes in the way in which the climate problem is presented by the experts to the general public would make the conversation go better: acknowledge that climate constraints are unwelcome (thereby establishing empathy with general audiences, as a doctor does when conveying bad news), present the science as unfinished (thereby taking away the surprise factor that accompanies every new wrinkle — cf. the cosmic ray stories of a couple of weeks ago), and admit that no solution is wonderful (something hard for much of our community, which loves some strategy and hates at least one of the others).

Sam Glover: There are so many people who... A good friend of mine is a doctor, and he works with HIV patients and — this is years ago now — but we were having a conversation about how one of his biggest challenges is not keeping people alive because HIV isn't a death sentence anymore, it's getting people to take their medicine.