Sentences with phrase «doctors and patients about»

Metal - on - metal hip implants are at the center of thousands of lawsuits that allege hip manufacturers failed to warn doctors and patients about their dangers.

Similarly, in their review of the drug, FDA officials emphasized that Truvada, if approved, should be accompanied by a program aimed at educating doctors and their patients about the importance of adherence and maintaining existing safeguards.

Researchers analyzed more than 500 online discussions between doctors and patients about e-cigarettes.

Schneiderman says the investigation will examine whether manufacturers misled doctors and patients about the addictive power of the drugs.

«Our subpoenas and letters seek to uncover whether or not there was deception involved, if manufacturers misled doctors and patients about the efficacy and addictive power of these drugs.»

Not exact matches

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

(New York's regulations, for example, required me as a first - time patient to have about a 30 - second video call with the doctor who treated me before we hung up and continued via text.)

Viewers may be inspired to become doctors by watching their favourite television characters, or develop ideas about how doctors should behave and present themselves to patients.

I'm confident that when you and I speak again in the next 12 to 18 months that this discussion about why do I have to keep filling out the same patient form every time I go to the doctor's office on a clipboard will be gone.

And doctors, who have little info about how patients pay for drugs, often prescribe what is seen as the latest and greatest, even if the extra benefit is smaAnd doctors, who have little info about how patients pay for drugs, often prescribe what is seen as the latest and greatest, even if the extra benefit is smaand greatest, even if the extra benefit is small.

It's much more akin to a WebMD, where there's all this information about health care, and the patient and the patient's family can read it, but then they still go to the doctor and the doctor helps them interpret that information.

Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

So while they've usually proven effective (at least in other nations), there's a chance doctors and patients could be reticent about turning away from established brand names like Remicade.

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.

To help circumvent the shortage, the FDA enacted new provisions in 2012 that require drug makers to give the agency earlier notice about potential shortages in order to alert patients and doctors so they can seek alternative treatments.

The scientists are advising doctors to ask patients about their social media use and encourage them to reduce it if it seems linked to social isolation.

Noting that an important goal of the Affordable Care Act is enrolling the uninsured in insurance plans — which will theoretically put more money in doctors» pockets — Jackson said, «As major stakeholders and advocates in this effort, physicians should be educated about how these changes will impact them, their patients and their prospective patients.»

In exchange, Express (NYSE: EXPR) Scripts will simplify the process for doctors to prescribe Praluent, seek to lower co - pays for patients and exclude the competing drug from Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) from its largest plan, which covers about 25 million members.

Whitecoat, the controversial health insurer - backed website that has been labelled the «Trip Advisor» of the sector, will be expanded to include patient reviews about the success of procedures performed by doctors, surgeons and other health professionals.

I suppose talking to the dying about their families is all well and good if the dying are all confirmed Christians, but I believe it was C.S. Lewis who articulately bemoaned the friends and doctors who tell a dying patient the classic «everything is going to be all right» when from a Biblical viewpoint, everything will not be all right.

a letter from a doctor to the president about his treatment of a «Poor» person... Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

I understand that a false diagnosis and an inaccurate prescription may do more harm to the patient, but a doctor who does not love the patient or care about the patient and genuinely desire that they get well, will likely not accurately diagnose the sickness or prescribe a medicine.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

By 1973, with the sexual revolution well underway, licensed doctors were increasingly performing elective abortions for their patients, but they were worried about criminal and civil liability.

Please enlighten me as to the 16 you are talking about - And more importantly how is it any of the employer's business what prescriptions a doctor writes for a female patient?

For the first trial, half of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by electronic prompts to speak to the patients about breastfeeding during office visits.

Doctor's don't give a scheisse about patients and certainly not women.

It's about basic respect for laboring women as people and patients, not inanimate objects who should submit cheerfully to any pain (such as the chronic pain associated with my C - section scar) and any indignity at the hands of doctors who threaten and abuse their patients.

«I've begun hearing about doctors around the country who are medicating their patients with nature in order to prevent or treat health problems ranging from heart disease to attention deficit disorder,» says Daphne Miller, MD, family physician and associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

Washington, DC — A new committee opinion from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) addresses the controversy of elective cesarean delivery, using it as an example of how doctors can ethically help patients make decisions about surgical treatment when there is a lack of firm evidence for or against such surgery.

Because of ALL the doctor's appointments, having a surgery herself, another few days of in - patient testing, and other medical issues in the family, I didn't «officially» start EC until about 4 months old... but by 6 months the nursing staff at our local ER knew I was «that lady who's really tiny baby pees on the potty.»

Yes, I agree with you entirely, although if the patient has delusional beliefs about childbirth and didn't believe or understand the information her doctors provided she would not have capacity to refuse consent.

Patient - doctor consultation is vital, as is a patient's own knowledge, understanding and responsibility (e.g. researching your doctor's credentials and reading about your condPatient - doctor consultation is vital, as is a patient's own knowledge, understanding and responsibility (e.g. researching your doctor's credentials and reading about your condpatient's own knowledge, understanding and responsibility (e.g. researching your doctor's credentials and reading about your condition).

Having said that, great doctors welcome patients who are proactive about their lifestyle choices, and who seek more than «absence of disease»... who insist on vibrant health.

In the country's 250 birth centers, midwives tend to take far more time with patients than busy doctors do and the emphasis is on the whole woman — everything from consultations on what a woman should be eating during pregnancy to conversations about anxiety over delivery.

This type of person is never satisfied, is furthermore the sort most likely to leave negative evaluations at every venue they can find to do so, and they get the doctor behind schedule so that every other patient after High Maintenance Patient has something legitimate to complainpatient after High Maintenance Patient has something legitimate to complainPatient has something legitimate to complain about.

I believe most doctors want to do well by their patients, although I have seen, experienced, and read about enough instances of arrogance, indifference, ignorance, and even cruelty to have no illusions.

But imagine you're on a tight schedule to see X amount of patients a day (where X is a higher number than you'd like) and then you get one who insists on knowing allllll the details about everything, even when the details aren't necessary to understanding the course of action the doctor is recommending.

I'd love to know your thoughts (assuming you don't post and run) on WHY, if a disaster does happen at home, you run to the hospital to see the evil disease ridden doctor who obviously cares more about golf than patients.

The vast majority doctors care very much about the wishes of their patients, and will do everything possible to honor those wishes.

Doctor: I tell our patients that it is a major abdominal surgery, and it can take about two weeks to feel about 75 percent of what they normally feel, and it can take a full six to eight weeks for full recovery.

I breastfed my three boys, all up to 2 yrs old They are rarely ill, our doctor wonders whether we are still patients, don't understand when people talk about ear infections, gastric problems, wind, colic, reflux and amongst many 100's more things that breastfeeding helps to ommit.

Yes, this is just one state and not OB specific but, I was floored by these numbers given all the negative press you hear about doctors that dismiss patient concerns and have terrible bedside manner.

Speak to any doctor [about whether]... a patient... on the verge of kidney failure and his heart is so weak and has become so big and also has cancer... will be able to do one - tenth of the things that Nana Akufo - Adddo is doing.

And secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.&raqAnd secondly, if doctors are corrupted by making money, as they are in my experience, and doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.&raqand doctors who in theory have a professional ethic of putting the patient first, well for Christ's sake, businessmen are going to be infinitely more corrupted and will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.&raqand will be much more concerned about cutting corners and squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.&raqand squeezing as much money out of the system as possible without any deep, ethical concern for the outcome.»

This includes laws that force doctors to lie to their patients about there being a link between breast cancer and abortion, TRAP laws that impose unnecessary building regulations on abortion clinics, and the forcing of women to pay for funerals for foetal remains following an abortion.

«We strongly believe that the decision about the mode of administration of any medication should be left up to doctor and their patients,» he said.

Patient choice and control are at the heart of what we believe in and the NHS has been slow in giving patients real clout, despite the fact that many people with chronic conditions know as much about their health as their doctors do.

Laurence Buckman, chairman of the British Medical Association's GPs committee, said: «It is a fact that patients are annoyed when they can not see their normal doctor and I think this is more likely to make them complain about the care they receive.