Sentences with phrase «doctors and patients feel»

He hopes the approach could be extended to help doctors and patients feel more confident about other 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.

It's customary there for doctors when they see evidence of terminal cancer in a person, not to tell them the truth but to tell them that everything is okay because they feel that it's better to make the patient feel good and not upset.

«And we're finding doctors who recommend adding bison to patients» diets because some researchers feel it helps prevent cancer and heart probleAnd we're finding doctors who recommend adding bison to patients» diets because some researchers feel it helps prevent cancer and heart probleand heart problems.

Hospitals can feel cold and desensitized, doctors sometimes aren't receptive to a patient's... Read More

Play acting the doctor and patient relationship with dolls and action figures can reduce fear and make the child feel more secure.

Hospitals can feel cold and desensitized, doctors sometimes aren't receptive to a patient's wishes, and it's all very expensive.

I was one of those patients who just let the nurses and doctors do whatever they felt necessary.

Mostly those two paragraphs were my point in responding, that when doctors are ready to discuss care with their patients in a respectful, thorough manner, those patients will not feel like they're being treated like a bunch of morons and told to do it this way because they were told so or get out.

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.

Given that religion and spirituality are highly personal matters entwined with feelings about death, it's not surprising that doctors and nurses would avoid talking about these issues with patients.

To curb this, Llewelyn and colleagues urge doctors to drop the «complete the course» rhetoric and instead advise patients to stop when they feel better.

«We have found that even a very brief intervention of a video showing patients how to use saline nasal irrigation can improve symptoms, help people feel they do not need to see the doctor to manage the problem, and reduce the amount of over-the-counter medication they need to use,» said Dr. Paul Little, Primary Care and Population Sciences Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Back in the clinic, doctors are confronted with the issue of resources again, with many of them feeling that the chronic underfunding of the National Health Service gives them less and less time to spend with patients.

The provincial doctors now felt secure, and were happy to send some of their more puzzling patients (those who could manage the fee) to a consultant colleague for a second opinion.

It does makes me feel good to know that some pharmaceutical companies and doctors are working hard for the first time ever to collaborate with patient advocates to improve quality of care for those suffering from this debilitating disease.

Steve: You — in the cystic fibrosis section of the book — you profile a doctor who is explaining to one of his patients that the difference between feeling good 99.5 and 99.95 percent of the time on any given day, works out to completely different outcomes over the course of a year.

This May, however, Nissen felt compelled to alert doctors and patients to what he had found.

«The results for African - American patients are consistent with other studies that show doctors» implicit biases are not entirely hidden from patients, and more needs to be done to ensure that minority patients feel respected and welcome in health care settings,» Blair said.

The study found that although 86 percent of doctors did feel obliged to present all options in such cases, only 71 percent said they would feel obligated to refer the patient to a doctor who did not object to the requested procedure, and 63 percent believed it is ethically permissible for a doctor to describe his or her objection to the patient.

Eighteen percent felt no obligation to refer a patient to another doctor who did not object, and another 11 percent were undecided about their responsibility to refer.

All my doctors were very much in sync, marching toward the same goal, and, as a patient, their constant collaboration helps you feel confident,» Bokor said.

«MarginProbe ® is a major advance,» says Dr. Schnabel, because doctors and patients alike can feel more confident that only one surgery will be necessary.

Fact: «Both the doctor and the patient can reassess throughout, according to how the patient is feeling and her ability to withstand treatment,» says Williams.

But until then, I can only pray that more doctors read Chapter 3 in Mind Over Medicine and realize how much their behavior affects not just how patients feel, but their health outcomes.

Doctors don't expect patients to be able to tell the difference between a heart attack and a pulled chest muscle, she says, but a good rule of thumb is that if you can press on the wall of the chest and it feels even more painful, it's more likely to be a musculoskeletal injury than a problem with your ticker.

If something feels off during your appointment, don't ignore it When a doctor and patient sit together in a room, they are not simply trading facts.

One of the most important «take home» messages from reading all of the comments on the forum was that if you, as a patient, do not feel like your doctor is listening to you and / or taking you seriously, to stop seeing her and get a new doctor.

Many integrative and functional medicine doctors find that their patients feel their best at an upper limit of 1.5 - 2 mU / L.

I also regularly saw patients who had been prescribed sleeping pills or anti-anxiety drugs by another doctor, and who felt they had developed an unhealthy dependency on the drugs, or were woozy during the day, and wanted to get off them.

«I have never felt so confident that a doctor really cares about me as a patient and really understands the whole body!

It's too much of a coincidence... and I feel the word needs to get out, so Hashi patients and their doctors can get them the proper testing just in case.

Then we have the tests more frequently used by integrative doctors or naturopaths — these tend to look at the ratios of various hormones and neurotransmitters, in order to get a better idea of how a patient is feeling.

Looking at these numbers it is not surprising that the majority of patients weren't told about any alternatives to Levothyroxine therapy by their doctors and do not feel well on T4 - only thyroid treatment.

That's why I started Parsley Health — a new hybrid model of health care that combines the functional medicine approach that makes more sense for patients of all walks of life, with new care delivery models that both increase access to better medicine for more people, and that let doctors practice the kind of medicine that makes them feel good too.

Some patients simply prefer their doctor call - in a prescription for «make - me - feel - better - now» pills, and don't mind waiting one or two hours for a three minute appointment just to be handed another prescription because the «make - me - feel - better - now» pills are giving them side - effects and even more health problems.

FINALLY, a pizza dough that Maximized Living doctors and patients (and anyone else) can prepare, eat, and savour without feeling guilty or bloated, or both!

Bennet's allies are Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin), a retired team doctor who feels guilty about putting his patients back out on the field but not guilty enough to stop loving the game, and Dr. Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks), the county coroner who encourages Bennet to fight a system that owns a day of the week that once belonged to churches.

So when the doctors move to a newer facility, one with both patient privacy and piles of paperwork, they feel constricted in their work.

Kristen gets the feeling that the doctors and other patients are hiding something because she keeps having visions of a ghost coming after her.

Doctors diagnosing an illness use multiple assessments: the patient's medical history, lab tests, answers to questions about how the patient feels, and so on.

Determined to empower Lakshmi as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol, and soon doctor and patient have become close friends.

While our doctors» recommendations are customized to each individual pet and family, certain factors can help us determine a baseline for the preventative tests and treatments we feel best serve our clients and patients.

I took the course and passed certification because I feel it is essential for the doctor to know the best way to handle patients.

As a doctor she loves being there for her clients and patients and making them feel better.

For an ongoing or acute medical condition please feel free to call and speak with one of our doctors about the case prior to the patient's arrival to ensure the best service for your client.

Dr. Gill is the only doctor I trust with my pets, he is very kind and gentle and makes me feel like they are the most important patients.

Perhaps the most fundamental question for your interviewer is, «If I were a patient, and this person sitting before me were my doctor, how would I be feeling?»

While it is understandable that you may be in pain or not feel very well while you are healing from a surgery, treatment, or procedure that was successfully completed - a patient should not suffer from new ailments, conditions, and / or diseases as the result of a doctor's «care».

Some libertarian Congressmen felt this broad view of governmental privilege was especially bad because it went hand in hand with a restriction elsewhere in the draft, of the personal privileges like the husband - and - wife and doctor - and - patient privileges.