Sentences with phrase «doctors and patients make»

The answer needs to be through smarter laws, through consistent laws, through laws that let doctors and patients make informed decisions about this, and not laws that threaten prosecution or criminalization for something that may be a medical issue and a medical decision.

Such scoring systems could be developed into an additional tool to help doctors and patients make informed decisions about the course of treatment.

«Signs of drug resistance can be identified which can help doctors and patients make informed decisions about treatment,» Cebon says.

The test also predicts risk for having an aggressive tumor, helping doctors and patients make decisions about whether to wait and monitor test levels or pursue immediate biopsy.

Not exact matches

And the company hopes the system can drastically improve the «diagnostic journeys» that those with rare diseases typically face: Such patients, on average, are seen by seven doctors before the correct diagnosis is made.

That it would be really difficult to get a critical share of doctors and patients to use us fast enough to make this a viable business.

Now introduce smartphone technology and applications that let the information exchange, virtual examination, and imaging happen in multiple directions — between patient and physician and hospital — and you've made a doctor's visit smarter, faster, and cheaper.

The Internet has made a significant impact on healthcare by giving patients access to their medical records and letting doctors and hospitals use that information to do a better job.

London - based Babylon Health, which has raised a total of $ 85 million, started as a telemedicine company, enabling doctors to make diagnoses via video and allowing patients to rate the quality of each interaction.

Even doctors use checklists with items like «wash your hands» and «double - check that you're not leaving surgical tools inside the patient» to make sure they don't forget anything.

At Inova, that kind of speed has been enabling doctors to quickly diagnose genetic diseases in newborns, and makes it easier for pharmacists to prescribe medications that match a patient's genetic makeup.

Mobile apps, like UpToDate and Isabel, are also making it possible to decrease the amount of time it takes a doctor to give a patient a sound diagnosis.

Rather than replace the radiologist altogether, DiSanzo said Watson would make the doctor's job easier by narrowing down a series of X-ray or CT images to the most relevant scans, and combining that with other patient records to «make your definitive diagnosis quicker, faster.»

The data gathered by the online portal could also be used by doctors to make recommendations regarding a patient's physical activity, and kid - friendly versions of the device could be created for children and teens with certain medical conditions.

When a doctor meets with a patient, they ask thoughtful questions and seek to fully understand the problem before making a diagnosis.

In China's health system, low salaries and skimpy budgets drive doctors, nurses and administrators to make ends meet by accepting money from patients, drug suppliers and others.

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.

The Ninth Circuit's case grew out of a complaint filed by four doctors and three terminally ill patients against a Washington State statute making it a crime to knowingly cause or aid an attempted suicide.

With the doctor's encouragement and the patient's agreement, the AA's make frequent visits, surrounding the hospitalized alcoholic with acceptance and offering him the AA recovery program.

Whereas BAIPA protects the right to life of the child who survives an abortion, the Pennsylvania act protects the child who could survive an abortion, making it criminal in most cases to abort the child and, where an abortion is permissible within narrow limits, requiring doctors to treat the child as a second patient who should be brought into the world alive and unharmed if possible.

There would otherwise be too much variation in decision making, discrepancies between doctor and patient values, and the possibility of physician bias.

Before any decision could be made two doctors would have to confirm the patient was terminally ill and had reached the decision without any pressure from friends of family.

Make the identical mistake as a treating doctor for the same patient, and prepare to meet your lawyer!

The doctor / patient makes the call and the insurance pays.

A doctor of naturopathic medicine and a chiropractor, Dr. King found that his patients with high cholesterol who were not being aided by the drugs for that condition were helped by making bison their primary red meat source.

When the Make - A-Wish Foundation came calling and asked Lucas for his wish, he requested a food truck to feed the doctors and nurses who cared for him along with the pediatric cancer patients that had become like family.

Mr Justice Hickinbottom said, «In addition to the usual obligations of a doctor to a patient, the FA protocol placed an obligation upon them to ensure that the claimant and his parents were made aware of any risk that the claimant faced.

Doctors won't even confirm you are pregnant until you come into their office - if they won't even accept that basic piece of information without examining a patient, how can they boldly and arrogantly make the statement that the safest setting for mothers and babies is (always) in a hospital?

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

In a new study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility, researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence patients and their doctors to make treatment choices that too frequently result in multiple births.

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.

As for his patients who would choose a hospital delivery, they were well - known for making things «difficult» for hospital staff: refusing to be «shaved», have enemas, (both still standard procedures in 1981) and wanting to do unthinkable things like get up and walk around during labor instead of lying (preferably) on their backs or sides strapped to a fetal monitor - all with the encouragement and blessing of their doctor.

So there are only a couple of solutions: 1) people stop filing so many lawsuits, or 2) doctors protect themselves and make SURE their patients are as safe as possible.

It doesn't make sense that the doctor will see a patient who is seeking the care of a CPM (who can only attend homebirths) and tell the patient he couldn't care for her if she was planning a home birth.

It's not often that a laboring mom has a doctor who is patient and willing to wait while baby makes its way out.

But autonomy doesn't mean doctors should do whatever the patient wants; it means doctors should allow patients to make treatment decisions after considering the risks, benefits, and doctor's recommendations.

Our more than 30 board - certified anesthesiologists work with doctors throughout Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children to make every patient's hospital stay safer and more comfortable.

Before going a step further, make sure all the doctors you're considering are taking on new patients and will accept your health insurance.

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.»

«Under the proposed changes it will be easier for an unskilled Australian bar worker to stay in the UK for two years than a skilled Sudanese Doctor who wants to come to Britain to receive medical training that saves lives, and make a contribution to providing high quality services to patients in the UK.»

Cuomo's budget plan scraps rigorous state audits of hospitals that help make sure resident doctor - interns aren't severely overworked and exhausted on the job — and critics worry that could imperil patient safety.

He's announced that flu cases are spiking, and urged people to get flu shots, and he signed a bill into law that makes it easier for cancer patients who are misdiagnosed to sue their doctors.

They plan to make several return trips to see if they can improve the health care system, which is losing money, doctors and patients in a vicious cycle that threatens to undermine one - fifth of the economy.

«The government's intentions, to protect patients» interests, to make the clinical case for service change and to ensure doctors and nurses take the lead in the decision making process, are sound.

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.

To date, about 150 doctors are registered to prescribe the drug to patients with a strict list of debilitating conditions, and only 51 patients statewide are currently registered to purchase the nonsmokable forms of the drug that are being made available.

In cases where a patient is suffering incurably, is permanently incapacitated, and has made a clear and informed decision to end their life but is unable to do so independently, the law should allow a doctor to intervene.

In the end the doctors are actually making less then with self pay (so I am told), and have to go through more hassle to get it, meanwhile the patients are generally paying more.

«It's more important that legislation like ours that just passed that doctors have the ability and the opportunity without risk of someone looking over their shoulder to make the best decisions possible for their patients,» says Barrett.

A new law in Mississippi has made it legal for doctors and nurses to refuse care to certain patients on religious grounds.