Sentences with phrase «doctors work with patients»

Our doctors work with patients to help create an environment in their body where cancer is less likely to grow.

That's why our doctors work with patients to create tailor - made programs specifically for them, instead of providing a magic pill or one - size - fits - all solution.

Internal medicine specialists or general medicine doctors works with patients to treat and diagnosis adult health conditions.

Not exact matches

Sometimes a doctor would inject a patient with a phage and it would work, and sometimes it wouldn't.

Frustrated with her doctors and the manufacturer of her pacemaker, Moe has turned her life's work into finding out more on behalf of all patients.

Merck says it's working with doctors to acclimate them to the diagnostic, which could prevent wasteful spending on a costly drug which may not benefit all patients.

«We're more secure than any entity we work with,» says Gutman, noting that all private HealthTap communications between patients and doctors are encrypted.

Project EmpowerMD, a research collaboration with UPMC, aims to create an AI - powered system that can capture and integrate medical expertise at scale by listening and observing doctors doing their work as they meet their patients.

Case in point: For years I predicted that Oregon's assisted suicide law would not result in doctors and patients with long standing relationships working out what is best for end - of - life care.

I have a bachelor degree in social studies and worked for many years with people at group homes in Denmark and experienced everyday how focused the doctors were on trying to cure the patients with drugs.

As a practicing Naturopathic Doctor I have worked with hundreds of patients in my practice to help them successfully navigate through an elimination diet.

Their doctors and staff work closely with patients to provide them with personal care using the latest technology.

The fertility doctors at San Diego Fertility Center work closely with patients to map out a treatment plan that fits every future parent's goals, schedule, and values.

It sucks that they don't work for everyone and I guarantee you that every nurse and doctor who was working with your friend had a lot of sympathy for her because it is absolutely no fun to see your patient in pain and to not be able to give her what she wanted.

In addition, we work with a team of genetic doctors who can be helpful with genetic counseling in future family planning for the parents of our patients.

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.

I work with doctors everyday who feel they are not taking care of their children the way they desire to do so because they are trying to keep their patients healthy.

«You never felt like he was imposing his opinion either on his patients or on other doctors,» said Dr. Felix Krock, an internist who worked with Dr. Kennedy at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

«Since launching the program, the Department has worked closely with doctors, patients and registered organizations to gather information relevant to strengthening the program in anticipation of the required two - year report,» Zcuker said.

Lawsky he'll be working with the insurance industry in the coming weeks to craft a bill to close some of the loopholes, and require that insurance companies, doctors, and other health care providers disclose to patients in advance when a provider may fall out of their insurance policy network.

He also received $ 5.3 million from Weitz & Luxenberg, including $ 1.4 million salary for a no - show job and $ 3.9 million in referral fees for asbestos cases that he did not work on, scheming with prominent Manhattan doctor — who sources identified as Robert Taub — to push patients to the firm in exchange for research money, court documents say.

So if in the last generation the big medical advance was the doctor administering antibiotics, in the coming generation it will be patients working with doctors and NHS staff to improve our own health and manage our own conditions.

(GBAC), Northern Onondaga Volunteer Ambulance (NOVA), Western Area Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) and a doctor who works with WAVES evaluated the 23 patients.

The chair of the British Medical Association, Dr Mark Porter, said «The appointment of a new Health Secretary provides a fresh opportunity for doctors and government to work together to improve patient care and deal with the many challenges facing the NHS.»

F or medical doctors, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides an opportunity to spend time in developing countries and work intensively and directly with patients.

Crona began thinking about rank orders while working with biologist Miriam Barlow on the problem of antibiotic cycling, by which hospital doctors rotate different antibiotics to thwart patient infections.

The researchers caution that a more randomized and controlled clinical trial is needed before doctors can reliably use their cardiac imaging analysis routinely with patients, but if confirmed, they say the method should reduce ablation procedures unlikely to work, along with the procedures» substantial costs and complication risks.

Many patients I have worked with have told me, in retrospect, that the most important thing I did was to be the first doctor who said it was possible for them to get better.

He's also working on an avatar that trains doctors to communicate clearly and compassionately with patients being treated for life - threatening cancers.

But, he and others believe, the cell work is teaching the CF community something important: The drugs may interfere with each other, packing a less powerful punch than doctors and patients would like to see.

This work is an early glimpse at medical robots that doctors could navigate through a patient's body from the outside with a focused beam of light, Tang says.

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.

Even when using pioneer (or brand - name) drugs, doctors monitor patients on these types of medications until they find the precise dose that works with each person's physiology.

Paired with a mentor who aimed to give him a broad look at the intersection of health services research and medicine, Neiman worked on a paper about total knee replacement, a project surveying part of the FDA's drug approval process, and another study about shared decision - making between patients and doctors.

Seek a physician who has experience diagnosing dementia and who works with dementia patients — your primary care doctor, a geriatrician, geriatric psychologist or a neurologist, Miller says.

Doctors often prescribe these patients medications often used in patients with mental health disorders, despite little hard evidence that they work well and despite the risks they can pose — including hastening death.

«Many patients try to step down on their own but we encourage patients to work with their doctors before doing so.»

Here is how it works: With each therapy or treatment modification, doctor and patient participate in a mini clinical trial.

«I have enormous respect for patients» autonomy and understanding of their own bodies, and to some extent doctors are working with patients in a collaboration,» she says.

As well as a flood of patients, the only working Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone has to deal with rumours of organ harvesting, says doctor Anja Wolz

Doctors are not typically trained or have not traditionally been reimbursed by Medicare for taking extra time to work with patients and families to ensure that they are getting what they need out of their health care experience.

The doctor and clinical researcher at the Karolinska Institute was working with a high - profile surgeon who was performing a potentially life - saving procedure on patients, but Grinnemo saw that the patients weren't doing very well.

But that optimism, plus the availability of FDA - approved drugs with an HDAC inhibitory effect, has also prompted many families to find doctors who will prescribe these drugs, without knowing whether they work, or at what doses, or in which subset of patients.

The deCODE team, working with doctors and researchers at Iceland's National University Hospital and the Icelandic Heart Association, identified the PDE4D gene and significant haplotypes by analyzing detailed genotypic data from some 1800 participants in its stroke program, both patients and unaffected relatives, from across Iceland.

To try to save patients with the complication, doctors have tried a variety of methods, but there hasn't been much evidence about whether they work.

Doctors who work with individuals at risk of developing dementia have long suspected that patients who do not realize they experience memory problems are at greater risk of seeing their condition worsen in a short time frame, a suspicion that now has been confirmed by a team of McGill University clinician scientists.

Prasad, Lenzer, and Newman don't suggest doing away with cancer screening — instead, they suggest doctors and their patients work together to decide whether screening is appropriate.

Dr. Hackam seeks to work with industry partners, as well as nurses, doctors and families of patients around the country, in order to develop novel regimens to safely and effectively deliver appropriate nutrition to the most vulnerable infants, who are at risk for the development of intestinal disease.

«Increasingly, doctors are learning to work with patients to tailor a treatment plan that is best for the individual — including exploring trials.»

«There are many good, responsible weight - loss doctors who are trained in a relevant field and who work with patients to help them make long - term changes,» says Robert Kushner, MD, clinical director of the Northwestern Comprehensive Center on Obesity in Chicago.