Sentences with phrase «many desperate patients»

Following the release of the results, his office was deluged with thousands of emails and phone calls from desperate patients and families.

Rumors of a possible cure sent thousands of desperate patients to Germany — and aroused the curiosity of an English country doctor (and aspiring writer) named Arthur Conan Doyle.

But «in the absence of full clinical testing, these bills will allow snake oil salesmen to sell unproven and scientifically dubious therapies to desperate patients.»

Efforts to water down regulation in this area may create opportunities for some individuals to prey on the hopes of desperate patients.»

But critics worry that such trials too often exploit desperate patients, offering them false hope of restored health while doing little or nothing to advance scientific research.

Are clinicians that offer experimental menopause reversal and three - parent babies providing desperate patients with a last stab at parenthood, or offering false hope?

The regulatory confusion and the snail's pace of science has left many desperate patients wrestling with excruciating situations.

Not exact matches

By acting patient and laying out the features in a way that doesn't seem desperate, you let the customer make the decision.

This chaotic process exposed a desperate need for a centralized data hub where descriptions of unidentified patients could be uploaded and accessed by all area hospitals in emergencies, Keesee said.

Jones has suggested that the Faustian bargain with Trump among evangelicals represented an application of desperate measures to a patient on life support.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

If patients are dying and are beyond reasonable hope of recovery, he believes that they should be told so, and not be deceived and tormented with desperate and probably useless medical procedures.

@ Damian... Damian, Damian, Damian... how many times did you make it to the hospital last week to care for those patients who are desperate for someone to listen to them and love them...

Fortunately, my doctor is close enough to me in age that he knows that there is not necessarily a cure for everything that ails the human body, and therefore knows when to leave a patient alone — no tubes, no desperate surgery, no heroic measures.

Wow finally goals from the new recruits.What a way to start a goal scoring campaign for the season.Diaby looked too good today, probably this guy is getting advice from our AFCB Terry it seems.His improvement is drastic in this game.Giroud looks more desperate to get his first, and someone has to tell this guy to be a little patient infront of goal.For me this guy will come really really good.

She walks faster toward her job in the Hospital Center, where her patients are poor and in desperate need of her skills.

AFTER he lost his first patient to cancer in 1891, William Coley was desperate to find an alternative treatment to offer next time, not just surgery and morphine.

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients have limited treatment options and a desperate need for effective therapies,» said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, M.D., lead author of the study.

A clinical faculty member in the autism clinic at Yale University, Gault was doing something she loved — working with children — but her inability to offer these desperate young patients and their families better interventions was beginning to gnaw at her.

«When patients get desperate, they have a capacity to suspend disbelief,» said Sean Morrison, a stem cell biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Rapidly swinging from extremes of joy and energy to sadness, fatigue, and confusion, bipolar disorder (BD) patients feel desperate and largely alone in the world.

The new law may please desperate cancer patients, but it's an unfortunate move, says biochemist Luiz Fernando Lima Reis, research director at Hospital Sírio - Libanês in São Paulo, where high - profile politicians have been treated for cancer, including Rousseff in 2009 and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2011.

But it could be a hard sell for patients desperate enough to undergo brain surgery.

Desperate, the science writer reluctantly turned to other CFS patients on the Internet who touted a theory she initially dismissed as crazy — that toxic mold was making her sick.

People with the rare inherited disease also have frequent nosebleeds, as many as seven a day, that can become so severe that patients require skin grafts in their noses or even more desperate measures to lead normal lives.

Now, patients with pancreatic cancer desperate for new treatment options will potentially benefit from a powerful new technology that uses genetic engineering to turn their own immune cells into «specially trained assassins» capable of finding, attacking, and eliminating pancreatic cancer tumors.

A physician brought this to my attention and it was yet another wake - up call: Some holistic doctors are building their businesses around patients just like me, the person who has tried everything and is desperate for healing.

Desperate to help my suffering patients, the first thing I did was change my patient intake form.

My heart goes out to all of these patients who are obviously are at their wits end as I am and I see that they are desperate for help and a answer but unfortunately there is no miracle cure out there and I know we have to decide to take control to make a change.

I have seen it in many cases, and these were not necessarily the patients who had exhausted all means and were not only desperate for a complete cure.

I went from hopeful wife, to fertility patient, to woman desperate to have a baby and willing to do anything to have one.

Is it possible a doctor with a medical license maybe wants their patients to get evidenced - based treatment, and discourage the use of things that could be harmful by sheer lack of proven effectiveness alone, instead of being sold over-priced, false promises that prey on people desperate for help who often can't afford the cost, but pay it out - of - pocket anyway?

I'm desperate to find a natural deodarent that will keep me smelling good while I'm busy working with patients in a clinic.

She's so desperate to prove MPD is real that she treats Kevin as a star pupil and seems far too blind to her patient's propensity to violence.

Just as doctors often make challenging patients and mechanics often drive cars in desperate need of a tune up, teachers as a group tend to be reluctant passengers on the training journey.

Feeling desperate, Phaedra uses it to cast spells to save her fading patients.

He struggled to develop the ability to temporarily see past the patient's pain — their wide and desperate eyes — and focus solely on his goals as the surgeon.

When Harper Grayson, a nurse who has made caring for infected patients her life's work, realizes she has been infected with the virus, she's desperate to survive long enough to give birth to the child she carries.

Case history reveals that those who have been diagnosed with this disorder and who have been found guilty of murder show no remorse for their killing, arguing that their actions were motivated by mercy and compassion and that their patients, desperate to be relieved of their suffering, wanted to die.

By contrast, we are putting experimental drugs — barely tested in animals — into ebola patients because there is a desperate need to save lives, but with this....

«Nursing Home Launch «Desperate Attempt» to Keep Psychiatric Patients, ACLU Says.»

Patient 15: In August, 2012 a claimant who was 7 months pregnant was in a panic and desperate after her IFH coverage was cancelled as she could not afford doctor's fees for pre-natal care or delivery.

The Kane Gorny case, in which a young man died despite calling police, so desperate was he for water, is indicative of a culture in which dehydration is routine, pleas for water ignored, and patient desperation mocked, sedated, and treated as criminal.

Prosecutors called the case an «unprecedented» national tragedy, and the indictments ended two years of waiting for patients and families desperate for justice.

Young hypothesized that four schema modes are central to BPD: the abandoned child mode (the present author suggests to label it the abused and abandoned child); the angry / impulsive child mode; the punitive parent mode, and the detached protector mode... The abused and abandoned child mode denotes the desperate state the patient may be in related to (threatened) abandonment and abuse the patient has experienced as a child.