Sentences with phrase «not at least patient»

I can paint (contrary to popular belief, in colors other than black, white and yellow), and I'm pretty darn handy (if not at least patient) with the crafty projects.

Not exact matches

(It wasn't, at least for most patients in most situations.)

Testifying Wednesday morning as a run - up to Pres. Obama's evening speech, Messrs. Geithner and Paulson at least avoided the Washington ploy of emulating Alzheimer's patients and saying that they couldn't recall anything about their giveaways.

The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths... Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news.

Taken as a whole, they are not sick or well, but in that uncomfortable in - between stage at which the patient is well enough to keep going and at least perfunctorily do his work, yet unable to do it with zest, enthusiasm, and effectiveness.

Some can not... at least, not to any more of a degree than that terminally ill cancer patient.

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

A role of the dice is what's needed, if only to give some genuine hope to a very patient set of fans, we could drop out of top 4, absolutely... We could end up winning the league, but at least we would be making a statement by saying that this isn't acceptable anymore!

They had to keep a lid on things, careful of 50 / 50s... At least we still had an attack which posed a threat on the counter and the team had confidence in being patient, a trait which should be admired and not slandered.

Whether or not the problems are huge, at least someone goes to the trouble of identifying and quantifying them (e.g., the new study in the Journal of Patient Safety — a whole freakkin» journal devoted to safety, who knew?)

Something like «something that the patient notices or that requires the patient to sit down for at least 10 minutes if they were not otherwise sitting»?

At least I hope that's what she means, I can't imagine someone so ignorant treating actual patients!

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Remember, a baby's heartbeat can't be detected by a professional sonogram until at least 8 weeks, so be patient and wait until the timing is right to start using Womb Music.

survey of 1,000 recent patients found at least a quarter had been forced to bring in their own food, while one in five hospital staff said they would not eat the meals offered to patients.

«With over eighty percent of New Yorkers saying that doctors over-prescribing opioids and allowing patients access to too many pain pills are at least somewhat responsible for the current level of opioid abuse, it is concerning, but not surprising, that among those that were prescribed, a quarter admit that they were given too many pills and nearly two - thirds didn't take the entire prescription.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

He felt if he couldn't change society at least he could do right by his patients.

Most of the patients died, including at least one — a woman treated in Krasnodar, Russia — who was not seriously ill before the surgery.

And at the very least we have a significant proportion of patients enjoying prolonged survival even if we can't call them «cured»,» he said.

She had at least a few stints at in - patient rehabilitation clinics but did not entirely stay clean afterward.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

Even when Unger adjusted his model to account for the fact that not all patients may get the new treatment, and even when he lowered the effect of the new treatment to three, not five years, the model showed a benefit of at least 2 million years in nearly every simulation.

Fifty patients have enrolled in a study to answer that question; the results won't be available for at least a year.

The team will present on the first 10 patients in the trial, each of whom had been taking ibrutinib for at least six months but had not achieved a complete remission.

According to Dr. Smith, at least one patient comes through the North Shore - LIJ Health System each year who can't be helped by the two traditional methods, and he expects in the next five years to harvest a patient's cells, grow them on a scaffolding, and repair a windpipe.

Specifically, physicians who reported knowing at least one patient, family member or friend with a poor breast cancer prognosis and who had not been screened were more likely to recommend routine screening for their younger and older patients, age groups where routine screening is controversial.

It was not until age 20 that 50 percent of patients had at least one six - month period free of symptoms and treatment.

The single - center prospective study included 80 patients experiencing at least three months of low back pain due to a herniated disk that had not responded to conservative treatments including exercise and medication.

While most patients see at least 50 percent of their normal color returning to the treated area, success is not guaranteed and sometimes no pigmentation is seen after the procedure.

What has been more surprising to the researchers is not that the improvements have held for the year — that much had already been documented in animal studies — but that, at least in one of the patients, the therapy helped train the eye to see better.

Study participation was restricted to patients with either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia who did not achieve a stable heart rhythm after at least one defibrillator shock and, therefore, represent the typical group of those who receive such medications for cardiac arrest in clinical practice.

Information on the embryo quality rating was not available to clinicians during the IVF procedures that were part of the study, but when researchers unblinded the study results, they found that patients with at least one «high» rated embryo transferred had a 54 percent viable pregnancy rate compared to a 34 percent rate for those following transfer of only a «low» rated embryo.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

City of Hope will be the one of the first authorized centers in the nation to provide axicabtagene ciloleucel, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today is the first approved CAR T therapy for adult patients who have not responded to or who have relapsed after at least two other kinds of treatment.

Rather, the new study suggests that how long a patient survives after diagnosis is linked not to total fat but to the distribution of body fat, at least for women.

The patient had been living with HIV for at least seven years and had not been adhering to therapy.

Studies were included if their authors provided the requisite original data, they comprised adult outpatients, they included a medication vs placebo comparison for at least 6 weeks, they did not exclude patients on the basis of a placebo washout period, and they used the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS).

June 7, 2011 Many patients with advanced cancers get treatments that won't help A study of more than 1,000 patients with colon cancer that had spread to distant sites found that one in eight was treated with at least one drug regimen that was not recommended.

The patients, who ranged in age from 20 to 65, had suffered from disk - related low back pain for at least six months and hadn't found relief from physical therapy, opioid medications, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen.

And some leukemias don't need any treatment at all, at least while the patient has no symptoms.

«They don't have to believe that it will do any good — and many of my patients don't at first — but they have to at least try it for a few weeks.»

In a study of 1,900 people who had recently had heart attacks, the death rate in patients who drank at least two cups of green tea a day was 44 % less than in those who didn't drink tea.

At least once a day, I'm asked by one of my patients whether or not they can eat raw cruciferous vegetables.

Or at least I don't every day, or with a patient attitude all the time, or while still managing to get a shower and brush my hair.

Shouldn't medicating patients with depression result in a cure, or at least a declining rate of disability for mental health concerns?

While Dr. Guldvog has followed many of his patients for at least 18 months and reports that most of them remain symptom - free, I don't know any people that have had their thyroids removed due to Hashimoto's.

Unfortunately physicians aren't generally trained appropriately and don't practice in environments that reward the achievement of health in their patients... at least this docs perspective for what it is worth.

I have been treating patients with psoriasis for as long as I've been in natural medicine practice, for twenty - six years, and I can tell you this one vital piece of information when it comes to chronic skin conditions: You will NOT recover unless you are prepared to stay on track and remain committed to the dietary changes I have recommended for at least 3 to 6 months, but preferably for as long as 12 months.

The patient is complaining from discomfort in the abdomen; not necessarily pain, at least one time every week during the last two months