Sentences with phrase «on the lives of patients»

By being able to witness firsthand the positive impact we're making on the lives of our patients, supporters may be even more so inclined to support us on our journey,» Smile Train CEO Susannah Schaefer explained to me.

No other agency has made a bigger impact on the lives of patients around the world.

«They are helping us move our technology from the research lab to the real world, where it already is making a positive impact on the lives of patients.»

The findings suggest that gene therapy can have a positive impact on the lives of patients.

Dr. Lin says that hearing loss has an enormous impact on the lives of his patients and their family members.

My experience assisting physical therapists in comprehensive patient care and treatment management — complemented by my superior interpersonal skills and my supportive and motivational personality — give me confidence in my ability to significantly benefit your team and make a positive impact on the lives of your patients.

Medical sales professionals are proud to work for their employers and in the industry as a whole because they are working with products that have a direct impact on the lives of patients — their work is meaningful.

Candidate must have good communication skills, and the desire to make a positive impact on the lives of patients.

Not exact matches

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

«If we bring forward innovative drugs that make a difference in the lives of patients, they'll continue to get attractive pricing,» he says, noting Biogen's work on potential breakthrough Alzheimer's and (additional) multiple sclerosis meds.

While Steel established the soundness of his suggestions in laboratories (and continues to collect data via free diagnostic tests offered on his website, procrastinus.com), he has always been his own Patient Zero, inoculating himself against his bad habits with life hacks like those outlined in his book.

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.

Heading off crises for even a fraction of these patients would not only save countless lives; it would cut down on the costly hospitalizations that account for a large chunk of health care spending.

Consider the GOP staffer who insulted President Obama's daughters, the paramedic who took disgraceful pictures of dying patients, the assisted - living employee who posted a photo of a client on the toilet.

While the comfortably well - off and live - for - today segments may carry on as usual, the slam - on - the - brakes and pained - but - patient segments — by far the large majority of consumers — may well retain the consumption habits they've learned.

I've owned it for the past three years with a cost average of $ 4.64 - it's the future of cancer treatment in my opinion, with brain cancer patients living 7 plus years on its lead drug and impressive results in its second drug candidate for triple negative breast cancer.

This surgeon was one of the best in this field and had even successfully tried a treatment on this exact cancer for other patients that tripled the five - year - survival odds — from 5 percent to 15 percent — albeit with a poor quality of life.

This act has now become the law of the land and requires that patients on admission to a hospital or other institutions in receipt of federal health care funds be questioned about Advance Directives» which are a Living Will, Health Care Agent, Durable Power of Attorney» so that if unable to express an opinion, the patient's wishes concerning life - sustaining technologies will have been made known.

-- you are being tested... what you are saying is part of the tests you were created to believe in One God and by using the free will you are denying the oneness of God... this is the biggest test... and so in your daily life... you will see everything on that day and its promise of the Almighty to the humanity... but we just have to be patient and wait till the day comes....

You are either intentionally or ignorantly — both then and now, i.e., 13 years later — are depriving those patients whom whom God of love is putting in your path to use your divinity school knowledge and your biblical faith experience to guide the path of that talk towards the absolute truth related to the love of God — i.e. true love which stems from God by giving his only Son for whoever to choose to believe on him to have «everlasting life» by having his / her sins forgiven.

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

How sad to claim to be a chaplain and not be able to tell a dying patient anything about the specifics on the other side of the veil; what will happen to a person who has died, what they will be doing, what is the exact nature of God and those who depart from this life.

The patient may still live and continue making post in the internet like most (if not all) of half monkeys on this board.

But Lee and Pennsylvania sex therapist Dr. John Giugliano, both members of the Society for Sexual Advancement - a national nonprofit think tank of licensed sex therapists - worry that therapy can become overly focused on dogma and ignore the patient's real - life issues.

By asserting this Christological interpretation of the pastoral relationship, one might seem to be offering an alternative to that patient exploration of the specific problems and emotional patterns of people's lives which psychiatrists and other counselors carry on.

While I would of course be very happy for the cancer patients if this worked, I would find it very depressing to find there was such an ass of a god out there that he made decisions about random people's lives based on how many people prayed.

This room, these faces looking at the patient, those things on the wall, these are all that remain of a life that once enjoyed more, much more.

This may mean helping a patient deal with the implications of his faith for his problems, raising the issue with the staff regarding the effect of the religious dimension of a patient's life on his present behavior, or in helping the staff to deal with their own religious feelings or understanding.

It is important to understand, it seems to me, that the LCP should be considered unacceptable under all circumstances, not simply for Catholics but universally, since it is based on an ideological notion about the end of life, a pressing of all supposedly dying patients into a predetermined pattern of treatment involving the withdrawal of food and hydration (itself an unacceptable procedure under all circumstances) and not on an evidence - based assessment of the needs of individual patients.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward.

On and on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients» lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central controOn and on it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients» lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central controon it goes, where it stops, nobody knows: Now UK hospitals are being accused of putting patients» lives at risk by failing to comply with safety orders from central control.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

With aggressive treatment it may on occasion be possible to sustain their life somewhat longer, but, because they are essentially dying patients, it seems better simply to give them what care and comfort we can while permitting them to die without the bodily intrusiveness of aggressive measures.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Among all my patients in the second half of life — that is to say, over 35 — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In the early days bioethics focused on such larger issues, but the field was in time overtaken by an interest in what can be called regulatory bioethics: the protection of research subjects, the advancement of patient rights, and the devising of procedural guidelines for end - of - life care, for instance.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

When neurosis is viewed as the product of the impossible demands made on the individual by an overdeveloped conscience, therapy may be directed not toward helping the patient live up to his or her conscience, but rather toward bringing down the conscience to the level of behavior.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

(I'm thinking of people like Lisa Sharon Harper, who has worked tirelessly on immigration reform; Justin Lee, who models and practices «living in the tension» through his work with the Gay Christian Network; Karla, the struggling mother of three whose infectious smile greets thousands of people at our local food pantry here in Rhea County; our friends from Samaritan's Purse working with Ebola patients in West Africa; or Sarah Bessey, who is expecting Tiny # 4 soon.)

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

Doctors and hospital bioethics committees are empowered to refuse to provide wanted life - sustaining treatment, based on their perception of the patient's quality of life and / or cost - of - care considerations — a true «death panel.»

Jung wrote: «Among all my patients in the second half of life... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

From the ancient Hippocratic Oath to modern codes like the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics, physicians have understood that the doctor — patient relationship must be founded on trust, which is the reason that physicians publicly promise to use their knowledge and skills only for purposes of healing, and never for taking life.

For many years now, there has been researches but no scientist can prove how miracle of prayers take place in the life of some patients after doctors give up on them

5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who «will render to each one according to his deeds»: [a] 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness — indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Not the Hale - Bopp Comet, not invaders from space, not Clinton as King Belshazzar redux, not wars or rumors of war, but instead the gracious and patient hand that reaches out to halt the ax, the merciful gesture woven into the fabric of life that stays all that would give up on the barren and the broken, the merciful voice that says, «Let's give this hopeless case one more year.