Sentences with phrase «patient by the physician»

The inpatient setting, compared with the outpatient setting, offers a unique advantage when studying patient outcomes between male and female physicians: within a given hospital, there is plausibly less selection of the physician by the patient or of the patient by the physician.

«After identification of appropriate candidates for testing through a validated OSA risk questionnaire, home sleep testing equipment is provided to the patient by the physician or mailed directly to the their home.

Improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, nurse, hospital or other health care professional.

There Duff J. held that professional secrets acquired from a patient by a physician in the course of his or her practice are the patient's secrets and, normally, are under the patient's control.

Reinforces instructions given to the patient by the physicians and registered nurses.

Not exact matches

A second challenging (and nonsensical) barrier to stemming this firearm - health crisis, he says, is the widely propagated myth that physicians can't, or shouldn't, talk to their patients about the safety risks of guns — a belief reinforced by a misunderstanding of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.

After that, Watson will take assist by providing both physician and patient with a report that includes the most relevant drug trial and academic studies for their specific conditions.

Last year, Kaiser's physicians conducted approximately 20 million e-Visits — that is, they consulted with their patients by email.

Kaiser avoids this trap by delivering care to patients through teams of providers (doctors, nurses, nutritionists, etc.) and physicians --» who quarterback this care,» Tyson says — get a flat salary, receiving end - of - year bonus payments if their patients achieve better health.

This represents an average savings of $ 167 per Medicare patient per year compared with patients treated by physicians not participating in MOC, amounting to a total cost reduction of approximately $ 5 billion annually.

Participation by specialty physicians in an ABMS Member Board MOC program has a positive impact on patient care, improves outcomes, and serves as an important tool for consumers, hospitals, and physicians.

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

Samantha's advanced AI capabilities enable physicians to save six to eight hours each week by reducing the need to manually input details from a patient's appointment.

When a physician prescribes expensive medications made by a company in which she just happens to own stock, the real risk is not that this won't be the right medicine, but that patients will come to doubt, quite generally, the motives underlying their physicians» decision - making.

By increasing the number of devices accessible to physicians, mobile medical devices improve patient care and reduce costs.

Just by observing the physicians» body language, subjects were able to guess which physicians ended up getting sued by their patients.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Whenever a patient walks into one of these clinics, the community health worker records vital parameters, facilitates a video consultation between the patient and a physician, prints the e-prescription emailed by the doctor and provides medicines free of cost.

The goal is to allow physicians to spend more face - to - face time with patients, by bringing together many services from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud including Custom Speech Services (CSS) and Language Understanding Intelligent Services (LUIS), customized for the medical domain.

The company's products are used by hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctor's offices and by patients at home under physician supervision.

However, seriously underweight anorexic patients who see themselves as obese are not treated with weight - reducing liposuction by physicians who go along with their irrational belief.

Because of the possibility of serious toxic reactions the patient should be informed by the physician of the risks involved, and should be under a physician's constant supervision.»

The outcome in this struggle is not decided by his [the patient's] intellectual insight... it is neither strong enough nor free enough to accomplish such a thing, but solely by his relationship to the physician.12

Before a patient was accepted for treatment, he was required to have a careful diagnostic examination by a physician and, in some cases, a psychiatrist.

The third phase of the Emmanuel program consisted of the «friendly visitors,» whose purpose was «to give to the environment of the patients care similar to that provided for their bodies by the physicians, and for their minds by the clergymen.»

The interests of the individual patient have long been guarded by the tenets of the Hippocratic tradition, which balance patient autonomy and physician beneficence.

But the scientific and technological advances of the twentieth century, along with the growth of corporate medicine, have been accompanied by a gradual deterioration of the patient - physician relationship.

equally important is the fact that in addition to family physicians, the clergymen of the community,... and the other guardians of mental health can consult with the center's professional staff to aid in serving individual patients about whom they share concern, as well as to add to their own knowledge of mental health and mental illness through formal and informal classes and meetings presented by the center's staff.

The typical procedure is for the patient to take a lethal dose of poison (by swallowing pills, by injecting himself or by inhaling a gas, for example) that the patient has asked the physician to prescribe for that purpose.

Disturbingly, «the physician's opinion about a patient's desire for resuscitation correlated only weakly with the preference expressed by the patient» (Susanna E. Bedell and Thomas L. Delbanco, «Choices About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital: When Do Physicians Talk with Patients?»

For instance, most common adult solid tumors that are not cured by surgical removal are resistant to chemotherapy or radiation control, yet drug therapy is frequently offered as a «possibly effective» treatment because both patient and physician want to believe it so.

Many of the problems occasioned by the ACOG ethics report could have been avoided by recognizing the proper scope of liberty enjoyed by both patients and physicians.

It would seem that the conscientious judgment of the individual physician chosen by the patient is paramount only when this facilitates abortion.

In Anatomy of an Illness Norman Cousins has recorded the story of a patient's struggle to become a part of the healing process by assuming control over phases of diet and medication normally the province of the physician alone.

This article marked the first time that premier physicians used a prominent journal to discuss not only «pulling the plug,» but whether physician - assisted suicide (performed by the patient) and euthanasia (performed by the physician) should be a part of the continuum of medical care.

Since these procedures typically require a transfer of tissue from one patient to another, physicians must be careful to choose well - matched donors to avoid rejection by the recipient's immune system....

By permitting patients to refuse treatment at the end of life, but not allowing physician - assisted suicide, the state unfairly treats similarly situated persons.

It was developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher - Benner for patients in his hospital.

Packaging does not contain the caveat that oats are not safe for everyone, that they should not be consumed in amounts larger than 1/4 to 1/2 cup per day, and that the patient should be closely followed by a physician to monitor changes to their health.

«As health care providers dealing with concussions, we need to be aware that many concussed patients may be bullied or shamed on social media by friends or teammates who may not believe that they are experiencing concussion symptoms, or that those symptoms are lingering,» notes Mark Halstead, M.D., a sports medicine physician and Director of the Washington University Sports Concussion Clinic & Young Athlete Center.

It is «very concerning,» she said, «when my patients share their story and fears that they will not recover, and are being told by physicians and other health care providers that they trust that they will likely not get better and that living with lingering symptoms was likely to be their «new normal.»

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The issues surrounding this procedure are complex; our physicians and nurses can provide information regarding the procedure, but patients considering this option will be referred for the more detailed, expert counseling that can only be provided by a perinatologist experienced in both selective reduction and management of high - order multiple gestations.

The dentistry issued a statement of sympathy for Mykel and his parents and said that it would be premature to comment on any specifics until outside medical experts finish their review, but they said they have used general anesthesia more than 1,900 times for pediatric patients in the last three and a half years without incident, and that they contract with a board - certified anesthesiologist who follows all protocols including pre-operative check and approval by the child's primary care physician before putting the child under anesthesia.

Some physicians became wealthy by inventing their own formulas, but most physicians saw a new source of income from patients coming to see them to help them with infant feeding.

The home births were attended by lay midwives, while physicians cared for the hospital patients.

After the reclassification of transferred patients, the out - of - hospital rate of cesarean delivery (performed by a physician who was not the planned birth attendant) was 5.3 %.

Our patients benefit from a team - based approach led by staff physicians who are certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

If your child is teething understand that the child will be difficult to parent due to a situation by default not her choice to wan na grow and loose teeth not your fault its that time for her teeth to come in be patient stay calm and don't let the situation get the best of you anger is an emotion all of us can control sooth her comfort her talk to her clean your hands make sure your finger nails are clipped massage her gums administer her oral gel and give her children's pain medicine after consulting your physician feed her reguarly and take your time as she enters and exits another phase in this journey we call life

Also, personal requests were made by all of the physicians when the patients were seen in the office.