Sentences with phrase «rather than the doctor»

As we often say, «We'd rather have you spend time in the kitchen now rather than the doctor's office later.»

One of the health care workers, probably an assistant or nurse rather than the doctor, will measure your daughter's vital signs, including weight and blood pressure.

Many women choose to use a midwife rather than a doctor because of the difference in practicing philosophy.

Birthing centers are the latest advance in pregnancy and childbirth support: they provide information, caring professional staff and medical backup for women who want to have their babies in natural, comfortable surroundings, with a midwife and doula in attendance rather than a doctor.

A number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle birth attendants in hospital births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out - of - hospital birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home birth (Wagner 1994).

As a patient, it could means that decisions about who provides what service in your area are made by lawyers and judges rather than doctors and nurses in the NHS.

Having said that, when I started my undergraduate studies at UBC, I had no idea I would one day be a naturopathic doctor rather than a doctor of Western medicine.

The high return approach to paying medical bills for credit card rewards involves assigning the insurance benefit to yourself, rather than the doctor.

Another commenter questioned how the good - faith presumption would apply if the information came from a confidential informant or from a person rather than a doctor, law enforcement official, or government official.

Not exact matches

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

Consult with your doctor and choose proven, science - based remedies rather than overpriced and poorly regulated placebos.

For instance, a ProPublica analysis of Medicare's Part D prescription drug program found that doctors who received more industry money were also more likely to prescribe brand name, rather than cheaper generic, drugs.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Later I wondered if I had miscast my judgment as a distinction between castes (doctor vs. nurse) rather than genders.

Rather than asking patients to blindly provide doctors and the health system a bunch of data that is then used to deduce their needs, patients and providers could work together to create an action plan.

AMA leaders decided that rather than allowing doctors to insure patients, only insurance companies would be permitted to offer medical coverage.

The three companies are self - insured employers, which means that when you're an employee going to a doctor's appointment, your employer is ultimately footing the bill for the MRI you receive, rather than a health insurer.

Rather than taking insurance, our doctors set their own rates, are paid cash, and keep two - thirds of the annual fee.

The device will most likely nudge a user to see a doctor rather than making a diagnosis.

Rather than replace the radiologist altogether, DiSanzo said Watson would make the doctor's job easier by narrowing down a series of X-ray or CT images to the most relevant scans, and combining that with other patient records to «make your definitive diagnosis quicker, faster.»

Rather than a one - size - fits - all approach, doctors and researchers will be able to predict more accurately which treatment will work for a particular person.

We'll use smartphones to scan for risk factors of high blood pressure or type - 2 diabetes, «visit» with specialists remotely at medical kiosks — and when we do go for an in - person exam, we'll spend the bulk of time seeing the doctor rather than reading old magazines in the waiting room.

I am not crediting God, but I'd rather have a doctor who believes in something bigger than us all, than a cold atheist who doesn't have hope, or pray and isn't driven by anything in life other than a selfish belief that he is the most intelligent thing in the universe.

They'd rather watch a woman die than let doctors use drugs that might make her miscarry.

Rather than heed her requests, the doctor had her family restrain her and then administered the fatal dose.

How many children have died because some parent «believed» that the child needed an exocisism rather than a visit to the doctor.

There are many forms of illness in which the outcome apparently is open rather than fixed, and the doctor's prediction may be in error.

Why don't u invest more in education so that u export skilled labour like doctors rather than poach them from poor countries.

The doctors themselves are not cruel but the narrowness of their focus on what can be done rather than what should be done makes their actions so.»

A certain grave doctor said that he would rather spend his life in picking up straws by obedience, than by his own responsible choice busy himself with the loftiest works of charity, because one is certain of following the will of God in whatever one may do from obedience, but never certain in the same degree of anything which we may do of our own proper movement.»

Clean drinking water and plumbing helps continue life.in an emergency I'd rather ride in car to hospital than take a donkey to the local witch doctor

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

By the 1980s, the present pattern in which abortions are performed in specialized clinics rather than in hospitals or doctors» offices had been established.

Every year the news has stories of parents letting thier children die waiting for prayer rather than go to a doctor!

Facing a life of chronic illness I made a conscious decision to take responsibility for my body and my illness; rather than waiting and expecting doctors and their medicine to pick me up and make me feel better, I instead began to look at things that I could do myself to help my body to heal and live the best life that it can.

Most doctors have no familiarity with the difference raw rather than pasteurized makes in milk, and some even think raw milk will kill you!

However, rather than head straight to the doctor, I wanted to explore some natural remedies first.

Rather than send out for a nylon substitute, Mrs. Day had her doctor compound an antidote to her allergy.

Some, mainly men, rather than women, are too scared to see a doctor if they suspect they have a serious disease, even cancer.

He could afford the most expensive doctors and they discovered microdosing small amounts of EPO every day, rather than a big dose at one time will allow you to test negative for all but a short window just after injecting and it also helped prevent sudden cardiac death.

Actually, if Kawhi is in NY because he wants to use acupuncture and alternative medicine, and not because he wants to use modern NY - based doctors, then he must believe that established modern sports - medicine is wrong, and not necessarily just the Spurs medical staff... if it's a simple case of the Spurs medical staff misdiagnosing, then why would he follow the acupuncture / alternative medicine approach rather than just following a different medical opinion?

Last year, the former Barcelona coach advised Thiago Alcantara to receive treatment in Spain at his own preferred doctor rather than take Dr Muller - Wohlfahrt's advice.

As I continue on this journey, I find the more I learn about hospitals and standard procedures and doctors» timeframes, etc., the more I think women who elect to birth in a hospital are «brave» rather than the women who do so in their own homes.

I think you made some great points about IF parents choose circumcision for their baby, to be present for the procedure (which I can imagine is so much more reassuring to the baby to hear mom / dad's voice rather than being alone with a doctor) and insist on the anesthesia.

If I can't sleep as an adult I can go to a doctor and try to figure out why, as babies... they need our help to get to the WHY rather than believing it's behavioural or a battle of wills.

We wanted to have control over the parts of the birth process you can have control over, like avoiding routine interventions, knowing all the attendants, being comfortable in our surroundings, and making choices ourselves rather than having doctors or nurses make choices for us.

When it comes to your baby's health, always err on the side of calling the doctor too often, rather than not enough.

Rather than normalizing early weaning and then recommending artificial milks, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists could be educating parents and sharing valuable information on the benefits of continued nursing.

I could make a laundry list of what I would like the second time around with a singleton rather than twins (breastfeeding, not premature, no bed rest, no pre-term labor scares, regular number of doctor's appts, no develo [pmental delays, cheaper, EVERYTHING), but my problem with having my victory baby is there is no way I want a newborn again while also caring for my twins (currently 2.5).

Because the guidelines I work / worked under were so clear, when I brought in a doctor, he knew his expertise was needed, so we collaborated, rather than confront each other.