Sentences with phrase «role as a physician»

The American Medical Association, as well as the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), also has several groups and initiatives aimed at addressing the concerns of women in their roles as physicians and physician - researchers.

In her role as a physician caring for high - risk pregnancies, she has counseled and treated hundreds of women over the years in her very own situation, and has found a whole new respect for the challenges and complications a woman may experience when trying to have a baby later in life.

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Medicare's architects also appointed insurance companies to act as program administrators, to operate as intermediaries between the federal government and hospitals and physicians, a role that they have to this day.

As always, the class of 2017 will include its share of lawyers, physicians, military officers, and athletes looking to switch careers or groom themselves for leadership roles.

Undue influence plays a role in many - if not most - cases of financial abuse, says Dr. Bennett Blum, a physician specializing in forensic and geriatric psychiatry who serves as an expert witness in elder abuse cases.

Without knowing it, or indeed, appreciating it, we may find ourselves in a strategic role as uncles or family friends, as teachers or physicians, as neighbors or significant strangers.

It is true, as the ACOG points out, that, in taking on the role of physician, a person undertakes certain obligations.

As stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquAs stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquas the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.»

Increase visibility / public relations of the insurance industry and role in order to educate midwives and collaborating physicians as to the insurance options that are available.

You want a physician that you trust and respect, but also someone who respects your role as a parent.

In addition to her role as Commissioner of Health, Dr. Burstein is also a clinical professor at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Services; serves as the adolescent committee chair of the New York Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is a board certified adolescent medicine physician, providing STD care to adolescents.

«In a number of these diseases, such as lupus and Sjogren's syndrome, a class of interferon known as type 1 interferon is made in abundance and plays a key role, contributing to the immune dysfunction,» said Mary K. Crow, MD, physician - in - chief at Hospital for Special Surgery and senior study author.

Other factors such as wait time and physician and nurse communication play a far greater role in patient satisfaction, according to Babu.

But a new UCLA study suggests a simple way to lighten their load: a «physician partner» whose role would be to work on those administrative tasks, such as entering information into patient records, that take up so much of doctors» time.

The study, published as a research letter in the June 29, 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is believed to be the first that examines physicians» attitudes, beliefs and behaviors regarding their emerging role in the assessment of physical and mental competency and the licensing of concealed weapons.

Indeed, throughout history, physicians have played a central role in advancing the science of medicine as the «translators» of medical research.

While genetics play a role in the development of Lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can attack any organ system in the human body, so do environmental triggers, such as particulates in air pollution and ultraviolet light, explains Gaurav Gulati, MD, a physician - researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

As hospitals and health systems increasingly focus on addressing the rising cost of health care in the United States, and with the expense of surgical care playing a major role, physician researchers and others across the healthcare industry are working to identify innovative ways to reduce surgical costs.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

Current clinical practice is to prescribe ARBs as a first - line drug to many patients with high blood pressure, and physicians should now be more aware of potential role for these autoantibodies in decision to treat.

► In a policy forum in this week's STM, four physician scientists expressed concern that a recent «shift toward new models of medical education in which research plays a minimal role... threatens the quality of education received by our future biomedical workforce as well as the pipeline of physician - scientists — important consequences that have received little attention.»

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

Even in establishing the clinic at Mass General, Choy said they deliberately marketed the service to referring physicians as being part of the medical team, and not as an effort to overstep their role in a patient's care.

Follow - up care, cooperation with the patient's non-hospital-based physicians, and access to self - help groups all have an important role to play as part of an integrative treatment concept.

His personal characteristics and professional standards as a medical research scientist make him a great role model for young scientists, physicians, and research workers in all the disciplines of science.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

Psychiatrists have longed to be legitimized in their role as science - based physicians.

Back in the day, physicians looked at insulin as having just one single primary role in the body, the same role we're all taught in high school biology — the removal and storage of sugar from the blood after a meal.

Change happens slowly, and I know part of my role as a naturopathic physician who specializes in pediatrics is to help change the mindset of my patients, my families and the other physicians and pediatricians that I work with.

Naturopathy views the role of the physician as one of educator rather than paternalistic all - powerful figure of the past.

Dr. Evans wrote: «As a naturopathic physician, I believe my role is to look at all sides of a medical challenge and figure out the best approach to optimal health for my patients.»

As a naturopathic physician, I believe my role is to look at all sides of a medical challenge and figure out the best approach to optimal health for my patients.

The International Herpes Alliance describes the role of a support group as an enterprise that can provide medical health advice, relate sufferers to treatment centres and physicians and help individuals pass through different psychological levels.

The actor retained a firm hold on his craft, however, and delivered some of the finest work of his career late in the game, with prominent roles in David Cronenberg's 1991 Naked Lunch (as a wiseacre physician) and Bart Freundlich's family - themed psychodrama The Myth of Fingerprints (1997, as a seriously deranged father with a seedy and twisted past).

I think I see it as the author's job to take on that family - physician role and try to coordinate and manage the many factors at play and potentially involved in the approach to his or her own work.

The potential supply of medical professionals to meet this demand was seen during World War II, when Dr. Eugene Stead realized that an intermediate role might be possible through employment of soldiers who had gone through a 2 - year medical training program to become medics in combat.1 By the end of the Vietnam War, a large number of medical corpsmen had returned to the United States, providing a large pool of medically inclined, highly trained individuals without the ability to practice as physicians.

Just as diagnosis of a symptom's cause is at the core of the physician's role, recognizing that a person's circumstance creates legally enforceable obligations, rights and remedies is at the heart of what lawyers do.

«Had the Employer described to a work group a physician's diagnosis of a co-worker, that it had obtained in its role as employer, disclosure would clearly be a breach of the employee's right to privacy of their personal medical information.

Similarly, colleges of physicians or nurses and medical schools could also play a role in educating their members as to the effects which disability could have on a person's health situation.

A Functional Abilities Form (FAF) was completed by Campbell's physician indicating that she could not stand more than 30 minutes and all other activities related to the HCA role could be performed only «as tolerated».

The job role of a medication assistant may vary from performing clerical tasks such as scheduling appointments, maintaining records of visitors, answering telephone calls to clinical tasks such as monitoring vital signs of a patient, performing lab tests, administering medicines and any other duties assigned by the Registered Nurse or Physician.

[Please note that if you have one or two past work experience as an assistant to a physician or in a related role, you can highlight it here following the same format as the above.

Plays a key role in maintaining a high level of patient satisfaction by providing patients with exceptional customer service and serving as the liaison between patients, physicians and pharmacies

Her roles as a pharmacy intern include preparing IVs, interpreting and evaluating drug therapy, ensuring proper control and dispensing of narcotics, interacting with clinical pharmacists, physicians and nurses regarding drug therapy, and counseling the patients and answering their questions regarding medications, nutrition supplements, and herbal preparations.

Seeking a fulfilling role as a clinical assistant where I can use my experience in administrative work and handling clinical equipment to assist the physician and perform any task assigned to me

In my current role as Medical Assistant with Dr. Dennis Heinz, I greet patients and input pertinent medical information into the computer system, as well as take vital signs and assist with other office practices as needed by the physician.

Our office nurse resume sample covers these skills and more, painting our sample candidate as someone reliable, with the medical expertise needed to take a trusted role on physicians» teams.

As the right hand to surgeons and physicians, your role as an office nurse requires a complex set of skills combining extensive medical knowledge with a deft, compassionate way with patientAs the right hand to surgeons and physicians, your role as an office nurse requires a complex set of skills combining extensive medical knowledge with a deft, compassionate way with patientas an office nurse requires a complex set of skills combining extensive medical knowledge with a deft, compassionate way with patients.

The role of the Medical Secretary is to provide the first line of contact for clinical operations, staffing and patient issues and serves as the liaison between the patient and physician.