Sentences with phrase «routine physician visits»

Medical assistants often care for terminally ill patients who make routine physician visits, or encounter patients who become acutely ill.

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An «Advanced Care Planning Visit» is a relatively routine visit with a physician or provider where a patient can start or complete documents such as a living will or establishing a healthcare power of attoVisit» is a relatively routine visit with a physician or provider where a patient can start or complete documents such as a living will or establishing a healthcare power of attovisit with a physician or provider where a patient can start or complete documents such as a living will or establishing a healthcare power of attorney.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

Neuroimaging for headaches is frequently ordered by physicians during outpatient visits, despite guidelines that recommend against such routine procedures.

«To most people, especially ophthalmologists, common sense would suggest that there is little harm in simply measuring the vision at a distance during a patient's routine visit to their primary care physician,» Sommer, who wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine, said by email.

Just as regular visits with your personal physician is important, so too are routine visits to a primary care doctor important for dogs and cats.