Sentences with phrase «survival times doctors»
February 17, 2000 Doctors overestimate survival times Doctors who refer patients to hospice care are systematically overoptimistic.
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= > When two lives are at stake, Doctors make triage decisions all the time based on the odds of survival.
Dr. Nedd is a practicing medical doctor and is the creator of The Stress Survival Kit and author of «The Time to Be Happy is Now» and «Power Over Stress» which...
Dr. Nedd is a practicing medical doctor and is the creator of The Stress Survival Kit and author of «The Time to Be Happy is Now» and «Power Over Stress» which is used at New York University.
He went without oxygen for a long time before intubation, and the doctors did not hold out much hope of survival, and if he did survive, they thought there would be brain damage.
Imagine a patient who shows up at a doctor's office with a disease so deadly or so advanced that his chances of survival at the time of the first doctor's visit are already less than 50 percent.
Given that the patient was already likely to die the first time that the doctor saw him (the patient's chances of survival at the very beginning were less than 50 percent), the doctor's malpractice in failing to detect the disease or mistreating it could not be said to have caused the patient's death: the patient was going to die anyway.
Doctors from this hospital introduced revolutionary treatment options for those suffering from Mesothelioma which has helped to increase survival time.