Sentences with phrase «very little a patient»

For most of cancer treatment, things are just being done to you; there's very little a patient can do to get well from cancer on her own.

Next Page: Getting the right diagnosis was a challenege [pagebreak] Doctors couldn't agree on a diagnosis Back then there was very little medical consensus on bipolar disorder — and there was very little patient consultation on which treatment would be preferred.

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You might think that showing up on social media has very little in common with being physically present with a patient, but you would be wrong.

Bank of Montreal chief economist Douglas Porter said that bank appears very patient, with little appetite to move in January despite the near - record low jobless rate.

Over half the patients of the 438 who supplied information had very little or no contact with their ministers.

To be a very good friend of your little one, the very first skill you should acquire as a parent is - become a patient listener.

Meaghan Howard is a stay - at - home mom living far from home with her two little boys and very patient husband.

Other midwives are so exhausted from long shifts that they have very little left to give to their patients.

They want to help their patients have great births but they know very well that little about birthing is predictable.

My boy was very patient and my little girl not so much.

Although it is a very expensive procedure to map a patients genetic sequences, the cost is falling all the time, from an initial # 10,000 per person it is expected to soon cost as little as # 1,000 each.

The 100 patients who completed the survey used very little of their prescriptions, usually somewhere from one to 12 pills.

«Right now the problem in donor stem cell therapy is that we inject the stem cells into the patient but most of the stem cells don't proliferate very well, so they repair very little part of the muscle,» Kumar said.

«It looks like a rush to use this as a treatment and telling patients that this is the treatment, during a time when we still know very little about what the outcomes are.»

If all healthcare workers were trained to give brief advice to their patients on stopping smoking, as part of their everyday work, lasting no more than a few minutes, it could save thousands of lives at very little cost.

«We have found that even a very brief intervention of a video showing patients how to use saline nasal irrigation can improve symptoms, help people feel they do not need to see the doctor to manage the problem, and reduce the amount of over-the-counter medication they need to use,» said Dr. Paul Little, Primary Care and Population Sciences Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

«We know very little about what went on between doctor and patient,» even in more recent times, he says.

While numerous studies have quantified the incidence rate of TKR and THR and in the U.S., there is very little information about the number of patients actually living with a prosthetic knee or hip.

«This is an early stage trial, but we are encouraged by the fact that the cells got into the brain, proliferated, and reduced the level of antigen with very little toxicity to the patients,» O'Rourke said.

«We have had very little high - quality evidence to guide decision - making for how best to evaluate these patients.

In addition, these medicines do very little to stop the spread of malaria, as the parasites remain in the blood for a long time, with the chance that other mosquitos are infected if they feed on the patient.

The researchers found that, on average, the 161 diabetes patients got very little sleep and had poor glucose control.

By inspecting more features of the lymph node, we can separate the lymph - node positive breast cancer patients into a group who will develop distant metastasis quickly, and identify those patients who have very little risk of getting secondary cancers.

For a patient with very advanced disease, these therapies had little to no chance to work.

Over 17,000 people die each year from the two diseases in the UK, but very little is known about how they develop and why patients respond differently to treatment.

A pulmonologist at the Medical Center was the first to show that patients with cystic fibrosis have very little mucous in their airways — not as much as was previously thought.

At the other end of the spectrum, heart patients who consumed very little sodium were also more likely than those with average intake to die of heart disease or be hospitalized for heart failure.

«It's very common to see little rips and tears in that padding in patients with arthritis.»

Results showed conclusively that with very little pressure, the fibromyalgia patients felt far more pain than the control group.

In these cases, patients will have very large increases in insulin but very little else wrong with them.

But even after implementing everything I learned from the best in the industry, my psoriasis patients outcomes improved very little in the long term...

In fact, very little attention is paid to the patient's lifestyle, apart from a prescription of an antidepressant or sleeping pill.

I've been writing about this for a while — mostly on the basis of fairly weak indirect evidence because there's very little research on the health effects of wheat vs. other grains except in celiac patients.

Opioid use may cause blood sugar levels to be very unstable and may cause hypoglycemia.5 - 7 Opioids also cause a «sugar desire effect» on opioid receptors.8, 9 Consequently, the combination of severe chronic pain and opioid treatment can cause deranged glucose metabolism in patients and a potent desire to ingest primarily sugars and starches, with little protein or fat intake.

There is very little data actually supporting the use of a ketogenic diet as a treatment for bipolar, and a well - documented case where a bipolar patient on valporic acid developed full - blown mania with psychosis after starting a ketogenic diet (thanks to @neurocritic for pointing me to this report; read about it below).

«The obstacle that many dietitians come across when helping patients improve and optimise their diets is that they have very little interest in food, and it's very difficult to change the eating habits of those who don't embrace or appreciate food and diet,» he says.

She'd been extremely patient travelling across Paris on a very hot day to catch a glimpse of me at various points during the marathon so as a treat I promised her a new My Little Pony toy.

My daughter was very patient with me and I think she even had a little fun helping.

In this place of concrete and telephone wires, transients subsisting on very little and tourists lost on the way to the nearby theme park, six - year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) runs amok with a shifting group of friends and gets into trouble with the motel's usually patient manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), while being occasionally looked after by her very young, alternately lackadaisical and ferocious mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite).

You will notice early on that the Refn asks for a patient and attentive audience as there is very little dialogue throughout.

Despite having very little time to complete the purchase, Francine was patient, polite and efficient throughout the transaction, the consummate professional.

She used to be a teacher but stayed home now, caring for the little ones, patient and gentle and too smart for the brutality of that life, it was sucking the lifeblood out of her and yet feeding her at the same time — she was loving, that's what it was, this man was well loved (something in the relaxed way he moved, the shine on his face) and right now the wife was sleeping with all of their little ones in their big bed because it was easier that way, and she liked the warmth of their small bodies nestled against her, and she missed him so very much, and maybe she thought that sometimes on those long, long trips he was up to something but she trusted him because she wanted to because he had that boldness in his eyes, that life --

At this point, we have very little to work with, so we must remain patient until we do.

My brother started at the same time I did but he paid too much for Coke, Mattel, MCD, Exxon and so on so all his stocks were down by a lot recently... He also put US dividend growth stocks inside his TFSA account and as such lost 30 % of his dividends... With the recent dip he has decided it was enough and quit the plan... I'm sad he didn't take the time to listen to me a little more, read more books and blogs and educate himself a little more... but he's not a very patient guy.

The staff is so sweet and kind to the animals, we have a timid little Chihuahua and they are very patient and gentle when trimming his nails.

On the personal side, when Dr. Kocher is not busy seeing patients, she keeps very busy with her three children, her 3 dogs and 2 cats, and even tries to get in a little time with her favorite hobbies, horseback riding and gardening.

Customization can be made to vehicle of delivery (liquid, tablet, capsule) and medication strength, taking into account the very littlest of our patients all the way through to the very biggest.

Luckily, in Crystal the little senior dog had a very patient guardian.

Dr. Bloomberg notes that although there is very little material on pediatric anesthesia in animals, the pediatric patient in human medicine is generally considered to be a very good surgical candidate and there is no reason why this should not also be true for dogs and cats.

Joanne administers warm subcutaneous fluids to an older female canine patient who needed a little extra hydration following her surgery; she recovered very well!