Online ratings that review physicians — just like ratings for restaurants, movies and mechanics — can influence
what doctor a patient chooses, but most patients rank insurance acceptance and convenience as more important factors, according to U-M research published Feb. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Not exact matches
But
what if AI and deep learning could help
doctors figure out a
patient's disease simply by analyzing a face — no scans or testing required?
Exposure therapy pushes
patients to recount their traumas, visualize it in their imaginations and explain to the
doctor what is happening as they experience the stressful scenario.
And
doctors, who have little info about how
patients pay for drugs, often prescribe
what is seen as the latest and greatest, even if the extra benefit is small.
But follow - up appointments with
doctors can be challenging — and are certainly inconvenient, since the
patient has to drive (or be driven) to the
doctor's office for
what often amounts to a five - minute appointment.
If
doctors can more accurately predict
what drugs will treat someone's cancer, they can select the right drugs for the right
patients.
A big part of
what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer
patient population — a decision that has meant that
doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if
patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.
To see
what the new balance of power will look like in the coming years — and
what it looks like right now — Fortune interviewed more than three dozen executives at companies across the health care continuum, along with entrepreneurs,
doctors,
patients, and other experts.
What doctors don't know is what effect it would have on the consciousness, memories or personalities of patients, that one day in the future, could possibly benefit from that type of proced
What doctors don't know is
what effect it would have on the consciousness, memories or personalities of patients, that one day in the future, could possibly benefit from that type of proced
what effect it would have on the consciousness, memories or personalities of
patients, that one day in the future, could possibly benefit from that type of procedure.
In the area of living individuals and genetic intervention are questions of
patient responsibility and the sharing of genetic information: If a
doctor could know that you will contract Huntington's disease at age 40 or Alzheimer's disease at age 60, at
what age would you want to be told?
his decision to convert had nothing to do with
what he found, but
what he experienced as a
doctor of dying
patients and his investigation of different beliefs.
Case in point: For years I predicted that Oregon's assisted suicide law would not result in
doctors and
patients with long standing relationships working out
what is best for end - of - life care.
The «Lazarus effect» is a phrase coined by
doctors and relief workers in Africa to describe
what happens to AIDS
patients after they start receiving antiretroviral medicines.
Most serious of all is the fact that communication between
doctor and
patient is consistently short of
what it might be.
No HL does not have there right to know
what goes on between a
doctor and
patient... ever.
To illustrate, the statement by a trusted family
doctor to an alcoholic
patient, that he «is not an alcoholic but simply drinks too much and should cut down,» can petrify that man's resistance to seeing his problem for
what it is.
The
patient doesn't do for the
doctor what the
doctor does for the
patient.
Every
doctor knows
what that means: you can tell your
patient to stop smoking, eat less, get more exercise and deal with stress, but all too often the
patient just is not willing to pay the price in upsetting an established lifestyle, and chooses instead to continue in self - destructive habits.
Please enlighten me as to the 16 you are talking about - And more importantly how is it any of the employer's business
what prescriptions a
doctor writes for a female
patient?
In Ontario today,
doctors who decline to euthanize their
patients are required to provide
what is termed, in the Orwellian vocabulary of the culture of death, an «effective referral»: They are obliged, on pain of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled
patient to a
doctor of lighter conscience who will kill that
patient.
What were the rules after you had dragged out of the
doctor the fact that only a few
patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma diagnosed in its late stages, like Vee's, lived more than two years, and most were gone within a year?
«Being prepared for a medical visit and knowing
what questions to ask your
doctor allows
patients to be more hands - on in their recovery process, increasing their chances of overcoming injury,» said Dr. Montgomery.
It sucks that they don't work for everyone and I guarantee you that every nurse and
doctor who was working with your friend had a lot of sympathy for her because it is absolutely no fun to see your
patient in pain and to not be able to give her
what she wanted.
Would it have sucked possibly, absolutely, but there is a problem when things are being done against
patients wishes even if it's their best interest... this is where consent, and educating the
patient is important, instead of the attitude that so many
doctors have of «don't question me, I'm the
doctor and I know
what's best.»
Doctors offer pain relief because that's
what they would want for themselves and it's
what most
patients want, but if a
patient declines it that's fine too.
So you would be happier if
doctors did not offer choices, but required all their
patients to have epidurals because that's
what they would want?
Beyond
what textbooks teach,
doctors should be willing to look over each
patient's medical history - because past injuries or health concerns can impact anyone's pregnancy, not just a little person's.
In the country's 250 birth centers, midwives tend to take far more time with
patients than busy
doctors do and the emphasis is on the whole woman — everything from consultations on
what a woman should be eating during pregnancy to conversations about anxiety over delivery.
What it illustrates is that when
doctors say different things about the same thing,
patients start trying to figure out why.
I think
what you're saying is that
doctors (and other practitioners) don't always take the time to answer
patient questions, or don't answer them very well, and this can lead to
patients who are frustrated or mistrustful.
The ones that take the time to tell you
what they are going to do before they do it and answer questions will be known as extremely nice, considerate
doctors whereas in America, Britain etc it's just expected and if they refuse to answer questions their
patients think they aren't good
doctors.
Doctor: I tell our
patients that it is a major abdominal surgery, and it can take about two weeks to feel about 75 percent of
what they normally feel, and it can take a full six to eight weeks for full recovery.
What an amazing
doctor you must be for your
patients Melissa.
Patient choice and control are at the heart of
what we believe in and the NHS has been slow in giving
patients real clout, despite the fact that many people with chronic conditions know as much about their health as their
doctors do.
This means that the final decisions of
what medicine
patients use will now fall in the hands of the
patient's
doctor, and that an insurer can not override those decisions.
Finally he insisted that even though nurse,
doctors and
patients oppose his NHS reforms, Ed was «out of touch with
what's happening in Doncaster».
On
what exactly is wrong with the President, Adesina said: «Don't you know that the Hippocratic Oath even forbids a
doctor from speaking about the condition of his
patient except the
patient authorises it?
Mischa Sogut, a spokesman for Gottfried, said the guidelines for how seriously ill a
patient must be and
what hoops the
doctor must go through to prescribe the non-smokable marijuana will be developed through a regulatory process led by the state health commissioner.
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.
«GP partnerships are private partnership [s], but as a
patient that is not
what you care about - you want a good
doctor you can trust, and on the NHS, so free at the point of delivery,» the health secretary argued.
Very similar to
what I was saying the other day about national health insurance... the medical / insurance complex is so full of bad apples that the only way to restrain them is with fewer
patient visits and way fewer
doctors.
DeepMind is not planning to automate clinical decisions — such as
what treatments to give
patients — but says it wants to support
doctors by making predictions based on data that is too broad in scope for an individual to take in.
Overwhelmed
doctors — some of whom, Lantagne says, literally had no idea
what cholera was — began stacking
patients two to a bed, then on the floor.
Watson looks at records from a
patient, like
doctors» notes and lab test results, and gives opinions about
what treatment to pursue.
No
doctor wants to ignore an opportunity to save a
patient from infectious disease, yet much of
what is prescribed is probably unnecessary — and all of it feeds the spread of resistance genes in hospitals and apparently throughout the environment.
«
What we argue in our lawsuit is that the decision should be a
patient's with their
doctor,» says Frank Burroughs of the Abigail Alliance.
Data presented by
Doctors Without Borders also suggests that when it comes to surviving Ebola it does not seem to matter
what day in the course of the disease an Ebola
patient shows up at the clinic in west Africa.
When
patients check into a hospital, they expect
doctors there to fix
what ails them, but one in 20
patients seeking care at hospitals contract a health care — based infection.
The show doesn't simply provide overviews of various topics; it explores
what happens behind the scenes for both
doctors and
patients.
The
patient, of course, was miffed that she paid for lab work for the
doctor to learn
what she already knew.