Sentences with phrase «when doctor and patient»

Problems arise in so many situations when doctor and patient are not on the same wavelength.

If something feels off during your appointment, don't ignore it When a doctor and patient sit together in a room, they are not simply trading facts.

A new Cochrane Review published shows that when doctors and patients are encouraged to discuss the need for prescribing antibiotics for acute respiratory infections jointly, fewer are prescribed.

For example, biased outcomes are more likely when doctors and patients don't have an established relationship, the medical guidelines are ambiguous or decisions must be made under more extreme time pressures.

Not exact matches

Ready with cash and either Health Canada authorizations or doctors» notes saying their patients report relief when using marijuana, they walk up to a counter inside Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), one of the city's longest - running medical pot dispensaries.

When doctors are on ZocDoc's platform, they can immediately list that new availability, and potentially, book a new patient instantly.

«The client fills it out with their doctor, and when the doctor signs it, it becomes a doctor's standing order,» she said — it becomes part of the patient's medical record, and medical professionals are bound to follow it.

I'm confident that when you and I speak again in the next 12 to 18 months that this discussion about why do I have to keep filling out the same patient form every time I go to the doctor's office on a clipboard will be gone.

After all, patients and doctors who choose Valeant's drugs when an identical generic version is available are already volunteering to pay extra for the brand name.

Doctors will be kept informed with how often and when their patients are taking their medicine and those with ongoing health issues will be able to have things such as blood pressure and sugar levels monitored remotely.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

When a doctor meets with a patient, they ask thoughtful questions and seek to fully understand the problem before making a diagnosis.

It's customary there for doctors when they see evidence of terminal cancer in a person, not to tell them the truth but to tell them that everything is okay because they feel that it's better to make the patient feel good and not upset.

I suppose talking to the dying about their families is all well and good if the dying are all confirmed Christians, but I believe it was C.S. Lewis who articulately bemoaned the friends and doctors who tell a dying patient the classic «everything is going to be all right» when from a Biblical viewpoint, everything will not be all right.

I work in the operating room, and have seen patients screaming at the doctors when they let their loved ones die.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

When the Canadian Supreme Court conjured in its governing Charter the right to receive euthanasia for virtually any diagnosed condition that causes «irremediable suffering» — a term that includes «psychological pain,» disability, and suffering that is deemed irremediable because alleviating treatment is refused by the patient — I hoped Canadian doctors would revolt.

Fortunately, my doctor is close enough to me in age that he knows that there is not necessarily a cure for everything that ails the human body, and therefore knows when to leave a patient alone — no tubes, no desperate surgery, no heroic measures.

the doctor was attempting to protect her patients during a time when the... i believe attorny general whom was anti-choice was investigating clinics and subpeoning their medical records which would have exposed these young ladies to harm by the religious community.

I think it is interesting that doctors often recommend bananas and potatoes to their patients when they have high blood pressure.

When the Make - A-Wish Foundation came calling and asked Lucas for his wish, he requested a food truck to feed the doctors and nurses who cared for him along with the pediatric cancer patients that had become like family.

The new official statement is adapted from a concept developed by Courson, along with Bert Mandelbaum, MD, and Lawrence J. Lemak, MD, using a terms common in both sports and medicine: coaches and athletes call time outs to gather a team together and discuss game strategies or to call a play, while, in medicine, doctors take a time out immediately before every surgery when all operating room participants stop to verify the procedure, patient identity, correct site and side.

When patients demand a perfect baby or else, they have essentially drawn the line at a 100 % C - section rate and doctors are merely attempting to respond to that.

Washington, DC — A new committee opinion from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) addresses the controversy of elective cesarean delivery, using it as an example of how doctors can ethically help patients make decisions about surgical treatment when there is a lack of firm evidence for or against such surgery.

I am a doctor and will carry your story with me when I manage and advise my patients with a newborn.

Doctor: Gives a long explanation of why this is not necessarily true, starting with the point that the MWs are not affiliated with the hospital and so when you do transfer, they have to treat you like a patient off the street.

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.»

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You may advocate and explain a very specific, ultra-safe version of co-sleeping to your patient, but all the extra safety measures are lost when your patient tells their friend simply «our doctor says co-sleeping is fine!»

Mostly those two paragraphs were my point in responding, that when doctors are ready to discuss care with their patients in a respectful, thorough manner, those patients will not feel like they're being treated like a bunch of morons and told to do it this way because they were told so or get out.

But imagine you're on a tight schedule to see X amount of patients a day (where X is a higher number than you'd like) and then you get one who insists on knowing allllll the details about everything, even when the details aren't necessary to understanding the course of action the doctor is recommending.

The doctor will come in when they need to, the nurses are tending to many patients and must leave periodically.

You see, as self employed private doctors, we only get income when we have patients, and of course, there are less patients in December.

I breastfed my three boys, all up to 2 yrs old They are rarely ill, our doctor wonders whether we are still patients, don't understand when people talk about ear infections, gastric problems, wind, colic, reflux and amongst many 100's more things that breastfeeding helps to ommit.

The latter condition would rule out voluntary euthanasia, where another person such as a doctor could administer medication to cause death when the patient had clearly and autonomously requested it, even when the patient is unable to end her or his own life.

«Our doctor patient ratio is even more lump sided when you get to the rural and deprived areas of our country.

Laurence Buckman, chairman of the British Medical Association's GPs committee, said: «It is a fact that patients are annoyed when they can not see their normal doctor and I think this is more likely to make them complain about the care they receive.

Lawsky he'll be working with the insurance industry in the coming weeks to craft a bill to close some of the loopholes, and require that insurance companies, doctors, and other health care providers disclose to patients in advance when a provider may fall out of their insurance policy network.

WASHINGTON - New York's junior senator in Washington is calling on the federal government to develop stricter guidelines regarding how and when doctors should prescribe pain medications to their patients.

They argued that, when possible, doctors should focus on the likelihood and magnitude of benefit, treating the sickest patients first.

When she teaches medical students and doctors about treating menopausal symptoms, she brings up three questions to ask patients.

«But patients deserve to know when their doctor's recommendation is backed up with good evidence and when it isn't.»

«Part of it is likely the kind of images that are available in the culture,» she speculates, such as «the lone scientist with the microscope or a computer and not with another person, whereas when you think about a doctor, you think about a doctor with a patient.»

If a bacterial population can become antibiotic - resistant even when only a small number of individuals have the appropriate genetic mutations, doctors who collect and analyze small bacterial specimens from patients may underestimate just how resistant the infection is as a whole, Collins notes.

Doctors and patients should take these statistics into account when treating cases of major depression, says Dr. Trivedi, Professor of Psychiatry and holder of the Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health and the Julie K. Hersh Chair for Depression Research and Clinical Care.

One day, doctors might be able to insert such devices into a cancer patient to tally how many times a cell divides and flag when to shut the cancer down.

To curb this, Llewelyn and colleagues urge doctors to drop the «complete the course» rhetoric and instead advise patients to stop when they feel better.

• When it comes to defining provider quality, most Americans tend to focus on certain aspects of quality relating to doctor - patient interactions and doctors» personality traits, rather than the effectiveness of the care provided or the patient's own health outcomes.

When the doctor admitted to Ginger, then 44, that Werner patients generally did not live past 48, she vowed to him, and now to me, «I'm going to outlive that, I'm going to beat that.

As time lapses, many colonoscopy patients become less and less likely to recall when and where they last had the procedure performed; who the doctor was who performed it; whether polyps were found, and, if so, the number and size of those polyps, according to new study results presented at the 2015 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.