| A thorough search for accessory spleens is an important step for patients who have hematologic disease. |
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| With some precautions and proper management, all patients of kala-azar could be cured with amphotericin B in a rural set-up. |
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| The handouts can be copied and placed in examination rooms or waiting rooms so patients can read about topics of personal interest. |
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| The patients are now quarantined in normal wards and recovering from fever, the Central News Agency reported. |
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| He was asked by various private surgeons to administer to their patients anesthesia by acupuncture. |
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| It is important to ask about over the counter medicines such as cold tablets and sleep aids, which patients and families may forget to mention. |
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| Teaching and non-teaching patients alike said that they were willing to be seen by students. |
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| Charging patients who fail to keep hospital appointments could cut hospital waiting lists. |
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| I have also worked on patients during three LVAD implant operations and one quadruple coronary by-pass operation. |
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| Currently, nearly 40 patients positive for HIV are quarantined on their own floor. |
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| Five of twenty-one patients who reported stool washiness had diarrhea, but only 2 patients had serious symptoms. |
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| The majority of patients were baseball players, along with three gymnasts and three javelin throwers. |
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| I left academia because I was frustrated having so many patients go blind from these terrible diseases. |
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| Foot infections in diabetic patients are commonly polymicrobial and may involve aerobes and anaerobes. |
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| The buzzers would go off in the night and when the nurses came to see what was wrong they would find the patients fast asleep. |
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| He said the dispute had been long-running and a cause of concern to staff and patients alike. |
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| Most patients having laser ciliary body ablation need to continue drug treatment. |
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| Cancer patients recovering in hospital will no longer have to wait on the postman for their get well soon cards. |
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| Three cases involved a septic knee joint, and two patients developed subcutaneous abscesses. |
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| We recently heard that absorbable hemostatic agents intended to be left in patients have been recalled by the US Food and Drug Administration. |
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| Stepping back a generation, doctors were familiar with hospital wards full of patients succumbing to sepsis in the pre-penicillin era. |
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| The degree of anticoagulation for patients taking warfarin was also recorded. |
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| Whenever demented patients travel, it is safe to assume their confusion will worsen for the duration of the trip. |
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| However, more patients required accident and emergency or out of hours care. |
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| She also provides advice for patients with medical conditions who have to watch their diet. |
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| Protecting patients from acquiring a waterborne infection is key to decreasing the potential for infection. |
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| They adhered to the policy for almost a year, during which they observed an unprecedented rise in the number of patients with quinsy. |
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| Supporting this statement the authors quote a report of five patients published in 1983 by Miller and coworkers. |
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| Each of these patients had diseases known to predispose to heterotopic calcification including scleroderma, acromegaly, and diabetes mellitus. |
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| Overall, the risk for meningococcal disease in these patients is 8,000 times that of normals. |
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| Family physicians should feel free to provide specific advice to patients and families wrestling with these difficult decisions. |
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| We included patients with multiple myeloma but excluded other haematological malignancies. |
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| And we all have some creative, malingering patients worthy of an Academy Award. |
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| They are degrading to workers and patients alike and they should be stopped. |
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| Improved trunk stability may be achieved through training of the lower abdominals for patients in all phases. |
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| All seven patients with diverticula of the CS who were not treated with catheter or surgical ablation eventually died. |
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| If patients have a less than 50 percent reduction in wart size, surgical excision or other ablative therapy should be initiated. |
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| Six months after the procedure, these patients had an average weight loss of 5 pounds and a 3-inch decrease in the waistline. |
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| I was the walk-in doctor at my clinic today, meaning that I saw all the patients who didn't have scheduled appointments. |
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| Most patients were content with their care, the determining feature of discontent being a doctor seen as rude, abrupt, or unsympathetic. |
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| Also, there are no other suitable times for input on prevention of relapse before patients are discharged. |
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| These patients were newly quadriplegic patients and had sustained new postoperative root injuries. |
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| It's not only patients who feel that the days when doctors always knew best are over. |
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| In Wang's ward in the Haematology Division, only half of patients with cancer may survive. |
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| The majority of ambulatory older patients who visit primary care physicians are without severe disability. |
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| Respondents were asked to name reasons why patients had not reduced, if they had not done so. |
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| Ten more patients like this simply increases the capacity for those making the decisions to make errors in their judgment. |
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| Therefore, the possibility of neurosyphilis should be considered in patients with early or late latent syphilis. |
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| The British Thoracic Society says there is one lung specialist for 119,000 patients in England and Wales, a situation they say is very worrying. |
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| Clinical trials on patients are vital to the translation of new research into clinical practice, but they are in decline. |
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| So far, the clinical trials have focused on patients with arthritis, wasting syndrome and high cholesterol. |
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| They may believe they can now handle alcohol, but it needs to be made clear to patients and carers that on no account should drinking be resumed. |
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| Severely jaundiced patients are the ones more likely to exhibit renal failure, haemorrhages and cardiovascular collapse. |
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| Some jaundiced patients may complain only of yellow eyes because they notice the color there. |
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| A study in Denmark showed that patients frequently referred to specialists with unexplained symptoms are exposed to extensive surgery. |
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| There has also been an increased incidence of atrophic gastritis and achlorhydria in patients with gluten sensitivity. |
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| It wounds our egos when patients leave us, no matter how unjustified their reasons. |
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| We are happy about this international acknowledgment of the quality of our services and are proud to be able to help patients from Europe. |
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| Cataract patients also tend to be deficient in vitamin A and the carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin. |
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| Emaciated patients suffering from chronic sprue can also take buttermilk preferably before noon. |
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| This gives an average score of 9 for normals and 5 for Alzheimer's dementia patients with relatively little overlap. |
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| Persuading patients to dig into their own pockets is going to demand some intense salesmanship. |
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| Results often go awry if patients use flawed techniques, which prevent the medicine from reaching the airway passage. |
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| Most patients with hip fracture require surgical reduction and internal fixation. |
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| The treatments were typically instituted because the patients suffered from malformed cervixes which blocked the entry of sperm into the uterus. |
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| Second nonocular malignancies develop with increased incidence in patients with hereditary retinoblastoma. |
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| Two of the five patients sustained complete remission of symptoms for more than a year prior to the study. |
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| Most patients eventually recover spontaneously, but symptoms can persist for six to 24 months. |
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| Pituitary irradiation can induce remission of disease in more than one half of patients with recurrence after surgery. |
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| Doctors, nurses and patients alike have a right to expect rather more than that. |
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| It also warns of the dangers of transferring patients when beds are not available. |
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| I do not deny that there are patients with chronic abdominal pain and altered bowel habit that defy analysis. |
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| The trial randomized 1,033 patients in 27 countries to early surgery or conservative treatment. |
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| For patients who do not respond to conservative treatment, surgery should be considered. |
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| In patients who have swallowed a sharp, radiolucent object, such as a fish bone, direct laryngoscopy should be performed. |
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| Using chemical glow sticks for tiny lights, they squeeze between patients in litters. |
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| Mrs Greenwood recalls hearing the wails and screams of patients in the night and her first death in the wards. |
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| They can be given to patients who are suffering with heart abnormalities and taken home to record information for diagnosis. |
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| Most patients with lower limb arterial disease are treated conservatively and do not reach the stage at which surgical intervention is needed. |
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| Should the BMJ ask patients who write criticisms of doctors to sign a waiver permitting the doctor to respond? |
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| Patients reported numerous problems in communicating their pain to nurses, and perhaps as a result, patients were very conservatively medicated. |
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| After one month placebo-treated patients were crossed over to yohimbine and yohimbine patients continued in the same manner. |
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| It has been widely hailed as a wonder drug by many patients and specialists in skin care, often making a dramatic difference to acne sufferers. |
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| Many doctors suggest that their mite-allergic patients use washable area rugs rather than wall-to-wall carpet. |
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| We assessed the rate of patients undergoing endoscopy as well as the time to first relapse. |
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| The relative mortality within one year was 3.1 times higher in patients than in controls. |
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| They also found that patients who consumed high levels of red meat combined with other meat products had a similar risk. |
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| In the two decades since then, some of the hospitals have closed, and the number of long-stay patients has reduced dramatically. |
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| Healthcare professionals can address the psychological needs by having patients remind themselves daily why they are quitting smoking. |
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| Violence, offensive sexual gestures or behaviour, or threatening or abusive language could get patients barred. |
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| All patients who had ambulatory surgery during data collection times were asked to take part in the study. |
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| Instead there was a ragbag of patients from all strata of society being wheeled around looking rather forlorn. |
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| Patients with prostate cancer tend to have lower free-total ratios than do patients with benign disease. |
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| Improving the quality of ambulatory care for patients with lung cancer is challenging. |
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| He highlighted that Waterford Regional is an acute hospital with patients often having an average stay of five or six days. |
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| Should patients have a choice to base their decision on whether or not to take a drug by weighing the risks against the benefits? |
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| Many patients have at least one recurrence of disease activity during the course of the taper. |
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| At this dosage, 80 percent of patients will experience clinical remission or improvement within four weeks. |
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| This method works only with insurance plans that use coinsurance, where patients pay a portion of their bills until they reach a maximum. |
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| Caretakers and physicians often project sensations of hunger and thirst onto severely demented patients with poor oral intake. |
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| We'll get it back after our first appointment but it's still a lot of money for NHS exempt patients to have to find. |
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| He was forced apologise to several patients after admitting the company had failed in its duty of care to them. |
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| Although privateers are raking it in from the Darent Valley deal, patients have not been so fortunate. |
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| The aging process, or Presbyopia, causes the amplitude of accommodation to decrease in patients over 40 years. |
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| Often patients fail to turn up without any warning and it means their slot, which could have been taken by someone else, goes to waste. |
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| We examined clinicians' communication according to how patients experienced it. |
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| Six patients had clots leading to strokes or transient ischemic attacks after the procedure. |
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| Lithium may be responsible for the reputed benefit of certain spring waters to patients with mental disease. |
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| Four patients responded despite extensive metastases to liver, brain, skin, and adrenals, with survival of 4 to 6 months. |
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| Imagine letting patients out into the fresh air after one day, having just cut a whacking great hole into their stomachs. |
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| The authors conclude that methotrexate is safe and effective for maintaining remission in patients with Crohn's disease. |
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| Drugs reduce the symptoms and prevent the condition worsening while some patients are fitted with pacemakers. |
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| Being aware of this very substantial fall in hysterectomies is important and may be helpful in counselling patients before referral. |
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| This case also illustrates the therapeutic dilemma if surgery fails in patients with achalasia. |
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| All patients had significant increases in autoantibodies against neural antigens. |
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| In addition, psychotherapy can help patients learn new coping styles and interpersonal habits. |
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| The report also said many GPs had difficulty identifying which patients needed urgent referral to hospital cancer services. |
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| In a row of glass cases, waxwork tableaux of Victorian surgeons are shown lopping off limbs while their patients are forcibly restrained. |
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| The authors assessed patients who were attending anticoagulation clinics in five Canadian teaching hospitals. |
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| Occasionally, patients may present with rapid onset of hoarseness of voice similar to that encountered in acute viral laryngitis. |
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| What many patients experience is an awakening of emotions which they have never had, rather than a repetition of phantasies from the past. |
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| Now I get referrals from medical doctors who have seen their patients lose weight or quit smoking. |
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| They were isolated from the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease more than 15 years ago. |
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| One hundred patients were recruited at the gynaecology clinic of a teaching hospital. |
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| The half-lives of the metabolites but not bupropion itself are increased in patients with alcoholic liver disease. |
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| The technique is used to help patients suffering from backache, headaches and panic attacks, plus a range of chronic diseases. |
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| As a result, many patients who have had a mastectomy will now also receive postoperative radiotherapy. |
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| Most ambulatory patients with alcohol dependence can be detoxified quickly and safely without the use of psychoactive drugs. |
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| Why are patients discharged from hospitals before they are fully recovered? |
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| A radical alternative to this approach, one that would expose patients to the full price of drugs, is reference pricing. |
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| These therapies involve turning patients at various angles to improve gas exchange, mobilization of secretions, and lymphatic drainage. |
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| Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is no more effective than sham therapy in patients with lateral epicondylitis. |
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| During the latent stage of syphilis, skin lesions resolve, and patients are asymptomatic. |
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| None of the patients had endometrial hyperplasia or an underlying malignancy. |
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| It is through small bribes of chocolate, coffee, cognac and the like that patients are able to assure themselves of quality care. |
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| Yet he advises patients to bear with it because the depression will ultimately lift and sleep problems diminish. |
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| Then they repopulated these cells with mitochondria prepared from the platelets of PD patients or healthy control subjects. |
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| For most patients partial remission of symptoms is the best that they can hope for. |
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| To do otherwise would be to betray the trust that our patients place in us as advocates on their behalf. |
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| It seems that some patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from receiving chicken blood rather than human blood. |
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| We hypothesized that patients would recover more quickly from surgery if postoperative pain was decreased or eliminated. |
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| Yet, despite all this activity, the subject remains a cause of frustration for doctors and patients alike. |
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| Leveraging this effort should reap rewards for managers, professionals, and patients alike. |
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| TGI was present in all 8 patients studied who had goitrous Graves' disease. |
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| Only 26 patients had side effects that were serious enough to require a dosage reduction. |
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| Family physicians frequently see patients who have abdominal pain and altered bowel habits. |
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| The role of interventional radiology in the care of patients with cancer continues to expand. |
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| Adverse side effects included constipation, nausea, asthenia, and dizziness in 6.2 per cent more patients than those taking placebo. |
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| These patients have aerophagy, and repeated swallowing of air may be obvious during the consultation. |
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| Our subjects are typical examples of asthmatic patients requesting medical assistance in an urban emergency center. |
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| Some asthmatic patients perceive the severity of their disease rather poorly. |
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| We selected a group of asthmatic patients in two neighbouring counties who had variable asthma so we could measure change. |
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| The disease may have been transmitted to 1056 patients through surgical instruments, however, the likelihood of transmission is remote. |
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| Circulating concentrations of the cytokine tumour necrosis factor are increased in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure. |
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| Five hundred and sixteen other patients who also had surgery there have been warned of the remote possibility of exposure. |
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| Somewhat sheepishly, I reflected on how often I had felt that patients were a little sycophantic in their remarks at the end of a consultation. |
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| These patients should be treated with a beta blocker or class I antiarrhythmic drug. |
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| Counseling patients at increased risk to avoid excess sun exposure is recommended. |
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| In patients who are unfit to have radical surgery, radiotherapy may be administered to the inguinal lymph nodes. |
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| The early patients were patients undergoing surgery on the visual areas of the brain for removal of tumors and so forth. |
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| The transeptal puncture is necessary in certain patients with severe cardiac pathologies. |
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| Transfusions or exchange transfusions are also recommended for patients with severe hypoxia. |
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| In one study, arsenic trioxide was given to patients who relapsed after achieving remission with ATRA and chemotherapy. |
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| In one study, ethnic minority patients were treated with less analgesia and assigned lower pain ratings than Caucasian patients. |
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| Some patients may also have an increased number of white blood cells and platelets. |
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| Having met some of his patients who have been given a new lease of life with replacement intra-ocular lenses, they simply radiate happiness. |
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| Numerous herbs may affect blood glucose levels and should not be used in patients with diabetes mellitus. |
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| These surgical patients would receive our routine antibiotic prophylaxis as well as the study drug. |
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| The patients underwent three unnecessary laparotomies before the correct diagnosis was made. |
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| The proscription against physicians talking about themselves with patients comes from several different traditions. |
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| Five patients had an initial rise of CD4 and CD8 cell counts during the first week of illness, followed by a fall of both cell counts. |
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| The use of a systematic clinical protocol reduced hospital costs and length of stay and improved transfer of patients within the hospital. |
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| Hyperthyroidism causes a pattern of hyperpigmentation similar to that in Addison's disease, especially in patients with darker complexions. |
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| Because of problems with radiotherapy machines, some patients were having to wait 12 weeks for treatment after first seeing the radiotherapist. |
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| And aftercare was discussed in a way that patients and their relatives could understand. |
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| The drug's effect of preventing cellular adherence might be an important mechanism for curing the patients with cerebral thrombosis. |
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| Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment had shorter survival times overall. |
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| Dr Arnmon addressed ambulatory surgery for patients with diabetes, saying that a tight schedule is never a reason to perform a procedure. |
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| Three additional autopsies were performed on patients who had had their surgical bypass performed at other institutions. |
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| I'm told optimism also helps patients recover from coronary bypass surgery. |
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| There are two main routes by which aggrieved patients may seek redress for unsatisfactory health care. |
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| It is also important to note that most patients reported reduced use rather than abstinence. |
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| It is important to note that most patients with migraine do not have an associated aura. |
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| Malignancy or benignancy was established if patients had definitive pathology of the lesion in question. |
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| For patients who have an acute ischemic stroke, the opportunity to limit the neurological damage is very time sensitive. |
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| Once patients are medically stable, they should be transferred to a stroke rehabilitation unit if further rehabilitation is required. |
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| Twenty-five patients experienced adverse drug reactions, but only 12 of them needed drug modifications. |
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| For those patients with reactive airway disease, pre-medication should be considered. |
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| Fewer patients were asymptomatic during moderate and strenuous sports activities. |
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| Firstly, testing in asymptomatic patients differs fundamentally from testing in patients with symptoms. |
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| Treatment should also be considered in asymptomatic patients who may be a source of infection to others. |
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| After the first year, patients should be monitored annually even if they are asymptomatic. |
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| The majority of the patients are asymptomatic and the lesion is diagnosed incidentally on autopsy. |
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| Some patients have asystole from the onset of arrest and are unsuitable for defibrillation by the ambulance crew or bystanders. |
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| A proportion of patients are unsuitable for defibrillation because their initial arrhythmia is asystole or pulseless electrical activity. |
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| There will be more beds, despite the staffing difficulties, but at the moment what is clogging up the system is long-term patients in acute beds. |
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| By this time, conscious patients were not acutely distressed, although some were anxious or scared. |
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| Hospital chiefs are so aware of MRSA they are beginning to test patients before they are admitted to hospital. |
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| Above all the health service should operate in a way that keeps patients out of acute hospitals, thus minimising costs. |
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| The patients are then seen by the physician who would prescribe the appropriate adjunct therapy and be available for further support. |
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| Notes for all child patients have been put onto computer to allow instant access upon admission. |
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| Finally, it is important to recognize and value the expertise of patients and their families. |
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| The standard errors of the model estimates were adjusted for the clustering of patients within hospitals. |
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| To the fast-swelling ranks of ataraxic drugs, another was added last week for patients with relatively mild emotional disorders. |
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| In contrast, those patients that picked themselves up and put the incident behind them were found to have readjusted to life at a quicker rate. |
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| But, following a review of the situation over the weekend, the wards were given the all clear and started readmitting patients on Sunday. |
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| Elderly patients should not be treated with tertiary amines because of the greater anticholinergic effects of these agents. |
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| For patients with acid reflux, bulimia, or alcoholism, antacids or acid-reducing agents may be given to help reduce tooth erosion. |
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| Medically stable patients with intramural hematoma usually are managed conservatively with bowel rest. |
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| Less severely demented patients and black and Hispanic patients were more likely to stay in the home. |
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| It also said that nursing homes should be used to allow patients be discharged from acute hospitals. |
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| If patients required observation or further testing they were admitted to hospital. |
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| The high prevalence of fructose intolerance found among patients in our study reaffirms previous studies. |
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| There are costs for using Patientline, and details are provided to patients when they are admitted to hospital. |
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| Is it ethical to waste the time of patients and staff and taxpayers ' money? |
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| This review examines current approaches in the workup and treatment of patients suffering from airway impairment. |
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| In severe problem patients a tracheotomy or surgical opening above the Adams apple is needed. |
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| However, since then, patients needing urgent acute surgical care have had to travel 15 miles to the nearest hospital in Cashel. |
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| In particular, delusional patients showed higher scores in agitation and anxiety. |
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| Arrangements would be put in place to make sure he was kept away from patients who did not wish to see him. |
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| We then compared the total numbers of patients on each day of each lunar month. |
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| Cholesterol embolisation occurs in patients with generalised atheroma, arising as a consequence of arteriosclerosis. |
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| If the plans go ahead relatives and friends of acute patients from North Norfolk face a potential round trip of 60 miles to visit. |
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| The patients were randomly divided into four groups of approximately 12 patients per group. |
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| I noted how a number of these patients experienced a personal transformation or an awakening following their consultation. |
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| These include chemoprophylaxis for patients with latent infection, and strategies for chemotherapy of dually infected individuals. |
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| Sometimes one nurse has to take care of two critically ill patients at the same time. |
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| Spontaneous remissions often occur within twelve months, but many patients continue to have symptoms for years. |
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| Thus, comparisons of treated patients with not treated patients may spuriously imply that drug treatments are actually harmful. |
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| The new films ultimately could quicken the recovery of burn victims and patients with skin ulcers and bedsores, the team asserts. |
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| Eight patients with acquired agraphia were studied using the same writing tests and were compared with normal and brain-damaged controls. |
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| This meeting was to discuss the views of patients and professionals on what to do in a crisis and to negotiate agreed solutions. |
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| In addition to the reduction in daily pain intensity, the patients were able to obtain better sleep with fewer night awakenings. |
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| Joe ran over to the clinic to cancel his patients and rearrange his vacation schedule, and picked me up some breakfast on the way back. |
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| Consecutive patients whose referral letters gave no reason for exclusion were considered provisionally eligible. |
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| After keyhole surgery patients nutrition is rapidly restored giving them the strength to heal and recover. |
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| More than half of cancer patients requiring an urgent referral are having to wait longer than two months. |
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| We selected patients by examining all referral letters to the hospital's gastroenterology outpatient clinics and open access endoscopy service. |
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| Twenty-four of the dead had been patients of a long-term acute care facility. |
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| Clinical trials with PPC are ongoing in patients with alcoholic liver disease. |
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| Acute pancreatitis should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with acute abdomen. |
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| Was the medical establishment just trying to keep patients drugged and tractable? |
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| Users can choose to have air ambulances pick up patients at ambulance exchange points. |
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| He announced that nurses and midwives would also be trained to counsel patients and administer the drug. |
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| Another complication suffered by these patients is bladder atony, in which the muscles of the bladder lose their tone. |
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| Referral to a urologist is indicated for patients with a stone greater than 5 mm in size. |
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| All patients in the asthma group reported a history of atopy, and four patients reported a history of exercise-induced bronchospasm. |
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| It also can cause rebound hypertension upon sudden discontinuation, so it should not be used in patients in whom compliance may be an issue. |
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| Although alcoholic liver disease remains a controversial indication for transplantation, carefully selected patients do well. |
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| Liver transplantation for patients with alcoholic liver disease raises issues and controversies not seen with other indications. |
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| Surgery for morbid obesity is usually the last-resort intervention in patients who have tried all other weight-reduction treatments. |
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| The people who make the decisions are not concerned about the poor patients with fractured legs and hips who are on traction and unable to walk. |
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| It was one way to lighten up the patients in the hospital, kibitz a little bit. |
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| We based this review on our extensive clinical experience in managing patients in a dedicated tinea capitis clinic at a teaching hospital. |
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| All patients had a lumbar puncture to obtain cerebrospinal fluid, to exclude other causes of coma. |
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| He revisits a squatter camp outside Johannesburg, interviews a traditional faith healer and meets patients and staff at a clinic in Rustenburg. |
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| He was often handed the difficult and recalcitrant patients by his bosses and he hadn't failed one yet. |
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| Correlation of radiographic evidence of degenerative joint changes and symptoms described by patients vary by joint. |
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| Some patients have no regular access to social activities or talking therapy. |
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| In fact, the capillary luminal diameter has been increased in the skin and nerves of patients with diabetes, even in the presence of neuropathy. |
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| Such patients might be trading in the stock market, and might be the type to jump out of the window, if share prices were to plummet sharply. |
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| Facilities for ear, nose and throat, audiology and dermatology patients and a new renal dialysis unit are also included. |
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| Forty patients with SAD were randomized to five weeks of bright light or fluoxetine. |
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| Only about a quarter to a half of these patients are known to their doctors. |
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| Researchers are focusing on cancer patients who have had lumpectomies because this procedure is easier to correct than mastectomy. |
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| A receptionist, who is finding out what patients think about the surgery's new opening hours, approaches him. |
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| I tell my patients twins are not twice the fun. One is hard enough. Two at a time is a killer for some people. |
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| As the batteries run low, patients simply strap on a power pack that recharges the batteries via radio waves beamed through their skin. |
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| Unfortunately, neither doctors nor patients have fully adopted the view that just limiting weight gain is success. |
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| The climb to the top of the 450 ft sea stack was to raise money and awareness of the plight facing patients with kidney problems. |
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| In a previous report of Lyme-associated extrapyramidal features in 5 patients, 5 all of the patients exhibited akinesia, pains, and rigidity. |
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| In particular, patients should be advised to reduce their intake of processed foods such as luncheon meat and fast foods. |
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| These patients require the same attention and care as those who meet all the criteria. |
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| We help patients decide if a problem requires medical attention or even hospital care. |
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| Many Tourette's patients also suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, or attention deficit disorder. |
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| For the past 20 years, kind-hearted Pat has dedicated her spare time to cheering up patients in Salisbury. |
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| The patients were rehabilitated in a boot with a heel lift and were permitted full weightbearing as soon as tolerated. |
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| Many patients are asymptomatic, and the tumor is discovered only as an incidental radiographic or postmortem finding. |
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| Twenty-four percent of patients had platelet counts above the upper range of normal. |
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| White cell counts among the patients who have died have been up to 10 times greater than is normally seen with serious infections. |
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| Three patients had low platelet counts before discharge from the first hospitalization. |
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| He actually exhorts his patients to eat more by increasing their portions of vegetables, fruits, beans, and other high-fiber, low-calorie foods. |
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| Clinicians and their patients need evidence based treatment strategies that produce complete sustained remissions and improve quality of life. |
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| In patients with pulmonary hypertension, more frequent chest radiographs to assess catheter position may be indicated. |
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| They may also accept patients on a temporary basis while they are resident in the practice area. |
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| The association feared that the estimated 10 000 UK patients taking primidone had not been given enough time to withdraw from the drug safely. |
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| Although some clinicians opt to follow asymptomatic patients conservatively with serial sonography, the wisdom of this approach is questioned. |
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| It is the largest clinical trial to be carried out in patients with early ovarian cancer. |
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| Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. |
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| Physical therapy is directed at preventing atrophy and contractures, and is particularly necessary in patients with calcinosis and muscle involvement. |
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| Herrera is seeking to have the city reimbursed for its care of indigent patients it claims were dumped there by Nevada. |
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| Yet these specialists still rated the patient with the poorest prognosis as more suitable than the patients with alcoholic liver disease or a criminal record. |
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| As I got better, I also got curious about what happened to other patients like me. |
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| All patients can do is trust that the strangers on their health care team are competent and caring enough to do their best to help correct whatever ails the patient. |
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| Although the evidence is limited, these patients are often treated with warfarin to prevent progression, especially if remedial surgery is not possible. |
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| The patients were surveyed by mail or by follow-up telephone calls. |
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| This review explains how general practitioners can approach the first level of diagnosis and warn patients about what lies ahead after referral to a specialist. |
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| He was accused of deliberately increasing the dosage of opiates used as pain relief in order to end the lives of patients who had left him money in their wills. |
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| These patients may require specialist gastroenterological referral. |
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| As part of our calling to family practice, we like to encourage our patients to be planters as well as reapers of the harvest that grows in each community. |
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