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Patients coming out panic stricken are spreading the contamination. They're gonna run. They're scared and hurt and want to get away.

Patients can fax their prescription over to the UP pharmacy and we will be able to send the prescriptions to their homes for a small fee. With greater funds in the future, we plan to expand the BBC Health Clinic facility and provide a limited pharmacy operation there based on demand.

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

Patients are still getting harassed by local and state law enforcement.

Patients aren't doctors. Patients don't have medical knowledge. It's (the doctor's) job to find out what's wrong with you. It's their responsibility, not the patient's.

Patients and physicians need options to address early to moderate stage disc degeneration, ... Currently, many of these patients find themselves in a holding pattern, in limbo between prolonged, marginally effective conservative care and major surgical intervention. Our hope is that the Wallis device will provide relief to those patients and stop them from progressing toward total disc replacement or fusion.

Patients always have their option to choose either ambulatory surgical center or the hospital for outpatient care. Their surgeon would work with the patient in determining where to schedule the procedure.

Patient care volunteers work with the team, of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other disciplines. There are 24 hours of training required and medical and background checks because they go into the homes to provide practical and emotional support for the patients and families.

Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.

Our objective with this project is to build some facilities that will improve the safety and comfort of our patients and employees, and make room for our expansion of services.

Our opportunity here is to provide our patients with all of their medications as a full-service pharmacy.

Our neurosciences planning committee, made up of physicians and staff members, is doing an excellent job, charting ways to enhance the continuum of quality care offered to stroke patients and others with neurological problems,

People may have temporary lapses from the sleeping pills. They may have motor and coordination (problems). Sometimes, elderly patients may fall at night.

Surgery is still the most common treatment in the U.S. because patients aren't aware that they have choices.

That affects practitioners who don't accept assignment because patients will go somewhere else or just not get the device because they cannot afford the out-of-pocket expense.

Tests conducted by one of the doctors at our establishment determined that the six patients suffered from pulmonary infections, from pneumonia.

My patients joke with me. They ask me, 'Doctor, am I living longer yet?' I say, 'I don't know, but you're living better.' The goal in our groups is not to pretend you're going to make your cancer go away but to live well in the face of cancer.

My patients have been very supportive, ... Because I had been dressing quite androgynously for some time, 99.9 per cent of them didn't even comment. One of them asked me if I'd had a haircut.

My patients call that the prison of positive thinking. There is no truth at all to the idea that if you get sad, angry or frightened about cancer that you're giving in to it and allowing the cancer to grow.

Lipitor is one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our era, and millions of patients have used it to lower their cholesterol. This court decision is consistent with the fundamental principle that patent laws exist to support and encourage medical innovators, not undermine them.

It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that wasn't necessarily directly pertinent to the patient and the physician. These labels need to be reclaimed for patients and physicians.

I think people have been having trouble for three or up to four weeks of symptoms, and that's a little unusual. We're seeing people complaining of persistent problems. Something that's been described by some of our patients is that after the infection is over, the lungs stay irritated and reactive.

Joint Pro is a product that we are confident will do very well in the marketplace, and the assets we've acquired include formulas for upcoming, related products that will make this an excellent line for us. We've spoken to a number of physicians who carried Joint Pro and they have patients who consistently ask for the product.

Justice is the hardest precept for the individual physician to deal with. It asks how to best allocate resources fairly so that patients with similar situations get treated the same way.

It is critical that while protecting the ability of pharmacists to step away, patients are not abandoned.

Maybe it could extend to stroke or other pathological patients who have an increased incidence of falls and an inability to control locomotion.

Management has cut staff, brought in temp workers and slashed our wages and benefits, ... We deal with extremely sick people in need of the cleanest, most sterile environment and food made to their exact nutritional needs. This is a not a fast-food type of setting. When you work in a hospital, it requires a special skill set -- we need to know our jobs or else the patients will suffer. It becomes tougher every day to encourage our dedicated co-workers to stick around, because of the lack of a contract, and the cuts to our wages and benefits.

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

We now know that we could and should have done a better job in putting together our application package, ... We let patients down, and for that, I am truly sorry.

We now have a total of six patients being treated for suspected bird flu infections.

The ability to have patients become mobile sooner is better for patient comfort as well as for staff productivity.

The adult patients are able to express their fears, their emotions, their concerns, their wishes and their dreams in another manner.

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

I was on 20 minutes one day, and I was on an hour on Saturday, and then it hung up on me after all that. It's been stressful, but we're trying to take care of the patients and not send them off not knowing what to do.

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

Most emergency nurses, I think, would agree that it was difficult because many times patients just didn't fit into one of the three categories. The five-level system is a refinement; it is more scientific.

Most have never seen a pandemic. And we saw with Katrina that patients went off their medications, especially psychiatric medications. Medication is something people are overlooking.

We have patients in the United States dying from infections that are untreatable. This is unthinkable.

We have our database set up to calculate the time a practitioner spends with patients in general. We've recently put in place a note/charting system by which we can calculate time, including the initial evaluation, casting, scanning, alignment, and fitting. We can pull that information in the future and, say, look at the time practitioners are spending on casting, or on evaluation.

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

We'll be looking very carefully at the reforms and I can tell you we'll be very critical if patients like these don't get the drugs that they need.

When it comes to the treatment of patients with chronic schizophrenia, the glass is only half-full.

We can only hope that it is low, and that it doesn't happen. We apologize to our patients and our community.

We're always looking for more patients to enhance our teaching component. It would enhance us, plus you have some capacity at MCH in inpatient care. It's a win for both of our organizations and the community as well as the veterans.

With all research studies, the goal is to create better medical care in the long run. We definitely hope once we discover the cause of the Chiari and give medical professionals more information, hopefully they can more accurately diagnose the condition and diagnose it sooner so patients don't have to wait to begin treatment or experience severe symptoms.

Without air meds on board, they will not allow us to take patients ... and Charleston is not equipped to keep folks overnight,

We are trying to find patients at the highest risk and treat them for a longer period of time.

We are trying to find out what patients need, rather than what it suits us to provide. And the people are saying: 'We want services to work together.' They ask: 'Why do I have to tell my story over and over again to different people; why can't I see the same person, or if that's not possible, why can't they pass the information on to other people.'

We are the leading source of reliable information about cancer. We want to eliminate it as a major problem, but we are also here for the patients and for there loved ones.

We believe these types of claims cannot be litigated on a class-wide basis. In deciding whether to reimburse, each third-party payer had different business objectives and, in meeting those objectives, considered and relied on different information, at different times, regarding different patients with different medical histories.

We believe these subjects and patients really learned to control their brain and, through that, their pain...Pain has a huge impact on individual patients, their families and society. I got incredibly jazzed by the results. We could change people's lives. However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain.

We hate it. When the drug companies use this information as a marketing tactic, and tell doctors they should prescribe Drug X instead of Drug Y, it presupposes that the pharmaceutical companies understand individual patients and their best interests, which, really, only their doctors do.

We wanted to make sure people can choose their own doctor, ... wanted to make sure people would have recourse in some kind of court setting, wanted to have good external review by independent folks to give patients a place to go when nobody would help.

We've got sick babies, sick old people and everything in between. We've seen strokes, chest pain, diabetes patients passing out, seizures, people without medicine, people with the wrong medicine. It's been busy.

We have been working closely with the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, MHLW and some of the country's leading physicians to bring this valuable technology to patients in Japan. We are excited to be expanding this unique technology to another part of the world, where a significant number of patients can benefit.

We've done a very good job of teaching patients that they need things,

We have wig care and last December, we were certified by 'Look Good, Feel Better,' part of the American Cancer Society, to teach cancer patients things they can do to look good.

We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes?

We have thousands of patients and family members, ... who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

Today, through the overuse of antibiotics, many of our most deadly diseases are showing significant resistance to our best line of defense antibiotics. It's critical that we find new ways to combat these diseases and ensure that doctors and patients are aware of the impact of over-prescribing on increasing antimicrobial resistance.

Today's vote proves yet again that the movement to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest is unstoppable.

Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.

Treating illnesses is why we became doctors. Treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable.

Trauma funds aren't going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get treated in the basin. Over 96 percent of patients are getting trauma care. We're doing the best we can do.

We need to stop viewing them as a choice. The patients feel guilty; the providers tell them things like they should just eat; parents are blamed; the insurance companies won't fund treatment because they think it's a choice. It's held us back for decades.

While we in the VA got all of our patients out We still have 2500 patients we still need to evacuate out of the city of New Orleans. That's being done today and tomorrow,

We are now confident that patients have safer alternatives in this important class of diabetes drugs,

We are now at a point where patients across the county are at risk. There is no safety net.

We haven't had any fatalities yet, but still we have severely dehydrated patients coming in.

The practice set up at the different shelters off of the Hill, ... Susan Gisler, our nurse practitioner, helped with getting medication to patients who left the Hill without their prescriptions. Dr. Schoonover and I worked out of the Pojoaque and Santa Fe shelters. And Dr. Nichols worked with patients in Albuquerque.

The president would prefer that all lawsuits involving negligent HMOs be handled in federal court, where injured patients would have to travel far from home and wait in a long line behind criminals and other miscreants to have their cases heard, ... This is wrong and we reject it.

We apologize to our patients and our community. We know that this is going to inconvenience many, and concern many more.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

We are investigating all the specifics on patient care that these two patients received.

Those hospitals in the vanguard, who have organized to provide that kind of coordinated treatment, are able to bring patients in and treat them very quickly, ... But more hospitals and physicians and patients are not organized in that way.

Unfortunately, the start of the new prescription drug benefit would be described by many patients and pharmacists as a nightmare.

We are pleased that Ohio regulations have been changed to allow Hospice and PASSPORT services to be offered together. Previously, many PASSPORT consumers were reluctant to give up the vital services offered by PASSPORT in order to receive much-needed Hospice care. Now we can offer these patients all of the services they need.

The overall findings were negative, but a benefit was seen in patients with established cardiovascular disease.

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

The patients raised many issues the committee will have to grapple with. What we are talking about here is a drug that unequivocally works, and works very well. We have to weigh that against the risk.

The patients in our study who received the recommended doses of heparins or glycoprotein inhibitors alone or in combination had the lowest rates of bleeding. This suggests that the safety demonstrated in clinical trials may be attainable in community (hospital) setting with improved dosing accuracy.

The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

Where alternatives are available, this raises questions about whether a portion of these types of patients can be appropriately treated in non-emergency department settings, such as primary health care clinics.

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

We have long assumed that if we educate patients and make them an active partner in the treatment of their disease, we should be able to dramatically improve their ability to take care of their disease.

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

We relay for the hope that cancer patients in treatment will be supported, the hope that those lost will never be forgotten, and the hope that someday cancer will be eliminated.

We are continually seeing an increase in the number of obese patients presenting to hospitals. These patients are not necessarily surgical patients but present with a variety of medical needs and can be seen throughout a health care facility.

We are looking for opportunities to partner in the community. I think it's very important for Stanford not to just look within and see patients here. If we can make these partnerships work, we will be able to serve patients we wouldn't normally serve. The more we reach out, the more we are able to solidify our referrals on more complex cases.

We recognize that many diseases we aim to treat have a strong genetic component. Additionally, we know some patients taking medicines show efficacy or experience side-effects, while others do not. Our understanding of all this has improved greatly but these areas remain as significant challenges in drug development.

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

Those patients that should have gotten out by Wednesday morning didn't get out till Friday afternoon.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effects on fibromyalgia. Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.