Unfortunately, most of these cases have a viral cause, so antibiotics won't help the patient.
King says the knee is learning in real time to react to a patient so the patient doesn't have to think about walking.
For instance, an injury to the left hemisphere of the brain, which in 95% of people controls the capacity to understand and generate language, doesn't necessarily mean the patient can never have a conversation again.
Golden says he tried to explain why the side effects weren't as bad as the patient thought, and why the medicine would take care of his cough.
Doctors sometimes make judgment calls to treat people as high risk because of family history, even if it isn't part of the patient's risk score.
If acid secretions are normal, or if they don't correlate with the patient's symptoms, it is a strong clue that the heartburn has another cause.
The hospital's been so pleased with the inexpensive outcome, that it's already begun prep work on a hip replacement surgery using a replicated pelvis -- and, no, they didn't specify if the patient was a fashion victim.
Nalin recognized that the volume of oral rehydration therapy required isn't the same for every patient.
Dr. ANDREW EINSTEIN (Cardiologist, Columbia University): Using beta-blockers or other medications to lower patient's heart rate, which in many cases will chip the radiation dose down by minimizing the number of images which are taken, and matching the technical parameters such that the patient doesn't receive too many x-rays.
Mr. Cuomo famously refused to sit for his official portrait, explaining over the years that he wasn't patient enough and didn't like the idea of looking at himself.
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But if it ultimately pans out, "the neat part about this is, the patient won't feel anything different, " and the Pap wouldn't be performed differently, Diaz added.
The treatment involves taking a patient's T-cells, the infection- and disease-fighting cells of the immune system, and genetically modifying them to target a protein called CD19, which is present on ALL cells.
The cloning element is there purely for the purposes of creating tissues genetically identical to the patient that won't be rejected, and that's a nice idea.
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"The Senate isn't hearing those of us who are closest to the patient and work in the system every day, " Brent Eastman, the chairman of the American College of Surgeons, said in a statement for his organization and 18 other speciality societies opposing ObamaCare.
Of course, the Giants still aren't wholly a healthy patient and there were reasons this game ended up in the loss column.
The Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas wouldn't confirm that Jeffs is a patient, but the Kingman hospital, the sheriff's office and the Las Vegas Police Department said he was there.
And if you ask why, the insurance company will tell you, they don't want to pay for preventive health care because the patient might switch to a different company and they will lose the benefit of the investment in prevention.
Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.
In the process, the patient loses use of a joint that isn't considered essential.
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This means the patient won't have to take powerful drugs to prevent her immune system from rejecting the organ.
All of those infections occurred when the patient wasn't yet taking antiretroviral drugs.
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Gastroenterologists generally only do an endoscopy when the patient doesn't respond to taking a PPI twice a day for 12 weeks.
And while this is a complicated piece of work, what we have to do is make sure that the patient isn't inconvenienced and sees a seamless transition through to the new way of doing it.
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Partridge says there have been several new reconstructive breast therapies developed over the past several years, and though she agrees patients should be informed of them, she says in some cases if the patient doesn't bring it up, the oncologist may wait to have this discussion, especially when radiation treatment is needed.
It took time to adjust to the different riding styles jockeys in the East tend to be more patient than out West because the surfaces aren't as fast as they are in California.
"I don't know how more patient or more humane the police could have handled this incident, " Riggs declared on national television.
Kidney transplant recipient Sally Satel has noted that burial and cremation expenses can be provided when a body is donated to science -- as long as it isn't used to save the life of a current patient.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Health officials said Thursday that thousands of patients of an Oklahoma oral surgeon should undergo testing for HIV and hepatitis after officials looking into the source of a patient's viruses discovered the dentist's instruments weren't being cleaned properly.
The fifth patient, who wasn't a candidate for a transplant, relapsed after 90 days and eventually died, Dr. Brentjens said.
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