Landorf said her father had been a doctor, and she trusts her doctors' advice.
Her deterioration led the government, on doctors' advice, to send her that evening to Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore, one of Asia's top hospitals.
While the supposition that men think about sex more than women isn't new, the paper's findings have wider implication for attitudes toward public health and how patients respond to doctors' advice, said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and geriatric medicine who spearheaded the research.
Doctors can then read the x-rays and give advice to doctors in the field.
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Further, a study in Colorado suggests 62 percent of doctors changed their advice to match the U.S. guideline and 16 percent fewer women got the test.
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Doctors dispensing medical advice from televised pulpits is nothing new.
The first study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Tuesday, counters doctors' typical advice that women should gain at least 25 pounds during the course of their pregnancies.
They are endowed with specialized knowledge, and commensurate responsibility, with the understanding that patients will come to them in time of need knowing they can count on the doctors for good advice.
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Connecting the advice doctors give to the scientific evidence is the point of a new commentary on obesity appearing this week in the electronic edition of the respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity.
At the same time, the company showed it to several doctors, asking for advice.
The Alzheimer's Research Trust welcomed the study but warned patients against taking aspirin without advice from doctors.
Hospital doctors should follow similar advice for any men admitted to their hospital.
This embarrassment of riches, however, besieges men with a bewildering array of treatment choices, conflicting advice from doctors--and a lack of definitive studies comparing the options.
But following advice from doctors, who said the proposed limits were so low they could prevent the use of MRI scanners, the issue was placed on the back burner.
Ignoring advice from doctors to rest, Beljan played on over the weekend and carded a three-under-par round of 69 on Sunday, which secured him a two-shot victory over compatriot Matt Every.
We have received plenty of advice from doctors who consult for the company on the exact precautions to take, which is why we decided to stay in Mexico and continue the shoot.
The subject has been so roundly ignored that the 900-page bible of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, offers no advice for doctors on how to assess suicide risk.
The former England under-21 player retired from football in August on the advice of his doctors.
The Medical Defence Union, which provides medico-legal support and advice to UK doctors, said those with drug and alcohol problems should seek help early.
We find that farmers are travelling anything up to 50 miles to attend these clinics, so certainly the advice the "doctors" are giving seem to be highly valued.
It was supposed to evaluate new drugs and treatments, giving clear and authoritative advice to NHS Doctors about what they should and should not be prescribing to their patients.
In its submission to the consultation, the National Clinical Forum - a panel of leading doctors set up to give advice to health boards on service change - said plans to maintain secondary care at four hospital sites were "unsustainable" and that a two-centre model was the "only option with a chance of longer-term sustainability".
To make matters worse, consumers lack expertise in health care, and make their health care purchases on the advice of their chosen doctors and specialists, who not only also have no incentive to control costs, but, rather, have a direct financial interest in them spending more.
Even doctors are threatened, as patients find advice online and treatment in Walmart's new health centres.
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HealthTap founder Ron Gutman emphasizes that the doctors on Healthtap do not give medical advice or make a diagnosis.
But whatever the technology available, the most important advice you will get from doctors and mammographers is: Just do it.
But these statements are not as supportive as they seem at first glance, because according to the advice of those organizations, doctors may be moving too fast to use Vytorin when older medicines are better proven.
She got some advice from me about how to approach the doctors with a letter and get a proper medical evaluation for her dad.
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Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said the advice provides "a good steer" for doctors on how to approach the difficult area of end of life care.
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