Ministers effectively served notice that they would impose the longer hours in April, giving doctors a choice of two options.
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In another part of Dublin, pro-choice doctors have gathered for a conference organised by the National Women's Council in Ireland.
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Although prostate cancer, in which doctors face a choice between radically different treatment strategies, is an obvious choice for "tailored treatments", other researchers are hopeful that the genetic makeup either of the individual, or, more particularly, of the tumour, will be key to treatment choice in various cancers.
Nielsen says doctors face other challenges as well, such as coordinating care when patients' insurance plans limit the choice of doctors and hospitals.
As a father, will it curb my choice of doctors and treatments for my son?
The implication is that patients and doctors constantly face the choice between high-cost, state-of-the-art care and moderate-cost, conventional care.
It remains largely producer-driven: unaccountable doctors, minimal consumer choice and patients following money rather than the other way round.
However, the program's appeal is limited because it allows only managed care companies to participate, and these companies severely restrict patient choice of doctors and hospitals.
The approach was pioneered in 2001 on a four-year-old boy called Mohammed from West Yorkshire, whose condition was so dire doctors said they had little choice but to opt for an untested treatment.
The study, though it covered only 223 patients, pointed up a painful choice: Because doctors have no way of telling which cases are benign, they err on the side of treatment, despite the side effects.
Aventis' Lantus, the first real, once-a-day, long-acting version of the hormone, will in all likelihood be the first choice of many doctors for treating patients, because it avoids the multiple injections and unsteady response involved in earlier versions of the drug.
But they don't even know they have that choice, because most doctors don't tell people that.
Many doctors consider it a threat to consumer choice and the current private insurance-based system.
Doctors worry that consolidation has hurt patient choice and added to rising health insurance premiums.
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But despite abandoning her case, after having a request for an adjournment rejected by doctors, she remained committed to patient choice at the end of life.
The choice to become teachers, doctors, lawyers or CIA agents.
Labour AM Keith Davies said the board must listen to the public, but if there is no choice but to downgrade, he wants doctors in charge rather than nurses.
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Now the debate over CVT should focus on whether the FDA will allow the company to market Ranexa as a first choice for angina patients, and whether doctors are going to buy the company's sales pitch.
That is partly because French patients can go straight to the specialist of their choice - and keep going to as many doctors as they like, for as many tests as they want.
These are the shoe of choice for those on their feet all day, including doctors, nurses, cashiers and food service workers, who appreciate the anatomically contoured and cushioned footbed, arch support and shock absorption, with just enough style.
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Mr Lilley wants to empower teachers and doctors at the expense of bureaucrats and local authorities, and to encourage choice and diversity.
One group that doesn't have a choice when it comes to going digital are the 1, 500 doctors whom North Shore employs directly.
Because the government is determined to meet its pledge to offer choice for elective care by the end of the year, family doctors will have to rely on inferior and more time-consuming means of referral.
The states could then provide federal assistance to the poor to purchase the private health insurance of their choice, freeing them from the Medicaid ghetto that so badly underpays doctors and hospitals that the poor on Medicaid suffer trouble in finding essential care.
Doctors at the BMA's annual conference in Liverpool this month voted overwhelmingly against supporting a motion "allowing the choice of an assisted death by patients who are terminally ill and who have mental capacity".
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