The other doctors in the room suggested canceling the event and turning it into a clinical-trial-planning session.
Right? (Applause.) Or have all three doctors in the room when the test is being taken.
So, in the spring of 2007, he held a meeting with a few social workers and emergency-room doctors from hospitals around the city.
In a recent online survey of 700-plus emergency room doctors by Emergency Physicians Monthly, 59% admitted they increased the number of tests they performed because of patient satisfaction surveys.
Once a patient's heartbeat is restored, emergency-room doctors, cardiologists and rescue squads are quickly applying ice and other coolants to moderately lower a patient's body temperature by about six degrees.
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Two nurses hide in the corner of the operating room where doctors are operating on a woman shot in the neck.
When I was first rushed to the emergency room, doctors were unsure what to make of my sweats and momentary difficulty in walking.
When Cameron Mitchell collapsed on the floor of his bathroom with a seizure in January 2004, doctors at the emergency room at first thought it might be a stroke.
We began our push to reform health insurance last March, in this room, with doctors and nurses who know the system best.
When the Vanemans first got to the emergency room, the doctors were afraid that Karen was suffering a stroke or heart attack.
The four of them were sitting at a table in a small windowless conference room, the doctors on one side, the parents on the other.
Three days later, still in pain, she went to an emergency room, where doctors determined she had necrotizing fasciitis caused by the flesh-devouring bacteria Aeromonas hydrophila.
Three days later, still in pain, she went to an emergency room, and doctors eventually determined she had necrotizing fasciitis caused by the flesh-devouring bacteria Aeromonas hydrophila.
Her husband took Jesse to the emergency room, and doctors determined that he had a classic case of mastoiditis: an infection of the mastoid bone, just behind the ear.
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He is promising the American people repeatedly in the last couple of weeks, including in the East Room with the doctors in the white coats, a straight up or down vote.
The jury watched doctors and nurses rushing to the room where they attempted to resuscitate Millie.
This is why restaurants give you a menu while you wait, and why doctors put you in the examination room twenty-five minutes before your examination actually begins.
When these transitions occur, it is important that someone who has knowledge of the case be in the room when the new doctors make their first rounds.
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She first proposed the idea ten years ago and "was laughed out of the room" by skeptical doctors who figured brain tumor growth was too erratic to predict, Swanson says.
The doctors debated sending her to the operating room even though she had no immune system.
Doctors at the local accident and emergency room stitched him up but never took an X-ray, he said.
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Many of the changes at Cincinnati Children's are as rudimentary as these, focusing attention on the rote tasks that give rise to pernicious but unconscious mistakes, like bad room layouts that could cause doctors to trip up as they reach for a scalpel or antibiotic.
Five years, 25 emergency room visits and upwards of 30 doctors' appointments later, I have finally found some resolution in my battle with anxiety.
There was no apparent Boys Club in the common room, nor did the male doctors treat the female students as less knowledgeable or hard working than our male peers.
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At issue were assured emergency-room access, fuller information from doctors, easier access to clinical tests of new drugs, and, most controversial of all, the right to sue health insurers for sub-standard treatment.
But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
Synthes got the results of successful trials published in scientific papers, and Synthes showed doctors how to use its product in the operating room.
And she watched as the method of paying for health care reached its way into the exam room, putting a stranglehold on how doctors practice, and profoundly influencing the doctor-patient relationship.
You need enough doctors to see the patients, and they must have room on their schedules for last-minute appointments, sometimes at inconvenient hours.
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In December, he introduced an expanded computer database that lets Camden doctors view laboratory results, radiology reports, emergency-room visits, and discharge summaries for their patients from all the hospitals in town and could show cost patterns, too.
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