But he once more found an excuse not to go to the doctors' - he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.
"We like working office hours but lots of patients find they can't go to the doctors during office hours so you have to balance that, " he says.
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And, Farai, it could be called a miracle by most because I was able to go back to the doctors and there was no more trace of cancer.
Police are at his bedside at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester waiting to be given the go-ahead by doctors to question him.
"I helped some people get back to the medical tent and then they told all the doctors to go back out there, " Pendleton told CNN.
But he said because people travelled long distances to go to such parks, all casualty doctors had to bear the possibility in mind.
Once she realized that this signaled a mild heart attack, she says, she immediately told the hospital that the doctors should go before the press again to say so.
In the case of this caller, that meant taking a hardship withdrawal or loan from her 401(k) to pay the medical bills so she could go back to her doctors and resume her cancer treatments.
When patients submit their questionnaires, the data go straight to doctors' tablets.
When women have trouble breast-feeding, they are often confronted with two divergent directives: well-meaning lactation consultants urge them to try harder, while some doctors might advise them to simply give up and go the bottle-and-formula route.
When Lisa appealed to the Reno Spark Indian Colony, two Indian Health Service doctors agreed to go visit Johnny but were told by jail officials they were not allowed to see him.
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In an interview, Beatty said that the doctors want Congress to go back to the old law, which allows patients to buy OTC meds with their FSA, HSAs and HRAs without the intervention of doctors.
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In the 1980s I spent a day with Connery -- he was filming "The Untouchables" with Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner -- as he left the set to go to several appointments with doctors.
Using the provision of Obamacare that provides for a free physical exam for Medicare beneficiaries each year (wellness visits), Medicare has approved a new rule to go into effect on January 1, 2011, that will permit Medicare to pay the tab for doctors advising their patients on end-of life treatment options.
Can anyone imagine if we asked then to go to their doctors offices to get tested daily and only their health care providers had access to the information?
So we could end up with a new medical system with the same number of doctors, better results, but costs that continue to skyrocket as prices go through the roof.
If these new doctor-hospital marriages fail again, then this time around the doctors may not been able to go back to what they were doing.
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So both business people and doctors go to some lengths to suppress or disguise the role that intuition plays in their work.
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Indeed, doctors have become the latest group threatening to go on strike unless their pay is increased.
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Most doctors don't have the time to go into detailed discussions about all the options on the table.
You go to one of these witch doctors, who casts a spell on the IRS. Now you can sell the first parcel without declaring a capital gain.
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.
At present, doctors can implant up to three embryos in one go to maximise the chances of a successful outcome.
But Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, the tsar charged by Parliament with ensuring the act is enforced, has said he wants doctors to go a step further and publish individual data.
You only have about three hours to get to the emergency room, go through the admission process and get evaluated before the doctors can figure out if you are a candidate for the clot busting drug that could save you from devastating disability.
There have been some criticisms, by doctors, of changes to the service offered in England which go along with the new number, but in Scotland the service will remain the same.
Doctors and other medical professionals may choose to leave the state and go somewhere they can make better money.
If you'll look at the overall situation in Darfur, there's just not enough doctors to go around.
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