I, too, am guilty of putting off doctor appointments when I am ill because it is more stressful to me than the illness.
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Try beach pedicures in Bali, leg-hair threading in Vietnam or having your dead skin nibbled off by doctor fish in Hong Kong.
After the market closed Thursday Conceptus, which makes a nonincisional permanent birth control method, cut its second-quarter and full-year outlooks, citing the weak economy and high unemployment, which it said is causing would-be patients to put off their doctor visits.
Maybe is we all stayed home instead of rushing off to the doctor everytime we felt sick our bodies might start developing the necessary antibodies to fight off those diseases and then we would not need so much healthcare in the first place.
In order for it to attempt to strike a doctor off for professional misconduct, it must re-hear the case.
The GMC says it cannot strike a doctor off the medical register on the basis of a judgement made by another regulatory abroad.
Mom just kept a watch over us to see how we were doing but now every time someone gets a sniffle the parents want to rush off to the doctor for care and doctors being human only want to please the patients and their families.
Even if a doctor is struck off, they retain the "Dr" title - which is an academic qualification.
Action was taken in slightly more than 500 of those, with just 65 cases - less than the year before - resulting in a doctor being taken off the medical register.
Generally, if the offence has any bearing on the potential safety of patients, such as sexual crimes or those involving violence, the doctor is struck off - the hearing is essentially a rubber-stamping affair.
Or bypass the family doctor, who is off for the weekend, and head to the more-expensive acute care clinic?
When I returned home I continued to feel ill so I went to my doctor who shrugged it off as flu.
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Tim DeWeese, the center's clinical director, said one of his patients who had finished college and gotten a job and an apartment became homeless after his doctor visits were cut off.
It is not illegal for a doctor to prescribe a drug off-label, that is, for a non-FDA-approved use, but a drug marketer cannot lawfully encourage a doctor to do so.
In the late 1950s, with racism still prevalent in many American neighborhoods, an Irish-American couple in financial difficulties accepts money to purchase a large home in an all-white Boston suburb on secret behalf of a well-off, highly educated African-American doctor and his wife.
Neil was forced to take time off work and even needed medication from his doctor.
If the PGM takes off and regulators let him, your family doctor could buy one--and so could you.
If you get different advice, but have a better relationship with that doctor, you will be better off too.
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Thomas sent a medical note from his doctor to Toulouse saying he required time off after a family bereavement.
The actress planned to fast for three weeks, but under doctor's orders she will hand off to billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, who will start his planned three-day fast a week early, said Jonathan Freedman.
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They can save 30 to 80 percent off the cost of an urgent care, ER, or doctor's visit.
Mr Jones, who has retired and taken his name off the medical register, said he had been a caring doctor.
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Mr Jones retired and took his name off the medical register, saying he had been a caring doctor throughout his career and followed national protocols.
If your child's symptoms are completely controlled for a period of time, your child's doctor may recommend lowering doses or taking your child off a medication (stepping down treatment).
To get a sense of how large a problem this is, imagine if you fell off your bike and had a head injury such that your doctor ordered some tests.
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Pro "athletes might be scared off or intimidated by antidoping organizations from working with such a suspended doctor, " he says.
The call comes after the Doctor Patient Partnership revealed one in five people were put off going to the dentist because of fear about the treatment and cost.
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