While patients often cause doctors to run late, some physicians must also shoulder the blame.
Patients often go into complete remission, and a high proportion of patients are cured.
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Since patients often are treated without being tested, it's hard to know what's what.
Patients often experience some aches and fatigue as they're recovering from a heart bypass.
HoFH patients often develop premature and progressive atherosclerosis, a narrowing or blocking of the arteries.
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Mehta said patients often have to be weaned off those drugs to avoid rebound headaches.
The result: Patients often waste hours trying to find the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
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And he said many patients often went to their doctor several times before fully opening up about their problems.
This approach can provide incredible control over an artificial arm, but patients often prefer to use simpler, mechanical prosthetics.
Patients often gain a lot of weight, and the ups and downs in fluid buildup stress the body and heart.
Catherine Collins, chief dietician at St Georges Hospital in London said stroke patients often had trouble controlling liquids in their mouths.
Dr Chris Guz explained that patients often reacted as the breathing tube of the ventilator was placed in their air passage.
As a result, patients often feel they aren't getting proper treatment unless they leave a clinic with a grab-bag of medicines.
Dietitians help with nutrition, as cancer can change the way the body uses food and patients often lose their appetite from treatment.
But patients often go undiagnosed for months, spreading the disease to others.
After a laparoscopy, patients often complain of soreness, swelling and gas-related irritation.
These patients often need a complex array of support, both mentally and socially, for which fast-paced hospital environments are just not equipped for.
The stumbling block to this middle ground is that patients often don't know what are good (and bad) reasons to go on HRT.
Dr Jim Kennedy, prescribing spokesman of the Royal College of GPs, said patients often asked about whether ginseng helped to protect against colds.
With the exception of rural areas where only one hospital may be accessible, patients often have a choice of healthcare providers, even for inpatient care.
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And patients often don't know many details about their family members.
He noted that in some counties there are no pain specialists at all and patients often have to travel or wait for months to see one.
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Treating with lots of drugs and surgery is considered conservative, but recommending major lifestyle change is considered so radical that patients often aren't even given this option.
To persuade him to take a bath something Alzheimer's patients often have an aversion to his caregiver told him a general was coming for inspection and he needed to get ready.
When she was pregnant, her patients often tried to touch her stomach, and their comments and observations about her size simply slowed her down and increased her already significant discomfort.
Patients often have to take different types of drug several times a day and, with protease inhibitors and some other drugs, there are restrictions on what and when patients can eat.
But how much can one expect from sprawling, chaotic India, where patients often live miles from roads and the public health system, notorious for absentee doctors and missing drugs, is a last resort, even for the poor?
While medicine is coming to realize the importance of physicians functioning as quarterbacks rather than as lone rangers, patients often expect Dr. Lone Ranger, and doctors hate to disappoint them or diminish their own reputation with their patients.
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