Dr. Rob Lamberts is an entertaining and informative writer who has been chronicling his departure from a traditional practice where his time was increasingly spent with billing codes, rather than patients.
But Dr Salisbury has also accused GPs of either giving it to the "worried well" rather than vulnerable patients or not ordering enough.
Working with primary care doctors to encourage them to allow the nursing facility to treat many acute episodes rather than ordering patients back to the hospital.
But Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is now powerless against the strain that has been found in people in the community rather than sick patients with serious underlying conditions and weak immune systems.
It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.
Caroline Schnakers, who carried out the research with Laureys, told CNN that one probable reason for the high rate of misdiagnosis is that doctors often base their diagnosis on observations of a patient's behavior, rather than assessing patients using standardized tests.
Rather than add more patients, as many of his peers do, Novich cut costs.
He said nurses were fed up with spending time on administrative activities rather than on treating patients and ensuring hospitals were clean.
She cited examples of therapists who had grown their business by positioning themselves as, say, specialists in helping modern families navigate digital media, rather than simply helping patients manage grief or depression.
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However, the loss of provider autonomy is likely to come at a significant cost: in prioritizing adherence to guidelines rather than dedication to patients, we risk losing the vital connection between patient and provider, risk losing the fundamental trust a patient deserves to have (and traditionally has placed) in a provider.
It saves them considerable time and trouble, and lets them focus on caring for patients rather than on paperwork.
Many of these units will have experts on site to see children during the day rather than taking in-patients as they do now.
Working for your patients rather than insurance companies can be freeing.
Asking patients rather than doctors might deliver a more accurate assessment of the NHS in each country but I suspect we have not heard the last of this row.
The ageing population and growth in chronic conditions, things like heart disease and dementia, means the health service has found itself having to manage patients rather than cure them.
Financial Counselors become problem solvers and consultants to patients, rather than pushy or demanding bill collectors.
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These hospitals have low mortality rates because they keep their sickest patients alive rather than letting them die.
Because it incorporates the central idea behind free-market health care: that health-care spending is most efficient when that spending is executed by individual patients, rather than third parties.
Yet even his drug might have failed had it been tested as most drugs are--on the broadest possible range of patients, rather than on just those most likely to benefit.
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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It remains largely producer-driven: unaccountable doctors, minimal consumer choice and patients following money rather than the other way round.
He said that the UK health authorities should prepare to treat patients at home rather than hospital in order to limit the spread of the infection.
Once a rough picture of the virus' genes was put together, it served as a foundation for diagnostics that can tell whether patients have SARS rather than garden-variety viral pneumonia.
MRSA, for instance, is blamed partly on waiting-time targets which put pressure on hospitals to squeeze in as many patients as possible rather than take care to ensure that hospital-acquired infections do not spread.
Further, they will tend to maximize against payment formulas rather than doing what is best for the patients.
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We need a genuine free market in health care, one in which patients control the funds rather than governments, employers and insurance companies.
Since all these drugs are treatments rather than cures for the illness, most patients need to take them for years, or indeed the rest of their lives.
Rather than a traditional trial setup, his patients pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of participating in the studies (not the most ethical or effective subject selection strategy).
The editorial, by Zhaoping Li and David Heber of the Center for Human Nutrition at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, urged clinicians to focus on "fat reduction rather than simply weight loss" in treating patients with obesity.
And while the bill would have encouraged injured patients to negotiate a settlement rather than sue, there was no requirement that they do so.
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