If the person you love is in the hospital longer than a couple of weeks, at some point the doctors who are working on the case will rotate off.
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At the same time (as already evident under Medicare) the treatment of infrequent but costly catastrophic diseases and conditions will be limited in the name of cost control, and the case-by-case discretion of doctors and other providers will be closely monitored and restricted.
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The General Medical Council has suspended two doctors involved in the case.
In court, Khayal testified that he wasn't the treating physician in the case and that other doctors had operated twice to save the man who died.
The Oxford case involves a dispute between doctors and the insurance company over payments.
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The college said while causality was not proven, doctors had been told about the case.
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Some plastic surgery operations take so long to perform that there isn't enough time during the day, so sneaky junior doctors would slip in a case over the weekend that could be considered as urgent, but not really an emergency.
The guidance stresses the need for doctors to consider the risk of child abuse in every case they see.
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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But the concern has led doctors to back off using the drug-coated stents in every case, leading to the slumping sales of these devices.
The case has highlighted the difficulties doctors face when trying to diagnose the level of consciousness of a patient in a coma-like state.
The American Medical Association filed briefs in the Veeck case because it has codes that doctors must use under threat of criminal penalties to bill Medicare and Medicaid.
Although the body has no direct powers to punish doctors, hospital trusts and health authorities, it can refer doctors to the GMC if it thinks the case is bad enough to merit it.
In an initial trial run, involving just 56 telephone calls, the doctors agreed with the nurses' judgment in every case.
Doctors will try to replicate the success of her case and see if aggressive treatment right after birth can "cure, " or if this is an anomaly.
The new case was discovered after the baby girl's mother stopped treatment on her, and doctors realized that the virus was undetectable even without drugs, which HIV patients normally must take for the rest of their lives.
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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He was able -- with the help of doctors and biomedical engineers -- to make a compelling case that his Cheetah blades didn't give him any advantage on the field.
Kaiser Permanente, in turn, is helping make the health case for healthier food in food banks and using its doctors and other health experts to support changes in local food bank policies and practices.
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It is often argued that the distinction between curing and killing is blurred in any case: doctors frequently prescribe increasing doses of opiates which, as well as relieving pain, will advance the death of a patient.
In the case of the groundbreaking Open Notes study, many of the doctors just heard crickets.
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As High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group investigators gather information on the case and await more time at Tsarnaev's bedside, doctors and nurses have tried to make the suspect comfortable - or as comfortable as someone suffering from multiple gunshot wounds can be.
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The case is sealed, but it involves allegations of illegal kickbacks to doctors.
The doctors work to clean the wound, but, as too often is the case, the lights and power fail.
As of now, there are more residency openings than doctors graduating from U.S. medical schools, as has been the case for many years.
Significantly, drug companies can only promote medicines to doctors and patients based on the package inserts approved by the FDA. In the case of the most severe warning, called a black box, the effect on sales can be huge.
So here we have a case of doctors using a drug because it works for reasons other than the way it was studied.
Here was a case worthy of Hollywood: three years was well past the point at which doctors would expect any sort of spontaneous recovery.
However, in what correspondents are calling a "landmark" judgment, the court also said some cases of euthanasia could be sanctioned if doctors were to file a case in court.
Panelist Ileana Pina, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, pointed out that many doctors think the drug helps their patients but did not feel comfortable commenting on the new results.
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