But prejudice can get in the way of care, especially when it determines how a health professional decides to work with a patient.

偏见和关怀可以并存，尤其在决定医疗工作者决定怎样为病人治疗的时候。

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Just 5% of 396 interactions between medical colleagues and fewer than one-third of doctor-patient interactions conformed to real-life professional standards.

这些医务工作者们相互之间交流了396次之多，却只有5%符合实际的专业准则；而医生们与病人之间的互动中也只有不到三分之一的交流合乎规范。

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But a physician who is paged while cross dressed might have to see a patient, whose health depends upon a professional appearance by the doctor.

但是，如果一位内科医生被传呼时正好变了装，还是可以去看望病人的，因为病人的健康有赖于专业医生到场。

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The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs published guidelines in 2011 suggesting doctors need to "maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship" online and to consider separating professional and personal content online.

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In this case, however, the patient - a professional magician - was given an epidural anaesthetic, similar to that given to a woman during labour.

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When using the NovoTTF-100A System, a health care professional places electrodes on the surface of the patient's scalp to deliver low-intensity, changing electrical fields called "tumor treatment fields" (TTFs) to the tumor site.

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