It may be up to GPs, rather than patients, to chose which company stores the data, for instance.

比如说，也许将会是医生，而不是病人，在选择由哪一家公司来保管资料这个问题上，具有决定权。

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At first the project started as a way to keep patients busy in the afternoon, rather than have them sitting around smoking.

起初，这个项目是为了让病人在下午忙碌起来，而不是让他们坐在那里抽烟。

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It is likely that providers, who are often stressed by lack of time, focus on interventions to treat the physiologic symptoms of COPD rather than evaluate patients' emotional symptoms.

很可能医疗提供者常常迫于缺乏时间，于是将精力主要放在治疗COPD的生理症状上，而忽视了评估患者的情感症状。

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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.

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But Dr Salisbury has also accused GPs of either giving it to the "worried well" rather than vulnerable patients or not ordering enough.

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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.

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