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The ability to have patients become mobile sooner is better for patient comfort as well as for staff productivity.

Most have never seen a pandemic. And we saw with Katrina that patients went off their medications, especially psychiatric medications. Medication is something people are overlooking.

Most emergency nurses, I think, would agree that it was difficult because many times patients just didn't fit into one of the three categories. The five-level system is a refinement; it is more scientific.

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa. We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

We have our database set up to calculate the time a practitioner spends with patients in general. We've recently put in place a note/charting system by which we can calculate time, including the initial evaluation, casting, scanning, alignment, and fitting. We can pull that information in the future and, say, look at the time practitioners are spending on casting, or on evaluation.

We have patients in the United States dying from infections that are untreatable. This is unthinkable.

Most of the nurses at my hospital did not turn their patients every two hours, mostly because it is so hard to get staff members to help. Also, many are very well aware of the dangers of back injury.

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,

We need to stop viewing them as a choice. The patients feel guilty; the providers tell them things like they should just eat; parents are blamed; the insurance companies won't fund treatment because they think it's a choice. It's held us back for decades.

While we in the VA got all of our patients out We still have 2500 patients we still need to evacuate out of the city of New Orleans. That's being done today and tomorrow,

We are now at a point where patients across the county are at risk. There is no safety net.

We are now confident that patients have safer alternatives in this important class of diabetes drugs,

We haven't had any fatalities yet, but still we have severely dehydrated patients coming in.

When it comes to the treatment of patients with chronic schizophrenia, the glass is only half-full.

With all research studies, the goal is to create better medical care in the long run. We definitely hope once we discover the cause of the Chiari and give medical professionals more information, hopefully they can more accurately diagnose the condition and diagnose it sooner so patients don't have to wait to begin treatment or experience severe symptoms.

We're always looking for more patients to enhance our teaching component. It would enhance us, plus you have some capacity at MCH in inpatient care. It's a win for both of our organizations and the community as well as the veterans.

We can only hope that it is low, and that it doesn't happen. We apologize to our patients and our community.

Without air meds on board, they will not allow us to take patients ... and Charleston is not equipped to keep folks overnight,

We'll be looking very carefully at the reforms and I can tell you we'll be very critical if patients like these don't get the drugs that they need.

We believe these subjects and patients really learned to control their brain and, through that, their pain...Pain has a huge impact on individual patients, their families and society. I got incredibly jazzed by the results. We could change people's lives. However, significantly more science and testing must be done before this can be considered a treatment for chronic pain.

We believe these types of claims cannot be litigated on a class-wide basis. In deciding whether to reimburse, each third-party payer had different business objectives and, in meeting those objectives, considered and relied on different information, at different times, regarding different patients with different medical histories.

We are the leading source of reliable information about cancer. We want to eliminate it as a major problem, but we are also here for the patients and for there loved ones.

We are trying to find out what patients need, rather than what it suits us to provide. And the people are saying: 'We want services to work together.' They ask: 'Why do I have to tell my story over and over again to different people; why can't I see the same person, or if that's not possible, why can't they pass the information on to other people.'

We are trying to find patients at the highest risk and treat them for a longer period of time.

We wanted to make sure people can choose their own doctor, ... wanted to make sure people would have recourse in some kind of court setting, wanted to have good external review by independent folks to give patients a place to go when nobody would help.

We've got sick babies, sick old people and everything in between. We've seen strokes, chest pain, diabetes patients passing out, seizures, people without medicine, people with the wrong medicine. It's been busy.

We hate it. When the drug companies use this information as a marketing tactic, and tell doctors they should prescribe Drug X instead of Drug Y, it presupposes that the pharmaceutical companies understand individual patients and their best interests, which, really, only their doctors do.

The process of making art frees people from the pressures of their illness and offers them a means of expression for their underlying feelings. As a result, people are better able to cope with the effects of their situation. The Creative Center training taught us to deal with the many issues we will face when we make art with families, patients and hospital staff.

We've seen a nine percent decrease in pediatric patients that are uninsured or underinsured in the emergency department.

The poor had to deal with charity hospitals. If admitted to these institutions, they were housed and fed, but they also shared beds and germs with all the other diseased patients in their wards, and often received little medical help; if they were refused admission, they suffered and died in the streets.

We treat patients from southwestern Pennsylvania with no distinction in terms of their residency and we bill them with no distinction in terms of their residency ... We're filing this suit in the hopes that we can resolve this situation and be treated equally with other hospitals.

What we need is a system that's fair to everyone, a system that keeps the physicians in practice and allows patients to have access to physicians in their hour of need.

Yesterday in Boa Vista, all 180 beds were occupied. This morning we managed to add 20 more. Yet, right now we are even forced to have patients share their beds.

We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,

We didn't want to sit on it any longer, based upon the respect we have for the patients and the risk it could potentially create.

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

This provides the using department the chance to put the equipment to use with real patients and see if it is what they need. There is no cost for this type of evaluation, other than, with certain equipment, the return freight cost if the hospital chooses not to purchase.

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

We usually average 80 to 90 patients in 24 hours.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

There is no doubt that the patients feel an enormous sense of disappointment with the decision.

There is currently no organized system to link oncology care to primary care. Successful cancer care doesn't end when patients walk out the door after completion of their initial treatments.

We've seen a good response in 40 percent of patients studied. Patients reported they have less pain and feel better overall. They significantly improved in measures of physical disability.

Today's approval is a major step forward in making breakthrough treatments available for patients with rare and difficult to treat forms of cancer.

We have long assumed that if we educate patients and make them an active partner in the treatment of their disease, we should be able to dramatically improve their ability to take care of their disease.

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

The ratio of meetings to patients is probably 10 to 1: Hawaii tomorrow. Geneva and Singapore next week.

This study demonstrates an opportunity for ED staff to guide patients with potentially life-threatening allergies toward better allergy management.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effects on fibromyalgia. Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

This study shows there is something real about acupuncture and its effectson fibromyalgia, ... Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia - where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief - it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Those patients that should have gotten out by Wednesday morning didn't get out till Friday afternoon.

Where alternatives are available, this raises questions about whether a portion of these types of patients can be appropriately treated in non-emergency department settings, such as primary health care clinics.

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

We relay for the hope that cancer patients in treatment will be supported, the hope that those lost will never be forgotten, and the hope that someday cancer will be eliminated.

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

We are continually seeing an increase in the number of obese patients presenting to hospitals. These patients are not necessarily surgical patients but present with a variety of medical needs and can be seen throughout a health care facility.

We recognize that many diseases we aim to treat have a strong genetic component. Additionally, we know some patients taking medicines show efficacy or experience side-effects, while others do not. Our understanding of all this has improved greatly but these areas remain as significant challenges in drug development.

We are looking for opportunities to partner in the community. I think it's very important for Stanford not to just look within and see patients here. If we can make these partnerships work, we will be able to serve patients we wouldn't normally serve. The more we reach out, the more we are able to solidify our referrals on more complex cases.

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

The patients are very disappointed with the outcome this morning.

The patients in our study who received the recommended doses of heparins or glycoprotein inhibitors alone or in combination had the lowest rates of bleeding. This suggests that the safety demonstrated in clinical trials may be attainable in community (hospital) setting with improved dosing accuracy.

The patients raised many issues the committee will have to grapple with. What we are talking about here is a drug that unequivocally works, and works very well. We have to weigh that against the risk.

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

The overall findings were negative, but a benefit was seen in patients with established cardiovascular disease.

We are pleased that Ohio regulations have been changed to allow Hospice and PASSPORT services to be offered together. Previously, many PASSPORT consumers were reluctant to give up the vital services offered by PASSPORT in order to receive much-needed Hospice care. Now we can offer these patients all of the services they need.

We believed that a minimum of one year was the right amount of time to give health care professionals enough time to fully understand the appropriate use for our medications. You don't want patients going to the doctor and requesting a medicine that they're not familiar with.

We've been working extremely hard to enhance the level of care provided to inmate patients in Delaware.

The fact that this raised the hopes of patients and then did not deliver that promise has special poignancy. Science should be based on truth.

What we're trying to do is to see whether telehealth is an appropriate way to follow patients with dementia, ... The thing about dementia is once you've seen the patient and examined the patient neurologically, most of the followup is examining mental status, which we can do over telehealth. Talking to the patient and the family on how things are going and making some changes or suggestions, be it modifications in the environment or medication treatment for some of the behaviours?that works well over telehealth.

What we try to do is to try to put patients first,

The only significant gains in finding available kidneys for these patients are likely to come from KPD,

We learned that the two cell lines from which Hwang fabricated photos of the other nine cells for the Science paper do not match the DNA of patients who contributed ... cells.

We've worked for many years to achieve the first steps in direct access for the patients we serve in Georgia.

We are committed to assuring the health and safety of psychiatric patients as well as the staff that serves the patients.

We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their car.

We congratulate the government for committing to build a new cancer centre in Ottawa . This is very good news for the people in this area who will be diagnosed with cancer in the years to come. It means that patients in Ottawa and the surrounding area will have better and more timely cancer care.

We consider this approval an important advance in the treatment of head and neck cancer because it has been shown to help some patients live longer. Patients need as many effective treatment options as possible.

We can treat our patients like kings and queens.

We don't advocate splitting pills to save money, and this isn't something patients should do on their own,

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.

We have five chairmen on our bill from the Republican conference, and that's very important. We're where we been trying to get to for three years, and that is to say to the leadership: "Listen, let's discuss this and let's come out with a bill this year that protects patients in reference to managed care." That's right where we are.

We know that many patients struggle to afford their prescription medicines and are unaware that help is available. That is why the pharmaceutical research industry is leading an aggressive campaign to inform doctors and prepare them to educate patients about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. This new effort demonstrates our commitment to locate, inform and mobilize as many doctors as possible.

When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

When patients are asked about the medications they are taking, many do not mention medicinal herbs because they assume that they are safe. What many unsuspecting patients don't know is that the natural herbs they are taking may cause serious complications during and after surgery.

The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior. Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities.

We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn't know the mechanism behind the response. We had to determine the mechanism of response so we could identify the responders.

We're totally reopened for business. We're running a full schedule of patients today and tomorrow.

We need to educate the public. We have posters up, but some patients have a hard time understanding. We have to educate.

We need to engage a broader number of dentists in the state to help out. I'm not blaming or condemning them at all. A lot of them do give away treatment, but if they become a full-fledged Medicaid provider, they're overwhelmed with patients seeking treatment.

We think this is extraordinarily promising. We think that there are a number of patients who would benefit from tissue-engineered vessels.

You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.

We've certainly heard stories where patients are ready to go home but there are a lack of appropriate community options.

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

There exists a gap between what patients expect with regard to end of life care and what actually happens,