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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Top doctor's chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients
every year
By Steve Doughty
PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 19 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:20 EST, 21 June 2012
Worrying claim: Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use
of a controversial ¿death pathway¿ into the equivalent of
euthanasia of the elderly
Worrying claim: Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use
of a controversial 'death pathway' into the equivalent of euthanasia of the
elderly
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发帖数: 297 | 2 很有启发，转过来分享，评论都很精彩。
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/08/patient-satisfaction-restau
Patient satisfaction: What restaurants can teach doctors
Neil Baum, MD | Physician | August 18, 2013
Americans are notoriously generous and good tippers. However, there are
some servers who get “over the top” gratuities. How do they do it?
1. They make a concerted effort to reach out and touch someone. How many
physicians enter a room and never touch a patient. They are touching more
keyboards than hearts. I ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3758 | 3 The proposal is the idea of the individual thought and each patient's
condition is not the same. If the family members run into big health trouble
, to sue the doctors in charge could not reverse the tragedy. Different
doctors have difference in skills, knowledge level, experience,
qualifications. Also, there are the limitations of hospital equipment per se
, and the doctors could not always keep perfect status and judgment.
Most family members could not standby the patient 24 hours a day, 365 d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3758 | 4 The proposal is the idea of the individual thought and each patient's
condition is not the same. If the family members run into big health trouble
, to sue the doctors in charge could not reverse the tragedy. Different
doctors have difference in skills, knowledge level, experience,
qualifications. Also, there are the limitations of hospital equipment per se
, and the doctors could not always keep perfect status and judgment.
Most family members could not standby the patient 24 hours a day, 365 d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 324 | 5 A doctor of psychology was doing his normal morning rounds when
he entered a patient's room.
He found Patient #1 sitting on the floor, pretending to saw
a piece of wood in half.
Patient #2 was hanging from the ceiling, by his feet.
The doctor asked patient number 1 what he was doing.
The patient replied, "Can't you see I'm sawing this piece
of wood in half?"
The doctor inquired of Patient #1 what Patient #2 was doing.
Patient #1 replied, "Oh. He's my friend, but he's a little crazy.
He thinks he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8775 | 6 http://www.livescience.com/47490-cured-ebola-patient-kent-brant
By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer | August 21, 2014 01:54pm ET
Dr. Kent Brantly, an American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in West
Africa, is cured of the disease and was released today from Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, where he had been in an isolation unit for
nearly three weeks.
After "thorough testing," physicians at Emory and their colleagues at the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1998 | 7 Thousands of patients, including children, may have been affected in a
doctor’s alleged scheme that funded his extravagant lifestyle.
Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a rheumatologist based in South Texas, has been
charged in a $240 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme. In
a federal indictment unsealed Monday, the Justice Department accused Zamora-
Quezada of falsely diagnosing patients with degenerative diseases, then
giving those patients chemotherapy and other toxic medications they... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2300 | 8 SEATTLE -- A woman posing as a hospital employee was caught cutting the
tubes connecting patients at Swedish Medical Center with their pain
medications in order to steal the drugs inside, according to the Seattle
Police Department.
According to the police report for the incident, a patient at Swedish
Hospital on First Hill woke up April 13 to find an unknown woman in his room
fiddling with his PCA, a machine that allows patients to control their own
pain medication.
When the man pointed out that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5381 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: Whoiwas (Who I am?), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 7,000 Okla. dental patients possibly exposed to HIV
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Mar 28 18:38:23 2013, 美东)
Health officials Thursday urged 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma dentist to
seek medical tests for hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS after
discovering that instruments weren't properly cleaned despite the doctor's
knowing that several of his patients carried infectious diseases.
"It's uncertain how long those practices have... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10288 | 10 http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/17/new-patient-screened-positiv
DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) On Friday morning Baylor Hospital in Dallas
confirmed a patient with 慹bola similar symptomsalso triggered a positive
on a verbal screening questionnaire.
Although a positive blood test has not been confirmed, sources says it抯 not
unusual to have a patient screen positive considering the wider net for
ebola now over Dallas. A positive screening means the patient met some of
the criteria to cause concern.
A ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16484 | 11 http://belizean.com/belize-confirms-patient-with-ebola-symptoms
Reports tonight are that two individuals possibly infected with the Ebola
virus are in Belizean waters. Local TV station Channel 7 monitored in the
capital City Of Belmopan tonight, reported having credible reports that a
couple from a Texas-based cruise ship presently anchored off Belize City, is
on a ship tender, unable to return to the cruise ship, while being refused
entry to Belize City to catch an air ambulance awaiting at the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3 | 12 http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.scientificameric
No one wants a hacking cough for days or weeks on end. But research
shows that it generally takes about 18 days to get over a standard cough-
based illness. Most of us grow impatient after a week or so and head to
the doctor to get a prescription. The problem with that recourse, however,
is that antibiotics are usually useless against typical respiratory
infections that cause coughs.
A new analysis shows that even tho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3758 | 13 【 以下文字转载自 Sociology 讨论区 】
发信人: jpostsildavi (ID), 信区: Sociology
标 题: The brief Code of bedridden patient care workers
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Feb 2 11:19:09 2013, 美东)
Patient in charge often come with a fever, phlegmatic, edema，urine
turbid, arrhythmia and abnormal blood pressure. Be careful not to let
patient have bed sores, always check 6 vital signs of physical condition
of the patient:
1. heart rate 2. respiratory rate 3. body temperature 4. blood pressure
5. oxyhemoglobin 6. blood glucose l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18007 | 14 Reports tonight are that two individuals possibly infected with the Ebola
virus are in Belizean waters. Local TV station Channel 7 monitored in the
capital City Of Belmopan tonight, reported having credible reports that a
couple from a Texas-based cruise ship presently anchored off Belize City, is
on a ship tender, unable to return to the cruise ship, while being refused
entry to Belize City to catch an air ambulance awaiting at the International
Airport to take them to the their country of orig... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 Obamacare patients are discovering that many doctors, hospitals, and top
cancer centers do not accept the plans they purchased.
"It's so frustrating," Terri Durheim of Enid, Okla., told CNN. "It's not
doing me a lot of good."
Durheim is not alone. Obamacare's so-called "narrow networks" are designed
to limit customer choices to push patients into cheaper choices in an effort
to control costs. Earlier this year Washington Post health writer Sarah
Kliff warned that "Obamacare's narrow networks are... 阅读全帖 |
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M****n
发帖数: 411 | 16 Officials: 2 patients being monitored at Chicago hospitals for Ebola-like
symptoms
Updated 17 mins ago
CHICAGO (WLS) --
Two patients are being monitored in isolation at The University of Chicago
Medical Center and Rush University Medical Center after reporting Ebola-like
symptoms, officials say. Neither patient is believed to have been exposed
to the disease.
The Chicago Department of Public Health emphasizes that no case of Ebola has
been confirmed and they are acting out of an abundance of cau... 阅读全帖 |
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b*******s
发帖数: 954 | 17 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/six-ways-to-be-a-better-patient/
Six Ways to Be a Better Patient
Last week, the Well blog featured “Six Rules Doctors Need to Know.” So
what about patients?
Dr. Robert Lamberts, the August, Ga., physician who wrote the original rules
in his blog, Musings of a Distractible Mind, says it was easy to criticize
his own profession, but it’s tough to turn the spotlight on patients. That
said, patients are half of the doctor-patient relationship, and they need a |
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g***r
发帖数: 285 | 18
What
75
when your attending said treat the patient, not the lab, it means you have
to look at the patient first, lab is just a tool to help you understand the
patient's condition better;
for instance, a patient on dilantin 100mg tid and has not had a breakthrough
seizure for many years and for whatever reason you ordered a dilatin level
and find it subtherapeutic, you do NOT just increase the dose of dilantin,
for all the patients/case scenario you listed, i bet all the patients were
symptomati |
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发帖数: 3758 | 19 Patient in charge often come with a fever, phlegmatic, edema，urine
turbid, arrhythmia and abnormal blood pressure. Be careful not to let
patient have bed sores, always check 6 vital signs of physical condition
of the patient:
1. heart rate 2. respiratory rate 3. body temperature 4. blood pressure
5. oxyhemoglobin 6. blood glucose level
Care workers must communicate with the family members concerned and
doctors in charge promptly in case of emergency.
Home Phone numbers: ( ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 20 Former patient describes grim conditions at health center where 10 children
died
"There's just no compassion, ya know?" the 66-year-old diabetic said.
"It was really dirty, they didn't really take care of me," he said. "It was
like I had to wait for another shift to come in another two hours to change
me, and this went on daily."
Dorio says he visited the pediatric unit, where the medically fragile
children lived, about once a week. He says the children there always seemed
to be sick.
The former... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17722 | 21 Lawyer: No proof nurse raped Arizona patient who had baby
(EVEN THOUGH DNA TEST SHOWED MATCH)
By TERRY TANG
Phoenix police say Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse, has been arrested
on a charge of sexual assault of an incapacitated woman who gave birth last
month at a long-term health care facility. Phoenix Police Chief Jeri
Williams said Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, that investigators arrested
Sutherland on one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult
abuse. (Maricopa County Sh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 59 | 22 Patient members might have an extended meaning referring also to the patient
family. Not sure in this case, I don't typically see a sign says "patient''
or "patient members'', they were courteously called "visitors'' like
Visitors of the Wonderland. :) |
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发帖数: 1904 | 23 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
ruoruod (ronny) 于 (Wed Oct 10 14:33:59 2012, 美东) 提到:
祝贺今天拿到CS pass的同学，求分享 how to write new format Patient notes 经验.
THANKS and CONGRATS!!!
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LIAYN (重新生长) 于 (Wed Oct 10 14:56:59 2012, 美东) 提到:
听说，新的考试SP没有那个check sheet了，所以要尽量往PN里多写问诊和体征，包括
关键的阴性的，这样才能显示出来你问了和查了这些问题。
“支持性的病史和体征”，从我在学习班学来的，是可以在多个诊断中重复使用的，如
果确实支持那些诊断的话。可以直接copy paste，可以省不少时间。还可以在第二和第
三诊断下写不支持的病史和体征，但要写清楚是不支持的。比如第一诊断是肌肉拉伤，
第二是椎间盘突出，可以写 “straight leg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9638 | 24 Hospitalists like to give heparin drip for acute stroke patients with atrial
fibrillation. This is a controversial topic. Anticoagulation is indicated
for cardiac emboli and atrial fibrillation, but when stroke size is large,
anticoagulation would put patients on the risk of hemorrhagic transformation
. What should we do?
Here is a review article:
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/38/2/423.long
So we should not routinely anticoagulate acute stroke patients with a-fib.
However, if patients ... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | 25 Patient (China),
Tumor (the island of Taiwan)
Doctor (USA)
The patient has been suffering from a tumor and has been treated by the same
doctor for over 60+ years.
The conclusion:
the doctor is his patient's best friend:-) |
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d*w
发帖数: 384 | 26 poor response to blood pressure drugs adds it to the suspicion of secondary
hypertension.
bring her to a real specialist working on hypertension. many of the common
causes of secondary hypertension can be detected by detailed history taking
and physical examination. but it would be hard for just us talking without
seeing the patient.
but let me know what her blood pressure levels were before this hypertension
occurred.
the blood pressure goal in secondary hypertension will be different from
that... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 173 | 27 Ebola流行起来的话，CDC有莫大的功劳。
Texas Health Presbyterian has released a statement indicating a patient was
in fact placed in isolation at the facility following a transfer from Baylor
University Medical Center.
“The patient was placed in isolation at Texas Health Dallas and evaluated
with all appropriate precautions,” the statement read. “The patient was
determined to be low risk and wanted to leave the hospital. The CDC and
Texas Department of State Health Services were advised of this and did not
feel... 阅读全帖 |
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w*p
发帖数: 16484 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: paopao1997 (永远的泡泡), 信区: Military
标 题: Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Oct 17 12:50:57 2014, 美东)
Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast, so
they are ebola patients now? |
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L***N
发帖数: 429 | 29 They can fake some of the symptoms, especially pain. And when you check
something, if they say it's neg, it's neg. If it's suppose to be pos for a
real patient with that real disease, then they will fake it as pos.
I never mentioned in anywhere in the PN that the SP are not real patient,
they are real patients in the exam room. Like I said, for muscle strain, you
will list straight leg neg as supportive PE, for disc herniation, just say
"straight leg neg, this Dx is less likely". Well, that's wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1325 | 30 Abstract
Background and Purpose— The role of anticoagulant treatment for acute
cardioembolic stroke is uncertain. We performed an updated meta-analysis of
all randomized trials to obtain the best estimates of the efficacy and
safety of anticoagulants for the initial treatment of acute cardioembolic
stroke.
Methods— Using electronic and manual searches of the literature, we
identified randomized trials comparing anticoagulants (unfractionated
heparin or low-molecular-weight heparin or heparinoids... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 32 Gov. Rick Perry agreed with a Dallas Hospital official that the allegation
that the infected Ebola patient 'languished for hours in a room with other
patients and that hospital authorities resisted isolating him' is definitely
the fault of the CDC and President Obama |
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发帖数: 18007 | 33 Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast, so
they are ebola patients now? |
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m********t
发帖数: 13072 | 34 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson, 26
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 15 11:25:32 2014, 美东)
BREAKING: Family confirms identity of 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson,
26, a nurse with
https://twitter.com/KHOU |
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m********t
发帖数: 13072 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson, 26
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 15 11:25:32 2014, 美东)
BREAKING: Family confirms identity of 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson,
26, a nurse with
https://twitter.com/KHOU |
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T******n
发帖数: 28 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 PsychoAnalysis 讨论区 】
发信人: TimeSpan (日月), 信区: PsychoAnalysis
标 题: How to buy depression medicine for a patient back in China
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Apr 3 14:35:18 2012, 美东)
Hi,
Anti-depression medicine is not cheap in China. Is there any way we can buy
the medicine here and mail it to the patient in China? I heard WalMart has
cheap generic anti-depression medicines. But it needs docotor's prescription
.
Anyone has done that before? Please give some advice.
Thanks. |
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c*****i
发帖数: 511 | 37 上的是HealthNet保险，可以cover family的。
今天带娃看病，给了一份receipt of payment.
有一段：
Account Balance Summary:
Total Balance: 300.00
Patient Balance: 300.00
Insurance Balance: 0.00
请问这个Patient Balance是什么意思？
我们每次看大夫都付co-pay 10刀。
做过一次拍片子、检查。
这300刀是什么意思？需要我们付账单吗？ |
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发帖数: 28835 | 38 I have given up hands. hehe, no patient now |
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m********t
发帖数: 13072 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson, 26
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 15 11:25:32 2014, 美东)
BREAKING: Family confirms identity of 3rd Ebola patient as Amber Joy Vinson,
26, a nurse with
https://twitter.com/KHOU |
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n********m
发帖数: 104 | 41 今天打了很多医生诊所，没有一个受新的patients。我现在是怀孕30周了。请问JMS知
道有哪些在north york 或markham的family医生或 Ob 接受新的patients。非常的谢谢
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s****y
发帖数: 287 | 42 Patient，查查英文字典，有两种词性解释：1.名词，病人；2.形容词，有耐心的。以
前上学的时候就觉得这英文真的是有意思，怎么会一个单词有两种词性，两种解释，这
两种解释还完全不沾边呢？来到加拿大了之后，自己体会了看病的苦和乐，才知道这两
种解释还真的不是完全不沾边。最近多伦多感冒病毒肆虐，听到的、见到的，都是周围
的朋友一个个相继倒下了，我也未能幸免，自2月中旬开始就一直咳嗽、流涕、还有低
烧的现象。实在是坚持不住的情况下去见了医生，医生发觉我嗓子发炎，直接就给开了
抗生素，在吃了8天之后，感冒症状有所好转，但是好转没两天，症状似乎又更重了，
最糟糕的是，在我感冒反复的期间，我的女儿不幸也被我传染了。
周一清早，闹钟响了之后，我赶紧起床去叫女儿，准备送她去上学，结果发现小家伙没
精打采的，小脸蛋通红，跟我说“妈妈我难受……”，我赶紧把孩子搂过来一模，天哪
！额头烫的吓人，浑身更跟小火炉子一样，滚烫滚烫的。赶紧量了一下体温，38.5度！
而且还有上升的趋势！吓得我赶紧打电话给公司请假，并约了我们的医生Dr. B。我们
的医生从来都是约的很快的，医生助理一听孩子高烧，给我们安排了中午 |
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j****o
发帖数: 442 | 43 Patient，查查英文字典，有两种词性解释：1.名词，病人；2.形容词，有耐心的。以前上学的时候就觉得这英文真的是有意思，怎么会一个单词有两种词性，两种解释，这两种解释还完全不沾边呢？来到加拿大了之后，自己体会了看病的苦和乐，才知道这两种解释还真的不是完全不沾边。
最近多伦多感冒病毒肆虐，听到的、见到的，都是周围的朋友一个个相继倒下了，我也未能幸免，自2月中旬开始就一直咳嗽、流涕、还有低烧的现象。实在是坚持不住的情况下去见了医生，医生发觉我嗓子发炎，直接就给开了抗生素，在吃了8天之后，感冒症状有所好转，但是好转没两天，症状似乎又更重了，最糟糕的是，在我感冒反复的期间，我的女儿不幸也被我传染了。
周一清早，闹钟响了之后，我赶紧起床去叫女儿，准备送她去上学，结果发现小家伙没精打采的，小脸蛋通红，跟我说“妈妈我难受……”，我赶紧把孩子搂过来一模，天哪！额头烫的吓人，浑身更跟小火炉子一样，滚烫滚烫的。赶紧量了一下体温，38.5度！而且还有上升的趋势！吓得我赶紧打电话给公司请假，并约了我们的医生Dr. B。我们的医生从来都是约的很快的，医生助理一听孩子高烧，给我们安排了中午12点的约。
胡乱给 |
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s*********r
发帖数: 60 | 44 when I was in a hospital's parking lot this morning, I saw a sign saying
parking only for patient members, does patient members mean 病人家属? |
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a*****e
发帖数: 911 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 SanFrancisco 讨论区 】
发信人: ppo (chimera), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: Single workout can lift mood in depressed patients
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 25 12:10:48 2006)
A single 30-minute walk on a treadmill can give a temporary emotional lift to
patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the results of a small
study suggest.
Researchers found that among 40 men and women recently diagnosed with major
depression, those who spent just a half hour on a treadmill reported a short-
term improveme |
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s*********m
发帖数: 16 | 46 Patient-Derived Xenograft是做药理实验很好的模型。想请教一下各位大牛，Patient
-Derived Xenograft可以做基因功能研究吗？比如knockdown或者overexpress一个基因
，看看对肿瘤生长的影响。 |
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d**********n
发帖数: 103 | 47 I am not sure if someone had provided similar information about patient
notes. Some friends on this board were asking and I thought it might be
helpful. So I decided to post it in a separate post here. If it is not
helpful, please feel free to delete it.Thanks!
I attended a workshop and this is what I learned about patient notes. I hope
I still remembered them right.
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First of all, no matter what, we need to write in the box on that piece of
paper. Anything outsid |
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d**********n
发帖数: 103 | 48 献丑, 希望能够抛砖引玉
I scanned several patient notes (4 in total) I wrote when practicing CS and
wanted to share with you. These were written within 5 days of my exam and
written in a timed fashion. i.e. they were finished in 10 minutes after I
did a practice case in 15 minutes with my friend.
These, by no means, are good examples but I wanted to use them to
demonstrate several points I was trying to come across about patient notes.
1. Write everything in the box provided on this sheet of paper;
2. |
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l*******8
发帖数: 1745 | 49 大家好！非常感谢ACAP对我们CMG的支持！在ACAP的大力支持下，现在在布鲁克林有一
家规模较大的health
center with multiple specialties愿意向广大CMG提供out patient OBservership(OB
) position, 并在OB结束后可以为
CMG提供推荐信。要求申请者具有Active ACAP membership, pass step 1 and CK. All
applicants who are interested
in this position please use "Brooklyn Out Patient OB Request" in the title
of your first email and include自己感兴趣的
专业和可以进行OB的时间段，ACAP membership status, USMLE step1 and 2CK status
, and brief CV in the first
email. Please send email to A*****[email protected], 我们将 |
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发帖数: 364 | 50 a physician is scared of seeing an HIV patient with an open wound. can a physician refuse to see this patient?
A. yes
B. no
C.depends
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