(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(3) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(4) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(5) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(6) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
(7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(8) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(9) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(10) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(11) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(12) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(13) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(14) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(15) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(16) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(17) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
(18) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(19) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Secretariat
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Secretariate
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one of these deaths were not reported to the secretariat.
(2) The all-party group for Bahrain is supported by the country's government, which engages Gardant Communications to act as its secretariat.
(3) Throughout our time on the victims and survivors’ panel, we have given our input and I would hope what we say is being considered as part of the review.” Saunders said the meeting took place with the inquiry secretariat but Jay was not present.
(4) French MEPs receive detailed memos from the general secretariat of European affairs, an intergovernmental structure in Paris.
(5) At least seven militants and one police officer were killed in two separate clashes on Sunday, the Indian army said, with one of the gunfights, around a government secretariat in the Poonch district of Jammu, still raging on Monday.
(6) Sixty seven this week, he was at the Commonwealth secretariat and chief economist at Shell (1995-97), before winning a seat at Twickenham 27 years after he first tried to enter parliament for Labour.
(7) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
(8) The dispute tribunal, which was created in 2009 in an effort to improve the UN's system of internal justice, has challenged the power of the secretariat on several occasions, forcing it to hand over evidence in Wasserstrom's case, and a higher court has rejected the UN's attempt to appeal.
(9) The Society has established a Secretariat, a central bureau where requests about acquisition of new skills or details of research opportunities may be directed, advertised, and relayed.
(10) Overseas, he designed the United Nations secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
(11) Customers have one month to nominate a third party based in Switzerland, such as a lawyer, to manage or challenge the disclosure process on their behalf, according to a spokesman for Switzerland’s State Secretariat for International Finance.
(12) The veteran leftist Dimitris Vitsas, who sits on Syriza’s political secretariat, said now that the “people have spoken” the government would move quickly to tackle the devastating effects of austerity.
(13) Iglesias’s stance echoed a statement released by his party’s international secretariat a day earlier.
(14) This station, on the Violet line, one stop east from Central Secretariat, is the place to buy tailored clothes.
(15) One secretariat staff told Irin: “Now, it’s a bunch of people in New York writing the SG report, and who literally have taken over a lot of the process.” Within this messy landscape, some proposals have begun floating to the top, and, more importantly, others have fallen by the wayside.
(16) The board’s secretariat is provided by a seconded member of the justice ministry’s national offender management service and is understood to have requested Appleby keep his presentation focused on the wider aspects of the issue over which he has been an expert for more than 20 years.
(17) When he’d tried out that gag the night before at the secretariat of his local politburo, everyone had fallen about laughing.
(18) The main role of the secretariat in the evaluation of patient care is that of a facilitator with the provision of organisational and computer skills with secretarial back-up and co-ordination of clinical review activities.
(19) Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate secretariat, said the figures showed emissions were rising once again in eastern Europe .
(20) The BBA provides the secretariat to the committee, whose power was highlighted in its annual report of 2006-07 , which contained numerous references to the group's influence over regulators.