If the doctor is conscientious, he wants to study the patient.

Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.

So many times I have wondered why veterinarians do not wipe the table clean before each new canine patient is placed on it for examination.

As shown in Fig. 4, an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400-kc. bursts.

One of the advantages of this method is that the `` pill '' can remain in the patient for several days, permitting observation under natural conditions.

Particularly hard for the therapist to grasp are those instances in which the patient is manifesting an introject traceable to something in the therapist, some aspect of the therapist of which the latter is himself only poorly aware, and the recognition of which, as a part of himself, he finds distinctly unwelcome.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

Of such hidden meanings the patient himself is, more often than not, entirely unaware.

This circumstance in the patient's case plus the fact that his tactual capacity remained basically in sound working order constitutes its exceptional value for the problem at hand since the evidence presented by the authors is overwhelming that, when the patient closed his eyes, he had absolutely no spatial ( that is, third-dimensional ) awareness whatsoever.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

The patient, on the other hand, is far from neutral ; ;

Naturally, the patient does not say, `` I hate my father '', or `` Sibling rivalry is what bugs me ''.

If the early approaches are wise, understanding and patient, the satisfactions of marital fulfillment will probably be discovered before the marriage is much older.

Mouthwash or mouth rinse is a chemotherapeutic agent used as an effective home care system by the patient to enhance oral hygiene.

This is sometimes seen when a patient is asked to reach out and touch someone's finger or touch his or her own nose.

For example, when a patient is flexing his or her elbow isometrically against a resistance.

Also, when the patient is standing with arms and hands extended toward the physician, if the eyes are closed, the patient's finger will tend to " fall down " and then be restored to the horizontal extended position by sudden muscular contractions ( the " ataxic hand ").

Speech is fluent and effortless with intact syntax and grammar, but the patient has problems with the selection of nouns.

Hamacher is a patient at the Catholic hospital where Paul and Albert Kropp are temporarily stationed.

Modafinil is unique in its effect on sleep ; it increases alertness and reduces drowsiness while the patient is active, but does not inhibit normal sleep.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

The patient himself denied that he had any visual imagery at all ; ;

Quite naturally, they make the investigation, first, by prohibiting the patient from making any movements at all and then, later, by repeating it and allowing the patient to move in any way he wanted to.

When the patient was not allowed to move his body in any way at all, the following striking results occurred.

I stood at the bedside of my patient one day and beheld a very sick man in terrible pain.

The word " extreme " ( final ) indicated either that it was the last of the sacramental unctions ( after the anointings at Baptism, Confirmation and, if received, Holy Orders ) or because at that time it was normally administered only when a patient was in extremis.

In 1901, Dr. Alzheimer observed a patient at the Frankfurt Asylum named Auguste Deter.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

Decorticate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the patient has arms flexed at the elbow, and arms adducted toward the body, with both legs extended.

Dosage of chemotherapy can be difficult: If the dose is too low, it will be ineffective against the tumor, whereas, at excessive doses, the toxicity ( side-effects, neutropenia ) will be intolerable to the patient.

Care of diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases necessitates understanding the patient at the personal and social level as well as the molecular, and the physician – patient relationship can be an important therapeutic process.

In the Netherlands, euthanasia is understood as " termination of life by a doctor at the request of a patient ".

West's Encyclopedia of American Law states that " a ' mercy killing ' or euthanasia is generally considered to be a criminal homicide " and is normally used as a synonym of homicide committed at a request made by the patient.

Unlike physician-assisted suicide, withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments with patient consent ( voluntary ) is almost unanimously considered, at least in the United States, to be legal.

Once the depression is alleviated, or at least under control, the patient is better able to focus on treatments that target the aphasia than if the order of treatments was reversed.

Kraepelin proposed that by studying case histories and identifying specific disorders, the progression of mental illness could be predicted, after taking into account individual differences in personality and patient age at the onset of disease.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

Immediately thereafter, the patient fractures her rehearsed story, veering into an oversoft, breathy, sloppily articulated, `` I don't feel like talking right now ''.

( This patient, in actuality, was a neurasthenic who had almost come to the point of accepting the fact that it was not her soma but her psyche that was the cause of her difficulty.

That done, I told Miss Groggins to take her patient back to bed and again put her out of my mind.

Physicians can find evidence of sensory ataxia during physical examination by having the patient stand with his / her feet together and eyes shut.

The practice of BSI was common in Pre-Hospital care and Emergency Medical Services due to the often unknown nature of the patient and his / her disease or medical conditions.

An option for treating partners of patients ( index cases ) diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea is patient-delivered partner therapy ( PDT or PDPT ), which is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of index cases by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his / her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.

Theoretically, as seen below, a jamais vu feeling in a sufferer of a delirious disorder or intoxication could result in a delirious explanation of it, such as in the Capgras delusion, in which the patient takes a person known by him or her for a false double or impostor.

When the patient brings about his or her own death with the assistance of a physician, the term assisted suicide is often used instead.

In 1774, Mesmer produced an " artificial tide " in a patient by having her swallow a preparation containing iron, and then attaching magnets to various parts of her body.

In 2007, a rheumatoid arthritis patient died from an infection in a gene therapy trial ; a subsequent investigation concluded that the death was not related to her gene therapy treatment.

To achieve the best balance of blood sugar with either intensive / flexible method, a patient must check his or her glucose level with a meter monitoring of blood glucose several times a day.

::( c ) because of the person's mental illness, the person should be admitted and detained for treatment as an involuntary patient for his or her health or safety ( whether to prevent a deterioration in the person's physical or mental condition or otherwise ) or for the protection of members of the public ; and

Most birthstools or chairs had backs which the patient could press against, but Soranus suggests that in some cases the chairs were backless and an assistant would stand behind the mother to support her.

A patient sits in the birthing chair, gripping the handles and the midwife ’ s assistant stands behind her providing support.

It is committed by a professional or her / his subordinates or agents on behalf of a client or patient that causes damages to the client or patient.

* In the episode " Cut " of Law & Order, a surgeon prescribes painkillers that interact with an MAOI a patient was taking, leading to her death.