Thus the diagnosis " often says more about the clinician's negative reaction to the patient than it does about the patient ... as an expression of counter transference hate, borderline explains away the breakdown in empathy between the therapist and the patient and becomes an institutional epithet in the guise of pseudoscientific jargon ".

In these instances, the genetic counselor explains the condition to the patient along with recurrence risks in future children.

An advocate for FAS: ( 1 ) interprets FAS and the disabilities that arise from it and explains it to the environment in which the patient operates, ( 2 ) engenders change or accommodation on behalf of the patient, and ( 3 ) assists the patient in developing and reaching attainable goals.

Kutner, who has formed an emotional bond with the patient, explains to her adoptive parents that her alcoholism was caused by a needle which had embedding itself in the portion of her brain that controls addictive behavior.

This explains the growing trend of creating healthcare environments that make not only the patient, but also their loved ones feel like they can relax and maybe even forget that they ’ re at the hospital.

The first time, he explains, the creature was trying to rescue the organism Mora had contained in the science lab ; the second time, it appeared in the Infirmary, where Mora was a patient ; and the third time, Odo and Mora were in the middle of a heated debate.

An important first step is a discussion with the patient that explains their diagnosis in a sensitive and open manner.

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.

Years of patient application of compost and leaf mulching has changed the structure of the soil and its water-holding capacity.

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

Only when the side-effects have become too severe and / or a patient has been symptom-free for a long period of time is discontinuation carefully attempted.

The age of the patient and the frequency with which BCG is given has always varied from country to country.

The biotechnology industry has also been instrumental in developing molecular diagnostic devices that can be used to define the target patient population for a given biopharmaceutical.

Withdrawal is best managed by transferring the physically dependent patient to an equivalent dose of diazepam because it has the longest half-life of all of the benzodiazepines, is metabolised into long-acting active metabolites and is available in low-potency tablets, which can be quartered for smaller doses.

It has been attributed to only three people on parenteral nutrition, which is when a patient is fed a liquid diet through intravenous drips.

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.

Cognitive psychology has also influenced the area of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( CBT ) where the combination of cognitive and behavioral psychology are used to treat a patient.

However, he has a habit of treating his patients in bizarre and often disturbing ways, such as prescribing heroin for a cold, making a man with a headache jump up and down in order to make his penis swing ( while mirroring the patient's bewildered jumping himself ) and making a patient leave and go in to the next room so he can examine him over the telephone.

The dependence on the vagal effect means digitalis is not effective when a patient has a high sympathetic nervous system drive, which is the case with acutely ill persons, and also during exercise.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

Studies of CIAT have shown that further improvement is possible even after a patient has reached a " plateau " period of recovery.

Much research has focused on the use of adenoviruses that cannot reproduce, or reproduce only to a limited extent, within the patient to ensure safety via the avoidance of cytolytic destruction of noncancerous cells infected with the vector.

Garcia-Ballester says the following of Galen ’ s use of prognosis: " In modern medicine, we are used to distinguishing between the diagnostic judgment ( the scientific knowledge of what a patient has ) and the prognostic judgment ( the conjecture about what will happen to him.

When severe hypoglycemia has persisted in a hospitalized patient, the amount of glucose required to maintain satisfactory blood glucose levels becomes an important clue to the underlying etiology.

Sentence completion had since then also been used extensively in memory research, especially in tapping into measures of implicit memory, and also has been used in psychotherapy as a tool to help tap into the motivations and drives of the patient.

The authority which the magisterium enjoys by the will of Christ exists so that the moral conscience can attain the truth with security and remain in it .” John Paul quoted Humanae Vitae as a compassionate encyclical, " Christ has come not to judge the world but to save it, and while he was uncompromisingly stern towards sin, he was patient and rich in mercy towards sinners ".

Hydrocodone can usually be successfully used with duloxetine ( Cymbalta ) for neuropathic pain, especially that from diabetic neuropathy, provided that the patient has normal relative and absolute levels of Cytochrome P450-related liver enzymes.

A useful and simple way to distinguish between physiological and psychological impotence is to determine whether the patient ever has an erection.

A licensed physician, psychologist, social worker, or nurse practitioner who has examined the patient or a police officer may bring a potential patient to the emergency room for forced evaluation without approval from a judge.

A more modern use of the word is in reference to a mental illness called lycanthropy in which a patient believes he or she is, or has transformed into, an animal and behaves accordingly.

The treatment can be physically exhausting for the patient, who might already be very tired from cancer-related fatigue.

Some vaccines are administered after the patient already has contracted a disease.

If a patient is already in the hospital for another reason, and develops an emergency condition, EMTALA similarly does not apply.

* Hospitals may not deny or provide substandard services to a patient who already has outstanding debt to the hospital, and may not withhold the patient's belongings, records, or other required services until the patient pays.

Vaccines are very effective on stable viruses, but are of limited use in treating a patient who has already been infected.

However, in the United States most insurance plans will not cover surgical diagnosis unless the patient has already attempted to become pregnant and failed.

However, blood sugar levels, when changing rapidly, may read in the normal range on a CGM system while in reality the patient is already experiencing symptoms of an out-of-range blood glucose value and may require treatment.

Instead of developing a political analysis of the state we live in, instead of undertaking the patient and unsparing job of education which must precede even a pre-revolutionary situation, Oz behaved as though the revolution had already happened.

Encryption for e-mail had already been in use for some time but is now the renewed focus of internal security practices for sending e-mail containing patient information.

Independent infections of mononucleosis may be contracted multiple times, regardless of whether the patient is already carrying the virus dormantly.

Protection of medical staff from already absorbed and systemically distributed BZ in a patient is not needed.

General supportive management of the patient includes decontamination of skin and clothing ( ineffective for already absorbed agent but useful in preventing further absorption of any agent still in contact with the patient ), confiscation of weapons and related items from the patient, and observation.

Cardiac arrest may occur in the ED / A & E or a patient may be transported by ambulance to the emergency department already in this state.

Patient satisfaction metrics, already commonly collected by physician groups and hospitals, are useful in demonstrating the impact of changes in patient perception of care over time.

* Opioid detoxification has been associated with provocation of RLS-like symptoms during withdrawal ( opiate withdrawal may also " trigger " the syndrome if the patient already has RLS ).

Usually, this involves a disease for which no effective therapy exists, or a patient who has already attempted and failed all other standard treatments and whose health is so poor, he does not qualify for participation in randomized clinical trials.

If the patient has already suffered a cardiac arrest, pericardiocentesis alone cannot ensure survival, and so rapid evacuation to a hospital is usually the more appropriate course of action.

The American Psychiatric Association states in their official statement release on the matter: " The potential risks of ' reparative therapy ' are great and include depression, anxiety, and self-destructive behavior, since therapist alignment with societal prejudices against homosexuality may reinforce self-hatred already experienced by the patient.

Optionally, if the procedure is carried out under sedation or general anesthesia, the patient may awaken having already achieved what is usually the hardest first step: the insertion of a dilator.

As eclampsia is a manifestation of a multiorgan failure, other organs ( liver, kidney, lungs, cardiovascular system, and coagulation system ) need to be assessed in preparation for a delivery ( often a caesarean section ), unless the patient is already in advanced labour.

( In fact, the patient would already have high glucagon levels.

On the other hand, he advised against the use of acupuncture in an already deficient ( weak ) patient, on the grounds that needle manipulation would leak too much energy.