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.

Side rails on the bed should be kept up to prevent patient from falling.

The patient may be kept in the hospital for up to thirty hours.

If by then two physicians, or one physician and one psychologist then decide that the patient meets the Maryland criteria for an involuntary psychiatric admission, then he or she may be kept inpatient involuntarily for up to ten days.

Similarly Job lost everything, and stayed patient and kept faith in God, and eventually everything was returned back to him and some things were multiplied for him.

For example, whether or not a brain-dead patient ought to be kept artificially animate in order to preserve organs for procurement is an ongoing problem in clinical bioethics.

Since chemotherapy on its own is not guaranteed to completely rid the patient of disease, patients are often kept on the drugs for extended periods of times ( i. e. more than 6 months, years ).

DSPD is diagnosed by a clinical interview, actigraphic monitoring and / or a sleep diary kept by the patient for at least three weeks.

Because some injuries can cause a trauma patient to deteriorate extremely rapidly, the lag time between injury and treatment should ideally be kept to a bare minimum ; over time, this lag time has come to be specified as a now-standard time frame of no more than 60 minutes, after which time the survival rate for traumatic patients is alleged to fall off dramatically.

The historian of the Renaissance Sir John Hale cautions against too direct a linkage between Renaissance humanism and modern uses of the term: " Renaissance humanism must be kept free from any hint of either " humanitarianism " or " humanism " in its modern sense of rational, non-religious approach to life ... the word " humanism " will mislead ... if it is seen in opposition to a Christianity its students in the main wished to supplement, not contradict, through their patient excavation of the sources of ancient God-inspired wisdom "

In medieval and early modern medicine, the medicinal leech ( Hirudo medicinalis and its congeners Hirudo verbana, Hirudo troctina, and Hirudo orientalis ) was used to remove blood from a patient as part of a process to " balance " the " humors " that, according to Galen, must be kept in balance for the human body to function properly.

Also, Andy has a patient who is estranged from his daughter because he kept a secret from her for her whole life.

If this is not the case ,, the patient is generally administered a proton pump inhibitor ( e. g. omeprazole ), given blood transfusions ( if the level of hemoglobin is extremely low, that is less than 8. 0 g / dL or 4. 5 – 5. 0 mmol / L ), and kept NPO, which stands for " nil per os " ( Latin for " nothing by mouth ", or no eating or drinking ) until endoscopy can be arranged.

Air will flow out of the room instead of in, so that any airborne microorganisms ( e. g., bacteria ) that may infect the patient are kept away.

This implies that the patient ’ s oocytes should be fertilized in vitro and the embryos kept in culture until the diagnosis is established.

Keough portrayed Diane Nixon, a young patient with a kidney infection who's kept ill in order to make her doctor gain the respect he craves.

Additionally, the patient is kept on a cooling blanket for a period of time to prevent fever, which could cause brain damage.

) When his request is denied, Bondo has the cancerous liver transplanted into his own body ( the patient having signed an organ donor form ), so that the cancer will become his personal property and can be kept within the hospital.

The conforming nature of the vacuum mattress means that patients can be kept immobilised on it for longer periods of time and the immobilisation offers superior stability and comfort to the patient.

Under data protection legislation, responsibility for patient records ( irrespective of the form they are kept in ) is always on the creator and custodian of the record, usually a health care practice or facility.

This incident brings Bodo to the attention of the head doctor at the institution, and he is treated and kept as a patient.

The use of an individual dossier style medical record, where records are kept on each patient by name and illness type originated at the Mayo Clinic out of a desire to simplify patient tracking and to allow for medical research.

Red-fan Parrots, when kept as pets tend to bond with one person and require firm handling and a patient owner, experienced in both bird-keeping and the reading of psittacine body language.

Even if the patient is given succinylcholine, he can be kept intubated and sedated until the muscle relaxation resolves.