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.

The most famous case in recent history is perhaps the publication of the book on François Mitterrand called Le Grand Secret in which Mitterrand's doctor published a book that not only revealed private facts about Mr. Mitterrand's life, but also revealed medical confidences protected by doctor – patient privilege.

Finally, Dr Brain used the device in a dental extraction patient, he realised that because the space in and around the glottis was filled by the mask, the need for packing was much reduced and more impressively the larynx was completely protected from surgical debris.

This breed is patient and affectionate with its owners, especially with children, who are especially protected by the females.

Since the 1980s, under the ERISA Act passed in Congress in 1974 and its preemptive effect on state common law tort lawsuits that " relate to " Employee Benefit Plans, HMOs administering benefits through private employer health plans have been protected by Federal law from malpractice litigation on the grounds that the decisions regarding patient care are administrative rather than medical in nature.

Usually, erasing the log is a feature protected by a security code, specifically to detect staff abuse of the pump or patient.

That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

Are they indifferent to the fact that the dog can easily pick up germs from the preceding patient??

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.

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.

or surprise, which would set the patient apart from other people.

It was just that she felt deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to believe that they might benefit from their treatment there.

I wondered suddenly as I listened to the disconnected jabberings coming from the patient behind me, if I had not perhaps imagined it all.

* Asthma Patient: The asthma patient receives regular visits from Dr. Rieux.

Side-effects range from mild to very serious depending on the antibiotics used, the microbial organisms targeted, and the individual patient.

Analytical chemistry plays an increasingly important role in the pharmaceutical industry where, aside from QA, it is used in discovery of new drug candidates and in clinical applications where understanding the interactions between the drug and the patient are critical.

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

When brain tissue from a CJD patient is examined under a microscope, many tiny holes can be seen where whole areas of nerve cells have died.

It may also be deliberately induced by pharmaceutical agents in order to preserve higher brain functions following brain trauma, or to save the patient from extreme pain during healing of injuries or diseases.

These infections may appear from the patient not being able to move around, and being confined to the bed.

The nursing staff will move the patient every 2 – 3 hours from side to side and depending on the state of consciousness sometimes to a chair.

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

Pregnancy testing was conducted in the mid-20th century by injecting urine from a woman into a male toad's lymph sacs, and if spermatozoa appeared in the toad's urine, the patient was deemed to be pregnant.

Spreading its reach in seventeenth-century Turkey, inoculation or, rather, variolation, involved infecting a person through a cut in the skin with exudate from a patient with a relatively mild case of smallpox ( variola ), in order to bring about a manageable and recoverable infection that will provide later immunity.

More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being " Allen ," but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of " Kirk Allen.

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

( In autologous BMTs, cells are removed from the patient before the treatment, multiplied and then re-injected afterward ; in allogenic BMTs, the source is a donor.

Commenting on the example cited by Winter, the science writer Martin Gardner asserts that " nothing could be clearer from the above dialogue than the fact that the dianetic explanation for the headache existed only in the mind of the therapist, and that it was with considerable difficulty that the patient was maneuvered into accepting it.