180 articles on "patient"

Traditional Medical Records vs Electronic Medical Records

A paper patient record is recognized by name, serial, membership, reference or medical record number, and other identifiers that make it easier to find in the physical filing system. It takes long time to sort thousands of files, whenever patient or ...

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How Hip Replacements Are Done

It is amazing how advances in medicine and medical research now enable physicians to treat patients in so many new ways. In past years, when patients suffered from severe arthritis that affected and inflamed their joints, all the patients could do wa...

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Perception...What Are Your Patients REALLY Hearing

Perception…What Are Your Patients REALLY Hearing?Copyright © 2003 Livvie MatthewsNever underestimate the power of perception! Perceptionplays a major part in what is actually said -vs- how it is heard.And to patients...perception is reality! F...

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Jury Awards $2.75 Million To Advanced Prostate Cancer Patient Whose Doctor Did Only Partial Screening

Prostate cancer strikes African-American males earlier and frequently more aggressively than the rest of the population. Men of African-American descent are at higher risk of having prostate cancer at a younger age. Due to this, doctors typically agr...

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The Hottest Cosmetic Surgery Trends Today

The Hottest Cosmetic Surgery Trends Today  by: Dakota Caudilla Today, cosmetic surgery is an extremely common procedure carried out on both the young and the old. Most cosmetic surgery patients want to look good, nip and tuck a little bit here a...

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African-American Males Compensated By Physicians For Prostate Cancer Metastasizes Due To Delay In Diagnosis

In what follows we look at two claims that provide some an understanding of the advantages of testing men for prostate cancer. Although there has been some debate recently on the worth of screening men for prostate cancer (specifically regarding the ...

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How Journaling Can Positively Impact Your Physical Health

How Journaling Can Positively Impact Your Physical Health by: Patti Testerman According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, writing about stressful life events helped reduce symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis in patients...

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A Frequent Medical Mistake - Believing A Female Patient's Lump Is Simply A Cyst Instead Of Cancer

Receiving news that one has cancer is something no one wants to hear It is no surprise that a female patient can think it is very reassuring if her physician notifies her that she just has fibrocystic breast changes and that it is not necessary to be...

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Man Finds He Has Metastatic Prostate Cancer After 5 Years Of Symptoms And Abnormal Tests

Prostate cancer is a frightening disease. While not 100% accurate doctors use diagnostics tests to doctors to establish whether a patient has the cancer. But with the prospect of false negatives (a negative test outcome despite the fact that the pati...

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A New Year...A New Beginning

A New Year....A New Beginning!Copyright 2004 Livvie MatthewsThe New Year, for me, has always been an exciting andhappy time! Recently while talking with some friends, I compared the New Year to a new page. The new year always brings the opportunity f...

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