Patient
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This is one of our designers, Kristian Simsarian, and he’s putting himself through the experience of being an ER
patient.
And if the obstructed vessels supply the brain the
patient
could even suffer a stroke.
For one patient, a saturation reading of ninety-five percent corresponds to a healthy oxygen level, but for another with smaller arteries, the same reading could dangerously misrepresent the actual oxygen level.
This typifies a lot of situations in life in which you will gain by waiting, but you have to be
patient.
We were asked by a large healthcare system in Minnesota to describe to them what their
patient
experience was.
That's what it's like to be a
patient
in the hospital.
And so the first thing that pretty much every nurse did, was hold the
patient'
s hand to comfort them.
Overnight, I lost my job, my apartment, my independence, and I became
patient
number 5624.
She was a fellow cancer patient, but she had died three weeks earlier.
Every disadvantaged nation, and perhaps our own nation, becomes our
patient.
Now, he is more
patient
than I deserve and much more proactive, much more, about helping than any of us have any right to expect other people to be.
But first, let me start off by telling you about a
patient
of mine.
Explaining this to the patient, she fell silent.
But like every architect, every surgeon needs to look their
patient
in the eye and together with the patient, they need to decide on what is best for the person having the operation.
My colleagues say they never heard these words from a
patient.
Patient
pressure.
So a good doctor sometimes says no, but the sensible
patient
also turns down, sometimes, an opportunity to get diagnosed or treated.
Today, the Norwegian health minister talks about the
patient
health care service.
The
patient
is supposed to get advice from the doctor about what to do.
And in my female
patient'
s case, the answer would be no, but an operation could also be justified.
So, the
patient
was treated then with a third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic and doxycycline, and on day three, it didn't help: she had progressed to acute failure.
When I spoke to my patient, she had a much simpler and less Freudian explanation of why she didn't go to that appointment: her ride didn't show.
A second
patient
to that same clinic, a trucker, drove three days with a raging infection, only coming to see me after he had delivered his merchandise.
In San Francisco, I took care of a
patient
on the inpatient service who was from West Africa and spoke a dialect so unusual that we could only find one translator on the telephonic line who could understand him.
Unfortunately, my
patient
needed translation services every day.
I learned that a
patient
of mine who spoke English without accent was illiterate, when he asked me to please sign a social security disability form for him right away.
So when my doctors shake their heads and say, "I don't know why that
patient
didn't keep his follow-up appointments," "I don't know why she didn't go for that exam that I ordered," I think, well, maybe her ride didn't show, or maybe he had to work.
Maybe that
patient
was dealing with an abusive spouse or a daughter who is pregnant and drug-addicted or a son who was kicked out of school.
It's impossible for me to take good care of a
patient
who is homeless and living on the street.
The right prescription for a homeless
patient
is housing.
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