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You should understand that Veronica, like a lot of
patients
that I have the privilege of caring for, is a dignified person, a formidable presence, a personality that's larger than life, but here she was doubled over in pain sitting on my exam table.
In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians, over 1,000 physicians, 80 percent of them actually said that they know that their
patients'
upstream problems are as important as their health issues, as their medical problems, and yet despite that widespread awareness of the importance of upstream issues, only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues, to improve health where it begins.
There's this gap between knowing that
patients'
lives, the context of where they live and work, matters, and the ability to do something about it in the systems in which we work.
First, they sit down and they say, let's identify the clinical problem among a certain set of
patients.
They mobilize the resources to create a solution, both within the clinical system, and then by bringing in people from public health, from other sectors, lawyers, whoever is willing to play ball, let's bring in to create a solution that makes sense, to take those
patients
who actually have clinical problems and address their root causes together by linking them to the resources you need.
Doctors and nurses can get better at asking about the context of
patients'
lives, not simply because it's better bedside manner, but frankly, because it's a better standard of care.
Let's see if we can discover some patterns in our data about our
patients'
lives and see if we can identify an upstream cause, and then, as importantly, can we align the resources to be able to address them?
What do we do as
patients?
Looking back, I am extremely grateful for the positive response that I received, not only from academia, but also patients, and people around the world affected by this terrible disease.
Having responded to many cases since then where
patients
were in their last moments and there was nothing I could do for them, in almost every case, they have all had the same reaction to the truth, of inner peace and acceptance.
Third, they learn public health: to assess their
patients'
drinking water, housing, social and economic conditions.
The first
patients
walked through the doors in December 2007, and since then, the hospital has received nearly one million patient visits.
They spoke easily to each other in Spanish and listened to their
patients
in Creole thanks to Haitian medical students flown in from ELAM in Cuba.
In the worst cases, there are simply not enough jobs in the public health sector, where most poor people are treated, not enough political will, not enough resources, not enough anything — just too many
patients
with no care.
They need the chance to be the doctors their
patients
need.
She is well trained, can be counted on, and shares the face and culture of her patients, and she deserves our support surely, because whether by subway, mule, or canoe, she is teaching us to walk the walk.
But in
patients
with Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-beta builds up and aggregates in the spaces between the brain's cells, instead of being cleared away like it's supposed to be, and it's this buildup of amyloid-beta that's thought to be one of the key steps in the development of that terrible disease.
A series of recent clinical studies suggest that among
patients
who haven't yet developed Alzheimer's disease, worsening sleep quality and sleep duration are associated with a greater amount of amyloid-beta building up in the brain, and while it's important to point out that these studies don't prove that lack of sleep or poor sleep cause Alzheimer's disease, they do suggest that the failure of the brain to keep its house clean by clearing away waste like amyloid-beta may contribute to the development of conditions like Alzheimer's.
So as businesspeople, as consumers, as patients, as citizens, we have a responsibility, I think, to spend more time focusing on our critical thinking skills.
Now it's rare that
patients
will explode, but it does still happen.
One of the other things that I loved about being a chaplain was seeing
patients
a year, or even several years after their treatment, because it was just really cool to see how they had changed and how their lives had evolved and what had happened to them.
Now, antibiotics have been used for
patients
like this, but they've also been used rather frivolously in some instances, for treating someone with just a cold or the flu, which they might not have responded to an antibiotic, and they've also been used in large quantities sub-therapeutically, which means in small concentrations, to make chicken and hogs grow faster.
If we taught doctors how not to use antibiotics as much, if we taught
patients
how not to demand antibiotics, perhaps this really wouldn't be an issue, and maybe the pharmaceutical companies should be working harder to develop more antibiotics.
This is what economists might call a problem of the commons, and the problem of the commons is exactly what we face in the case of antibiotics as well: that we don't consider — and we, including individuals, patients, hospitals, entire health systems — do not consider the costs that they impose on others by the way antibiotics are actually used.
Thousands of
patients
are dying because the second-line drugs are so expensive, and in some instances, even those don't work and you have XDR TB.
Of course,
patients
are scared when they come to the doctor.
But it's not just
patients
who are scared; doctors are scared too.
We're scared of
patients
finding out who we are and what medicine is all about.
Can we bridge this disconnect between what
patients
need and what doctors do?
What if doctors were to become totally transparent with their
patients?
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