Patients in sentence

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I didn't just want to study patients in a hospital, but everyday people.

Jonathan, a 28-year-old law student, says he wants to find someone who is comfortable with LGBTQ patients and specializes in LGBT health.

Just because doctors have to see every patient doesn't mean that patients have to see every doctor.

We pledge to our patients that we are here to serve you, so you have a right to know who we are.

I depend on lunches from drug companies to serve patients."

My patients don't disclose their incomes to me."

But your patients' sources of income don't affect your health.

Well, how you feel about Toyotas or Cottonelle won't affect your patients' health, but your views on a woman's right to choose and preventive medicine and end-of-life decisions just might.

But then I heard from patients.

And finally, many people wrote and said, "Let us patients decide what's important when we're choosing a doctor."

But the sickness of fear has taken over, and patients suffer the consequences.

We can bridge the disconnect between what doctors do and what patients need.

Brandon Combs, an internist in Denver: "This has brought me closer to my patients.

Aaron Stupple, an internist in Denver: "I tell my patients that I am totally open with them.

When doctors are willing to step off our pedestals, take off our white coats, and show our patients who we are and what medicine is all about, that's when we begin to overcome the sickness of fear.

That's when we change the paradigm of medicine from one of secrecy and hiding to one that is fully open and engaged for our patients.

And the ALS patients, you know what their favorite ones are, and their families'?

Now, to be clear, North American zoos are staffed by highly qualified, board-certified veterinarians who take outstanding care of their animal patients.

And this procedure, which I have done on many human patients, was identical, with the exception of that paw and that tail.

Now most of the time, I was working at UCLA Medical Center with physicians, discussing symptoms and diagnoses and treatments for my human patients, but some of the time, I was working at the Los Angeles Zoo with veterinarians, discussing symptoms and diagnoses and treatments for their animal patients.

Physicians and veterinarians were essentially taking care of the same disorders in their animal and human patients: congestive heart failure, brain tumors, leukemia, diabetes, arthritis, ALS, breast cancer, even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury.

So I started wondering, with all of these overlaps, how was it that I had never thought to ask a veterinarian, or consult the veterinary literature, for insights into one of my human patients?

And this creates a psychological distance between the human patients who are being treated there and animal patients who are living in oceans and farms and jungles.

Some human patients harm themselves.

Some animal patients also harm themselves.

Shouldn't this veterinary knowledge be put into the hands of psychotherapists and parents and patients struggling with self-injury?

Shouldn't this information be put into the hands of ob/gyn's and family doctors and patients who are struggling with postpartum depression and psychosis?

And through Zoobiquity conferences, where we bring medical schools together with veterinary schools for collabortive discussions of the shared diseases and disorders of animal and human patients.

After all, we humans are animals, too, and it's time for us physicians to embrace our patients' and our own animal natures and join veterinarians in a species-spanning approach to health.

Because it turns out, some of the best and most humanistic medicine is being practiced by doctors whose patients aren't human.

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