Patients
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And so I feel so blessed with everything that I have, that two days a week I go and I counsel HIV
patients.
Today, we medical researchers are committed to having Rebecca and people like her be one of the last
patients
that we fail.
And at Mayo Clinic, we really have the tools to make a difference for patients, thanks to the generous donations and grants to fund our research.
And today, we have more than 10 clinically approved nanoparticles for cancer that are given to
patients
all over the world.
Yet, we have patients, like Rebecca, who die.
And we keep going, thanks to inspiration from
patients.
And I believe that if we keep working on these nanomedicines, we will be able to reduce harm to healthy organs, improve quality of life and save future
patients.
I've always wanted to treat
patients.
Then, from tissues or blood of patients, we measure masses of metabolites and find the masses that are changed in a disease.
And by collecting more and more data about metabolites and understanding how changes in metabolites leads to developing diseases, our algorithms will get smarter and smarter to discover the right therapeutics for the right
patients.
Nearly everything we tell doctors and everything we tell
patients
is based on the idea that we behave rationally.
If that were true, then all we need to do is to find the perfect payment system for doctors or the perfect co-payments and deductibles for patients, and everything would work out.
My favorite one was this: "Hard work pays off in the future, but laziness pays off right now." (Laughter) And
patients
also have present bias.
Almost half of the
patients
who are prescribed high blood pressure pills stop taking them within a year.
We've done a bunch of experiments with
patients
in which we give them these electronic pill bottles so we can tell whether they're taking their medication or not.
Well, it turns out,
patients
hate that.
And now we're using loss-framed incentives to help
patients
walk more, lose weight and take their medications.
We have doctors and
patients
who already want to do the right thing.
And at least 40
patients
are expected to go to a PHC every day.
But in Rajasthan, only one out of four PHCs was seeing this minimum number of
patients.
In practice, instead, it has meant much more electronic paperwork and physicians are now complaining that they have less, rather than more time to see
patients
individually.
And that time results in fatigue, stress and, once more, the neglect of the problems of real
patients.
As doctors, we see our
patients
who have chronic illnesses in an episodic way.
In between, the
patients
have to learn how to make a lot of decisions for themselves.
To illustrate this concept of culturally congruent coaching, I want to tell you about one of our
patients.
The relationship and the conversation between Anne and Ms. Bertha illustrates what's possible when we have conversations with our patients, our friends and our neighbors on a deep cultural level.
Patients
experience continuous inflammation in the joints and at the sites where ligaments and tendons attach to bones, even without any initial injury.
Some
patients
experience slightly blurred vision that can’t be corrected by glasses.
The difference between the two eyes is small enough that most
patients
can merge their vision, allowing both eyes to work together at all distances.
However, new enzymes may soon enable PKU
patients
to eat whatever they want.
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