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During the 1970s, two international studies demonstrated that US psychiatrists diagnosed about twice as many
patients
as having schizophrenia as psychiatrists in other countries, where psychoanalytic training was relatively uncommon.
International comparisons carried out by the World Health Organization show that as long as psychiatrists from different countries are trained to interview
patients
using a standardized format, they can agree on who is suffering from schizophrenia.
But
patients
and their families and friends need not worry excessively.
But, in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach communities, technology is revolutionizing patients’ engagement with modern medicine.
By linking these communities to a communications hub, nurses, doctors, and specialists were digitally available 24 hours a day, offering immediate support to
patients
and community-based health workers (CHWs).
Each referral that was avoided saved patients, on average, 110 Ghanaian cedis ($25), and the high success rate of closed cases reduced waiting times in clinics.
We have heard many stories of
patients
whose lives were affected by this digital-health innovation; one in particular sticks with us.
In developed countries, too, telemedicine is revolutionizing how
patients
interact with medical professionals.
In Europe, doctors link up with
patients
by phone and email to advise on immediate and long-term care.
And across Africa, NGOs like Doctors Without Borders use telemedicine to connect difficult-to-treat
patients
to specialists in distant countries.
As a result,
patients
are denied access to the medicines they need.
This poses dangers for non-HIV
patients
as well, especially those with suppressed immune systems, young children, and infants.
By creating a joint venture “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” the initiative aims to do something remarkable: put
patients
first.
Moreover, if the new venture brings big-data analysis and artificial intelligence applications to the clerical side of health care, total spending will naturally decline, and lower prices can be passed on to
patients
and payers.
The Truth about Medical ConsentLONDON – Is it acceptable for doctors to withhold information from their
patients?
In his influential 1803 text Medical Ethics, the English physician Thomas Percival described the doctor’s role as “the minister of hope and comfort to the sick,” noting that at times they should conceal alarming information from their
patients.
The Canadian physician William Osler (whose
patients
included Walt Whitman) was another fervent believer in the healing power of hope.
This can lead
patients
to consent to procedures that they do not understand – or want.
As patients, future patients, or relatives, we all have an interest in raising the standards of consent.
Furthermore, while
patients
are the consumers, the actual buyers are often governments.
So it should come as no surprise when policymakers insist that the industry’s efforts at innovation be channeled into areas that provide the most benefit to taxpayers and patients, rather than those – like financial maneuvers – that might be most profitable for the industry in the short term.
TAMPA –
Patients
and politicians increasingly demand a “cure” for cancer.
Yet, in much of Africa, a lack of affordable medications, and a dearth of trained doctors and nurses, means that
patients
rarely receive the care they need.
But geography should never be the deciding factor in patients’ fight to survive the disease.
In Catholic hospitals everywhere, respirators and other forms of life support are withdrawn from
patients
when the burdens of continuing the treatment are judged “disproportionate” to the benefits likely to be achieved.
Patients
requesting euthanasia judge that the benefits of continued life do not outweigh the burdens of treatment, or of continuing to live, with or without treatment.
If the number of those who meet the requirements of the law is so small that Belgium has had only one case over the past two years, it is not difficult to carry out a thorough examination of these patients’ capacities to make such a request.
Blood QuestWASHINGTON, DC – In most developed countries,
patients
can be confident about the safety of blood transfusions.
Experts nonetheless believe that hemoglobin-based products can be used to save the lives of trauma patients, as well as to treat
patients
who object to donated blood on religious grounds (for example, Jehovah’s Witnesses).
Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of
patients.
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