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Refugee doctors can also help ensure that the flood of new
patients
does not overwhelm host countries’ health-care systems.
Moreover, refugee
patients
benefit when treated by doctors who understand their circumstances, including the enormous psychosocial stress that displacement causes.
Doctors who understand refugees emotionally and culturally are better equipped to put
patients
at ease.
The goal is to enable qualified Syrian professionals to treat refugee patients, thus mitigating the language and logistical barriers to effective, accessible, and dignified care.
In Lebanon and Jordan, for example, where more than 1.6 million registered Syrian refugees currently live, efforts to allow Syrian doctors to care for refugee
patients
have been criminalized.
Two dimensions of the issue must be addressed if refugee
patients
are ever to be properly cared for, and refugee doctors properly deployed.
A doctor watched critically as each of the
patients
tested their new feet.
Saying No to Medical TechnologyAs is recommended for all patients, DeBakey had an advance directive: he had stated, while in good health, what approach to medical care he would want if he became ill and unable to speak for himself.
A cardinal principle of contemporary medical ethics is that
patients
have the right to make this type of decision, and that physicians are obligated to follow their wishes.
To disregard a patient’s preferences once he loses the ability to make decisions – as occurred when DeBakey’s wife reportedly stormed into a late-night hospital ethics committee meeting and demanded that the surgery take place – violates the hard-won respect for patients’ autonomy gained over the past 20 years.
The risks were high: in a group of elderly
patients
who had the procedure, the oldest of whom was 77, 18% died while hospitalized.
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator can jolt the heart back to normal if an irregular, life-threatening rhythm develops in
patients
who have had a heart attack.
The left ventricular assistance device is a partial artificial heart used in
patients
dying of heart failure.
Sophisticated biopharmaceuticals – drugs typically used in
patients
with extremely advanced cancers – are also multiplying.
It has brought hope to millions of
patients
suffering from previously fatal organ failure.
Most important, the ACA is providing incentives for the creation of “affordable care organizations,” “bundled payment systems,” and other delivery innovations to encourage better coordination of care, especially for
patients
with numerous chronic conditions.
Such
patients
are among the 10% who account for an estimated 64% of overall health care costs.
For example, responding to the ACA’s incentives and flexibility, Arkansas and Oregon have launched bold experiments to revamp Medicaid, in part by rewarding health-care providers who deliver better outcomes and keep
patients
healthier.
In Camden, New Jersey, Jeffrey Brenner, a family doctor, has pioneered strategies to reduce hospital stays by “super-utilizers,” a small share of Medicaid
patients
who are frequently admitted for expensive acute care.
The most expensive 1% of patients, those with a tangle of issues, accounted for 30% of Camden’s public health-care spending.
In the United States, the quantity of available opioids – that is, drugs with morphine-like effects on pain – is more than three times what
patients
in need of palliative care require.
And
patients
suffering a few months of agony at the end of life are often not well positioned to demand better treatment.
But this requires treating drug users not as criminals to be incarcerated, but as
patients
to be cared for.
This foray into the uncanny is as close as most people come to experiencing auditory hallucinations or "hearing voices," a condition that affects 70% of
patients
with schizophrenia and 15% of
patients
with mood disorders such as mania or depression.
So far, most
patients
appear to experience significant improvements from TMS directed to both brain regions, with improvements lasting from two months to over a year.
The first is based on studies suggesting that schizophrenia
patients
suffer from reduced brain connectivity.
This view has become the focus of efforts to understand and help
patients
with mental illness quiet their minds.
As Chan and Amano point out:“[M]ost lack the funds, equipment, and qualified personnel needed to provide basic care for cancer
patients.
Another is advancing drug therapies tailored to the needs of individual
patients.
Hospitals are turning away
patients
who have only old banknotes; families cannot buy food; and middle-class workers are unable to buy needed medicine.
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