"And last Thursday he was allowed to go home to Abbeville to attend to a family concern".
Patient-centered care — benevolence — is about how a doctor attends to a patient's concerns and vulnerability.
In addition, alcohol and other drug use may lead to a greater number of sexual partners and episodes of unprotected sex due to decreased ability to attend to distal concerns, such as acquiring an STD when intoxicated or high (cf. alcohol myopia; Steele & Josephs, 1990).
He believed that President Chavez would be forced to step back substantially from the "foreign policy of oil" in order to attend to domestic concerns.
Given that society also can influence military programs (e.g., through civil protests) it is important for the military to attend to such concerns.
White males have to attend to interpersonal concerns, too, of course, but they have more latitude to ignore them if the situation seems to demand it.
Following patients' reasons for consulting, a two-way communication strategy seems to be required from the GP, including (i) affective communication to attend to patients' concerns and (ii) instrumental communication for addressing informational needs [ 18, 19].
Rwanda clearly does not trust the UN or anybody else to attend to its security concerns.
Malaysia, Canada and Australia will also attend, to assuage Chinese concerns about going behind Pyongyang's back after the North Korean regime declined to attend.
Susan Moller Okin (Okin 1989, 1979; Okin et al. 1999) and Eva Kittay (Kittay 1999) have used Rawls's work productively to extend his theory to attend to women's concerns.
The task of aspirating fluid from a model under ultrasound guidance is undoubtedly easier than taking real blood from a patient, as our subjects did not have to attend to the model's concerns or discomfort during the procedure.
