Overcoming these anxieties and having the tough conversations anyway is one of a top leader's most difficult challenges — critically needed yet chronically hard to do.
And when Greece and other chronically indebted eurozone members needed urgent help to rescue them from sovereign default or a forced exit from the euro system, Germany dragged its feet, provoking widespread criticism from abroad.
However, more evidence within the population of parents of chronically ill children is needed.
Nevertheless, since both AICAR and activated AMPK determine a host of pleiotropic effects on different regulatory and homeostatic pathways (Cantó et al., 2010), prolonged observation on chronically treated animals is needed to establish treatment safety and eventual translatability to humans.
A chronically depressed patient, needing medication and psychotherapy, will run out of insurance benefits before the end of the year.
To achieve this, the number of chronically undernourished people needs to be cut by 40 per cent to 500 million by 2015.
And all the time, we watch healthy Conservative MPs stand in parliament and declare that disabled and chronically ill people need an "incentive" to work.
The government has no interest in researching the policy, because it has never been about facts but the belief that disabled and chronically ill people need the "incentive" of having their benefit cut to get a job.
But, she maintains, the entire spectrum of caregiving -- from specialized technical care to the grueling and emotional haul of caring for a chronically ill relative -- needs to be re-evaluated.
But patients, especially the chronically ill, often need access to their own medical records, says PicnicHealth co-founder Noga Leviner.
Kerr says if your boss is chronically away, you need to communicate to your boss how much and how frequently you need feedback to feel comfortable doing your work at its best level.
