(♀GP26_40s) Additionally, the participants felt that their patients' conditions increasingly required psychological management, which had consequences for the treating doctor.
The World Obesity Federation estimated that without urgent action, the annual global medical costs for treating the consequences of obesity will reach US$1.2 trillion per year by the year 2025.
Roger Shih, M.D. San Antonio, Aug. 21, 2007 To the Editor: While we as health care providers should work assiduously to develop systems to avoid "preventable" medical injuries and errors by taking human fallibility out of the equation, it must be remembered that some of these "complications" are the natural consequence of treating seriously ill patients for prolonged periods of time.
As a consequence, PlGF is an attractive therapeutic tool for treating ischemic diseases.
As a consequence, inhaled alginate lyase enzymes could represent powerful new therapies for treating CF lung infections.
Back in 2004 I wrote: "Rather than trying to see the future, political science might serve us better by helping citizens to create that future by clarifying the choices we face and their possible consequences for policy". In treating politics like a sporting event, we diminish the partisanship, the choices, and the fundamental values that lie at the core of politics.
How do I explain to the medical students whom I teach that reaching into your own wallet to help a poor patient afford a needed medicine may be viewed as unethical, while creating possible dire financial consequences for someone you treat so that you can collect your full fees is no cause for concern?
An understanding of the consequences of not treating, or inadequately treating, malaria and bacterial infections is essential for evaluating the benefits and risks of managing febrile illnesses.
(FYI, Nigel, this has clear-cut consequences: those being treated for HIV with antiretroviral drugs are rendered almost completely un-infectious, while those that remain untreated – currently about 24,000 in the UK – remain powerfully at risk in terms of likelihood of transmission).
