The Mini-Mental State Examination was used to examine patients' global (intellectual) cognitive abilities.
TB dispensary doctors prescribe treatment and examine patients during follow-up medical examinations while township and village doctors monitor treatment.
Earning a medical degree requires a student to interview and examine patients, often in intimate circumstances.
That allows stroke neurologists at the Harvard hospitals to examine patients remotely and assist the emergency room doctor in deciding whether to give tPA.
Two studies showed that doctors and nurses were half as likely to enter the rooms of or to examine patients on contact precautions.
"They'd think you were crazy!" It's true that teaching hospitals are busier than ever, and residents probably have less time to examine patients.
Dr Giles Maskell, president of the Royal College of Radiologists, whose 3,000 members examine patients' scan results, said it was "very concerned by these figures which reflect the extreme pressure on imaging services.
The network provides a live out of hours link between stroke consultants and patients in emergency wards equipped with a Polycom "telecart", or mobile video conferencing unit, which includes a camera through which consultants can remotely examine patients.
The action follows a complaint by the North Carolina Medical Board in October against Dr. Talley charging that he had failed, among other things, to examine patients properly before prescribing narcotics or to monitor how they used the drugs.
In some ways, their job is much as it has been for millennia: they examine patients, diagnose their ailments and try to make them better.
Technology, like these cameras and screens, is making it affordable and effective for doctors to examine patients without actually being there.
