There was fierce competition among patients for a spot in the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, which began as a $280,000 pilot initiative last May.
And I can say from personal experience — since I've known him, he's provided guidance that helped save the lives of three members of my family — that he is a fierce, sensitive and generous patient advocate.
There is fierce competition for such patients.
Dr. Pou was known among fellow doctors as a fierce advocate for her patients and a prominent specialist in the difficult field of endocrine surgery.
As the scene builds from patient persuasion to fierce exasperation and anger, Mr. Clooney illuminates every turn of Clayton's thoughts.
The prospect of a $100,000-a-year 100,000-a-year 100,000-a-yeart of fierce criticism from some drugors, patient advocates, the news madea and politicians.
Now a new study of chronic fatigue syndrome has highlighted how competing case definitions can lead to an epidemiologic "Rashomon" — what you see depends on who's doing the looking — and has stoked a fierce debate among researchers and patient advocates on both sides of the Atlantic.
Christina is a beautiful young widow, a devoted mother and a fierce, selfless champion of the patients and her overworked, underappreciated nursing staff.
Yet this policing clashes with the doctor's fierce instinct to take his patients' side and to confide in them about, say, his own reliance on antidepressants or his girlfriend's routine of reading recovery books while eating licorice in bed.
Its not surprising that his mantra has gone, as the Washington Post reports, from the "fierce urgency of now," to " Be patient, democracy is big and tough and messy".
