From a doctor-patient perspective, it's been the single best thing that has happened to this subject".
They come in with all these confusions; they don't understand the difference between chemotherapy and radiation (and from a doctor's perspective, there's a huge difference).
"Even from a doctor's perspective, there is such a thing as too much data.
From a doctor's perspective, for instance, replacement surgery might seem like a no-brainer for a patient with a bad knee, Fisher says.
"Physicians are experts on likely outcomes, likely effects and side effects," says Dr. Elliott Fisher, a professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H. "But patients are experts on their preferences". From a doctor's perspective, for instance, replacement surgery might seem like a no-brainer for a patient with a bad knee, Fisher says.
But Archie Lamb of Birmingham, Ala., the lead lawyer in a group of lawsuits filed by doctors against the insurers, said that "from the doctors' perspective, any discussions at all are extremely premature".
As far as we know, this is the only study that has examined patients' experiences of COPD from the doctors' perspective.
Our study shows that, from the doctors' perspective in being prepared for year one, medical school training has improved substantially over time.
Hence, from the doctors' perspective, unrealistic parental expectations for cure were considered to be the biggest barrier that impacted on implementation of best-practice guidance.
Further research in this area should address the following: qualitative analysis of doctors' opinions, assessment of various combinations of managed care tools from the doctors' perspective, and assessment of the opinions of the general public regarding these policies.
