Competent patients have the legal right to refuse treatment, and there is some serious disagreement among scholars about how to determine competency and about how much competency is needed to make definitive decisions in varying circumstances.
With girlfriends, we traded smug anecdotes about how much more competent we were at soothing babies to sleep, how the guys would inevitably forget the diaper-rash cream or buy the wrong baby cereal.
And now that we know that the Clinton state department can't even keep its own internal messaging secure, just how much more competent can the Obama administration claim to be?
Or how much more competent they feel knowing they can assess and treat for hemorrhage and other complications immediately when a patient delivers in the middle of the night instead of having to wait for daylight to see that she's losing too much blood.
How much of our lives do those busy, competent engineers, those mathematicians in their "sanctum," really control?
(General School Resources: Technologically competent staff) X ACBG10AG How much is your school's capacity to provide instruction affected by a shortage or inadequacy of the following?
This ties back to being judged as not competent enough, no matter how much I do.
At the beginning of the semester, just before spring break, and at the end of the semester, students were asked to fill out a survey in which they were asked six questions, on a scale from 0 to 10 (0, worst; 10, best): 1) How much do you like biology? 2) How competent are you in biology? 3) How much do you like mathematics?
Bin Laden's death shows how much better the intelligence has gotten, and how much more competent.
It is unclear how much training and how many ultrasound-guided catheter placements should be required to become competent in the procedure. .
It is unclear how much training and how many ultrasound-guided catheter placements should be required to become competent in the procedure.
