Studies relating to rheumatology rehabilitation have shown that patients improve after a rehabilitation stay, but that statistically significant improvement often is lost at follow up [ 27, 28].
Many depressed patients improve no matter what, he says, and it's easy to attribute improvement to a drug.
Most satisfying result: Seeing patients improve and be discharged back to the ward.
If patients improve with infusions of young plasma, scientists will be ecstatic.
If antiviral drugs make patients improve, that will also help make the case against the virus, he said.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Geddes said that, like other clinicians, he had seen patients improve remarkably on the newer medications.
More important, Dr. Wampold said, was the individual therapist: some could help their patients improve significantly in eight sessions or so, others could not.
(Some patients improve, but prospects for recovery are largely determined by the extent and nature of the damage to the drive system).
He told me he'd also seen some of his autoimmune arthritis patients improve by removing gluten from their diet.
But it also works the other way around: the free patients improve service and price for patients who pay.
Most patients improve quickly, although neurological damage is seldom fully reversible and atrophy of the parietal cells and achlorhydria persist.
