Sentence examples for patients picking from inspiring English sources

In the small town of Pulaski, Va., the police have instituted a program in which patients picking up OxyContin prescriptions from local pharmacies must give their fingerprints, a development that has alarmed civil liberties advocates.

The industry's own report suggests that using Medicare rates as a benchmark will lead to patients' picking up much more of the cost for out-of-network care, whether they carefully select a specialist or, as in the case of Mr. Gonzalez and many others, have no choice in the matter.

Back in London, I find a 2008 paper on morgellons in the journal Dermatologic Therapy that describes patients picking "at their skin continuously in order to 'extract' an organism"; "obsessive cleaning rituals, showering often" and individuals going "to many physicians, such as infectious disease specialists and dermatologists" – all behaviours "consistent with DOP".

Six (30.0%) of these 20 postprimary patients had shared meals with index patients (picking up food with their fingers from the same plate).

Such emphasis on infection prevention will tend to minimize the possibility of patients picking up 'hospital-based infections' while visiting the clinical mentoring health facilities.

Make the patients pick up written script," said the doctor, using the medical shorthand for prescriptions.

Two million patients pick up infections in American hospitals, most because someone didn't follow basic antiseptic precautions.

Hospitals have begun installing Internet systems, complete with dedicated shopping channels, to help patients pick up goods they will need for their recuperation.

Patients pick an operation — usually after seeing it touted online, on TV or in magazines — and are referred by a national organization to a doctor.

Studies in which the patients pick their own treatment are not considered definitive, because they are not as reliable scientifically as experiments in which the treatment group and the controls are picked at random.

[C5.] PATIENTS STAY CONNECTED In a kind of shopping therapy, hospitals have begun installing Internet systems, with dedicated shopping channels to help patients pick up goods for their recuperation.