Some of the healthcare professionals are so that (mean)… he (conventional healthcare professional) would say 'this is inappropriate, you already visit conventional healthcare professional with a good health outcome, why you need to see TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) practitioner at the same time.' It let you feel you actually don't believe in conventional medicine (P26).
In the focus group study of practitioners done at the same time as this study, practitioners also noted that patients were "incapable of reversing 40 years of bad habits" [ 16].
The arts minister, George Brandis, said these programs "will make funding available to a wider range of arts companies and arts practitioners, while at the same time respecting the preferences and tastes of Australia's audiences".
I became a full-time tantra practitioner, and at the same time was studying literature about sexuality within Islam and discovered a wealth of information and detail I hadn't had the slightest notion even existed.
2) Nurse-led telephone follow-up; a mammography at one year combined with an outpatient clinic visit, and telephone interviews by a breast care nurse (BCN) or nurse practitioner (NP) at the same time points as during the usual follow-up (i.e. 3, 6, 9 and 18 months).
His interest in the fundamentalist Salafist branch of Islam emerged, according to a profile in the French magazine L'Express, at the end of the 1990s, when he encountered Pakistani practitioners in Kidal at the same time as he was emerging as an intermediary for Islamist kidnappers, a profitable business from which he took a cut of the ransom.
However, some inconsistency was evident - a majority belief across all four groups suggested the need for CAM practitioners and conventional practitioners to communicate, but at the same time that medical doctors are not comfortable with their patients seeing CAM practitioners.
(General practitioner, area A) At the same time, the incidence of NCDs rises because of an increasing impact of modern risks such as unhealthy diet, smoking, or stress.
Dual job holding amongst public sector medical practitioners, where physicians work at the same time in the private sector, is increasingly being recognised internationally as an activity that is widespread and one which regulators have much difficulty in influencing [ 1- 3].
The challenge to America as a superpower — "hyperpower" is now the favored term in foreign-policy circles — is how to deploy not only our unparalleled military might but also our diplomatic and cultural influence so as to isolate and destroy the practitioners of global terrorism while at the same time drying up the political and social swamps that sustain them.
