Medical practitioners owe a duty of care, arising from contract and/or tort laws, to their patients.
Under the common law system a medical practitioner owes two different duties to patients: contractual and tortious.
The whirling dervishes made famous by Sufi practitioners also owe their heritage to the landlocked region -- the famous 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, composer of so many of the verses dervishes spin to even today, was born in Balkh, now a part of modern-day Afghanistan.
The coveted title of a genuine "microfinance institution" from a "practitioner" may owe less to what the institution does than to its public-relations skills.
In addition, after early to mid May 2009 patients with suspected influenza A/H1N1 2009 infection included within the general practice virological surveillance schemes would generally have had an extra reason to attend their general practitioner, such as "serious illness," owing to the recommendation that people with "uncomplicated" influenza symptoms should not visit their GP 11).
Such delays might be patient-related (because the patients ignored their symptoms, did not wish to seek care or did not recognise the seriousness of their symptoms) or might be practitioner related (owing to acid suppression treatment, previous negative tests or initial mis-diagnosis).
As system-specific data on the genetics of phenology and on species interaction rates at the community level become available, more detailed mechanistic models may help researchers and practitioners to more precisely identify mutualisms at risk owing to climate change.
Annual risk factor and clinical outcome data were collected for 5 years in UKPDS clinics, and in years 6 to 10, owing to funding restrictions, patient and general practitioner questionnaires were used to collect clinical outcome data (7).
In 2009, he and his wife were detained for a month by police from Harbin's public-security bureau, owing to his work on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners in Inner Mongolia.
It's writing with a voice and a history and a context and a face— that has revived analysis and even (improbably) the essay in the digital medium, and many of the finest practitioners of this art owe an unacknowledged debt to the deliberately self-unschooled "hacks" who first started throwing brickbats from outside what used to meaningfully be called the mainstream media.
