Younger, more inexperienced doctors may have a harder time resisting patients' demands than older colleagues, but even very experienced oncologists admitted that this was difficult for them.
The number of antibiotics being prescribed by GPs is falling thanks to calls to review their practices and resist patients' demands for them, and also as a result of financial incentives that NHS England introduced last year, which has cut the number handed out by 5.3%.
One GP thought better access to private radiology services made it more appropriate to resist patients' demands for radiography (They can go themselves and get an X-ray, if they really want to).
Clinicians should resist sidelining patient experience measures as too subjective or mood-orientated, divorced from the 'real' clinical work of measuring and delivering patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Clinicians should resist sidelining patient experience as too subjective or mood-oriented, divorced from the 'real' clinical work of measuring safety and effectiveness.
This model examined time to first DAIDS Grade 3/4 ALT and/or AST elevations in RESIST patients, using 96+ week data.
3. no motivation for treatment (actively or passively resisting treatment; the patient is very difficult to involve in any form of treatment, including treatment by the general practitioner).
He now resists helping patients to manage their lives better.
Earlier this month, the CQC confirmed it had received claims that the hospital had resisted sending patients for treatment at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital – a unit that would remain open under the original NHS restructuring plans.
Still, she resisted in-patient treatment out of fear that "if I check myself into the hospital, no one is ever going to read me again because I'm that crazy person who checked herself into the hospital," she told me.
