Posts Tagged ‘Patient’

Eating right can help you fight cancer

Monday, June 28th, 2010
Salad

A cancer by itself drains the body of its energy. To add to the patient’s misery, even the treatment options are equally painful, whether surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy. Therefore, the diet must be tailored to suit the needs of the patient at that point of time. Thus, we can logically plan the diet [...]

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Do standardized treatment protocols do more harm than good?

Friday, June 25th, 2010
Protocol

Standardization of processes has a large number of advantages such as ensuring quality, improving performance, and reducing wastage, especially when it comes to sectors that are not directly concerned with health matters. However, when you are dealing with patients, it is a totally different ball game. While you can standardize certain activities, doing so [...]

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Doctors can make mistakes too!

Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Doctor

 Doctors are human beings and no one is perfect. Hence, doctors can also make mistakes. However, considering that it is human life that they are dealing with, they cannot afford to make mistakes. With the medical profession coming under the Consumer Protection Act, doctors are already getting on the defensive and avoiding any situation that [...]

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Healer, heal thyself!

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Healer

 Doctors are that part of the community that is meant to help the public – physically and mentally. So it should be; so it is not. Well, not always.
On one hand, doctors are known to work long exhausting hours in an operation theatre struggling to save the life of an accident victim or remove the [...]

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