Vegetative patient 'communicates'
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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Docs often convey critical medical information in jargon that most people don't understand. Let us know if you've encountered this situation. Should we employ medical translators? In Bodyhack.
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Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings from a small study suggest.
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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o matter what the illness, people in hospital intensive care units tend to have elevated blood sugar levels. One way to help these ICU patients survive is to give them insulin to bring their
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A curious thing happened to one of my psychiatric residents not long ago. One of his patients caught him off guard with a challenging question: âHave you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?â
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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I HAD A PATIENT who was a Navy fighter pilot. During his annual flight physical, he asked me if he should quit smoking. Although the answer seemed to be a no-brainer, I asked him what smoking did for him.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- With more ill and injured people unable to speak English, hospitals, clinics and rescue squads are turning to picture boards to bridge the communication gap with easily understood images.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, is no longer terminally ill thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father says.
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Often, a patient's âhave you ever ...â question is less a therapeutic riddle to be solved than an expression of genuine skepticism that they can indeed be helped.
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Doctors may have to take a more active  role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with  terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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U.S. News & World Report - Just check in with the patient and let me know how she did overnight, my resident instructed me. A straightforward task, I thought, but still, nothing comes easy the first days on the hospital wards as a third-year student. I peered into the room and saw my patient cradled in her mother's arms. An 11-month-old who recently arrived from Guam, she had a raging ear infection. Her mother looked weary from the long nights. What could I offer? More immediately, where to begin?
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Â· Girl, 2, in critical condition with head injuriesÂ· Executive examined by psychologists
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It is OK to discuss death with a dying child and in fact desirable, Swedish researchers reported on Wednesday. Parents who talked about death when their children were dying of cancer almost