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Mathematically, averaging all the patients together, irrespective of how long they have been observed taking Tysabri, underestimates the risk to a long-term patient.
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In Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Phillips is constantly moved around the building as staff try to accommodate such a long-term patient.
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There was no real acknowledgment that as a doctor, Kent should not be involved with the mother of a long-term patient.
avidbookreader 2010
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Limitations -- if you need to reach more places that just one, you need to move robot and open new holes in patient.
Boing Boing 2009
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That is a smart strategy — even if it requires long-suffering investors to remain patient.
BP's Enduring Taste for Exploration Matthew Curtin 2010
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If it's a negative result, the doctor him/herself doesn't have to do it, but they should have one of their receptionists call the patient.
ER Follow-Up 1 Dinosaur 2007
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One word I dare to apply to them all, though I know well how different they are in the north and south and east and west, as diversified indeed as any nation in the world, and that is the word patient.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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Those who have contended for a radical distinction between agent and patient, have generally conceived the agent as that which causes some state of, or some change in the state of, another object which is called the patient.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Those who have contended for a radical distinction between agent and patient, have generally conceived the agent as that which causes some state of, or some change in the state of, another object which is called the patient.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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The doctor reads the message in between seeing other patients, sends a message to the medical assistant, who calls the patient.
unknown title 2009
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