medical failure

A patient who does not respond to a non-interventional therapeutic modality used for a non-malignant but potentially pernicious condition and who, due to this failure, may benefit from surgery

medical 'failure'

A Pt who does not respond to a non-interventional modality used for a non-malignant but potentially pernicious condition, and who, due to this failure, may benefit from surgery
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Many psychiatrists don't understand the hormonal fluctuations in women, and treat them as if they are men - it's a scandalous medical failure.
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It's a scandalous medical failure, the treatment of depression in premenopausal women.
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It includes several chapters originally published in 1998-2004, two chapters from his book All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counselling in a Pediatric Hospital (1992), one chapter from Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure (1979), and an added appendix from the second edition (2003).
Charles L. Bosk, What Would you Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Exploring what we mean by "giving up" leads to dealing with emotional attachment to the patient and family, or the concept of medical failure and learning how to deal with end-of-life care.
Futility: interpretation and usefulness in clinical practice
Here are case examples for two of the more common types of medical negligence in trauma care: surgical failure and medical failure.
Making the trauma negligence case: emergency care facilities are chronically understaffed, overworked, and lacking in medical teams with experience in treating victims of trauma. Patients who urgently need competent medical care may suffer disastrous consequences
Death is not necessarily a medical failure; conversely, causing or allowing a bad death is not only a medical failure, but also an ethical breakdown.
Physicians should not always pursue a Good 'clinical' outcome
While the author points out repeatedly that nursing home residents are poorly served when death is viewed as a medical failure instead of the final season of life, his own failure to offer concrete proposals to improve nursing home care may disappoint some readers.
Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
Davis reported a 65% success rate and a medical failure / surgery rate of 35%.
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After years of medical failure, she was resigned to living as a virtual recluse, unable to wander far from home.
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Many focus on making physicians more comfortable with the dying patient and dispelling death as a medical failure.
Ambitious PBS series looks at improving the way we die

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