Dr. wartman 's doctors realized then that their last best hope for saving him was to use all the genetic know-how and technology at their disposal .
沃特曼博士的医生意识到,他最后的希望是他们手头的一切基因知识和技术。
Speaking to doctors and nurses in a classroom at the hospital , dr. jeffrey p. wilkinson , an expert on fistula repair from duke university , noted that women with fistulas frequently became outcasts because of the odor .
A recent column by dr. pauline chen at the new york times explores a surprising oversight in modern healthcare : doctors don 't really have a clue how to predict how long a patient will live .
But it 's something that dr. leonard saltz , a colon cancer expert at memorial sloan kettering cancer center , believes is necessary to make this test truly useful for doctors and patients .
但是莱奥纳多萨尔茨博士认为,要想使该检测方法对医生和患者真正有用的话,该功能是必不可少的。
" This is certainly something patients would want to discuss with their doctors , " said dr. andrew chan of harvard medical school in boston , who led the study , which appears in wednesday 's journal of the american medical association .
If dr. tononi is right , he and his colleagues may be able to build a " consciousness meter " that doctors can use to measure consciousness as easily as they measure blood pressure and body temperature .
In the first year of a program called bronx knows , begun in mid-2008 , 70 percent of residents with a confirmed positive h.i.v. test were sent to doctors and clinics for care , dr. sweeney said .
Even when doctors do offer the test to patients , " a significant number refuse , " said dr. anthony s. fauci , director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases , which is to pay for the test and treat feasibility study .
Some u.s. doctors , such as dr. robert j. neviaser , professor and chairman of orthopaedic surgery at george washington university in washington , d.c. , are skeptical that this extra step will do much , if any , good .
If improved , the test might lead fewer doctors to order angiograms as " defensive medicine , " said dr. daniel rader , director of preventive cardiology at the university of pennsylvania and a spokesman for the american college of cardiology .