Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] patients ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 2 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 3 | Others , especially those with an interest in the psychodynamics of the doctor-patient relationship , have argued that such situations present diagnostic opportunities fully exploitable only by doctors aware of their patients ' relationships with those about them , and their previous behaviour and reactions . |
| 4 | She must know as much of his patients ' secrets as he did himself . |
| 5 | Freud , however , did not hold this view and hoped to find the true root of his patients ' hysteria . |
| 6 | Psychiatrists today may find scatological or sexual meanings in their patients ' doodles , but this is a new approach for art historians and is quite unverifiable after 650 years . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped therefore that those considering these matters will be able to reassure doctors about the propriety and legality of withholding or withdrawing non-beneficial or unwanted treatment , so that they can continue to act in their patients ' best interests without the need for the kind of bureaucracy feared by The Lancet . |
| 8 | Now that we had decided to refer to the team leader ( who would be the care manager ) we devised a simple referral form and agreed that all communications with and from social services would be made in writing and filed in our patients ' notes . |
| 9 | However , they have also found themselves caught between what district health authority purchasers with a population based public health focus want and what general practitioners want based on their patients ' needs . |