Example sentences of "some patients " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , some patients may experience pain at the site of the rash for six months or even longer . |
| 2 | • Some patients should have bright light when it would be predicted to worsen their symptoms by adjusting the body clock in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | Some patients got others to write for them when they were low , but there was nothing Lily wanted to say to Vincent that she could ask anyone to write . |
| 4 | Carbenoxolone was the market leader for about 10 years but its structural similarities to the steroid hormone aldosterone was probably responsible for side-effects such as weight gain , oedema ( accumulation of fluid in tissues ) , hypokalaemia ( potassium loss ) and hypertension found in some patients . |
| 5 | In practise , however , some patients may need the qualities of the centesimal remedies to awaken their self healing process . |
| 6 | The opportunity was taken to devise comparative trials , in which some patients were treated with streptomycin and others served as controls . |
| 7 | Other surgeons and radiotherapists obtained benefit for some patients when they were sterilized by irradiation . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century the name ‘ essential hypertension ’ was invented , meaning that in some patients a rise in blood pressure is a protective mechanism , essential in order to overcome narrowing of the arteries and force blood through them to reach vital organs . |
| 9 | Twenty years later at least four major families of drugs were widely used , as well as a considerable number of supporting agents which were believed to help some patients in particular circumstances . |
| 10 | However , Marsilid also had more unwanted effects than its companion drug , and some patients experienced psychotic episodes . |
| 11 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 12 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 13 | Some patients landed with this label will have viral cystitis , difficult to diagnose by the standard methods of analysing the urine , others will have one of the genital infections like trichomoniasis , candida , or herpes while some actually have a bacterial infection of the bladder or kidney that has been missed . |
| 14 | Although some patients do attend with a letter from their GP , many prefer to come directly to the clinic , as this saves time and possible embarrassment if they would rather that their family doctor did n't know about the particular problem . |
| 15 | Some patients are , in spite of reassurance , unwilling to give their real names and in these cases a fictitious name is quite in order , with the one proviso that an attempt should be made to remember the false name in case a further visit should be needed . |
| 16 | Some patients relearn dressing very quickly , others extremely slowly . |
| 17 | Some patients , especially after a head injury , may become disorientated while they are out , so that they can not find their way home . |
| 18 | Some patients with severe behaviour problems , especially as the result of head injury , may have to be admitted to special treatment units for behaviour modification therapy . |
| 19 | Some patients begin to recover their ability to balance and to use their limbs fully within two to three weeks , whereas others may take months or years to reach their full potential , especially if they have perceptual problems and severe spasticity . |
| 20 | In some patients there is a flexor reaction which makes the patient draw his foot away from the floor on contact . |
| 21 | The specialists again argue that with the right regime of treatment , there is no need for this to happen ; but in reality the right regime is not always available , and even if it were , some patients may wish to retain their independence to choose suicide . |
| 22 | There are some patients who are permanently maintained on ventilators because of illness . |
| 23 | For some patients observation with little change in regime may be all that is necessary . |
| 24 | Theoretically short-acting insulin in the evening would cover the evening meal and bedtime snack , but some patients readily become hypoglycaemic with short-acting insulin at this time . |
| 25 | Some patients may try to starve themselves in order to avoid oral agents or insulin , and this needs to be identified immediately . |
| 26 | Some patients may need drug therapy at diagnosis if they are thin and have lost much weight with severe hyperglycaemia , are very symptomatic or perhaps with evidence of infection . |
| 27 | Some patients do not complain of the side-effects or relate them to therapy , so it is worth questioning patients carefully to see that all is well . |
| 28 | Frequently patients respond to a small dose and indeed some patients may be very sensitive to this drug and care needs to be taken that hypoglycaemia does not occur . |
| 29 | Some patients regard diabetic clinic days as holy days and fast for them ! |
| 30 | Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) . |