After several months, the patient may reach the $3,000 limit on his pharmacy benefit.
That patient reached a plateau after 15 months, he said, and has not deteriorated since.
Electrical stimulation is an effective treatment to help patients reach this fundamental goal.
He would stop titrating when a patient reached 5 out of 10.
About 40% of emergency patients reach the hospital via ambulance.
Even the plant beds are raised so wheelchair-bound patients can reach them.
When a destructive thought comes along, patients can reach for their card and repeat the coping statement to themselves.
The soil level is raised, so the patient can reach it without having to bend too far.
For instance, to teach someone to get groceries off a shelf, they would have the patient reach up and out, into thin air.
Another problem can arise when patients reach what is called the "doughnut hole" created by Congress.