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Patients’ Assessment Of Their Health Is Gaining Importance In Treatment

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As medicine moves to a patient-centered model, doctors and other health providers are slowly adding patients’ self-reports to the other tests and exams they use to determine care.

In Caring For Sickest Infants, Doctors Tap Parents For Tough Calls

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Doctors were once unquestioned authorities on how aggressively to treat the sickest and most premature babies. Now, they increasingly include parents in these wrenching choices.