71. Some doctors have been treating persistent Lyme disease with much heavier doses of antibiotics than the Klempner study used, and they believe it has helped. 72. Some experts speculate that doctors may treat older patients less aggressively because of concerns about the elderly being more prone to adverse effects of therapies. 73. Some have said he grew angry at the way Brazilian doctors were treating his rickety knees. 74. Still, some doctors are treating infertile women with immunoglobulin, a blood product pooled from thousands of donors and used to regulate abnormal responses of the immune system. 75. Still, doctors treat the babies because waiting even just a few hours might kill them. 76. The doctors there treated them and sent them home. 77. The doctors treated the men. 78. The good news is that because problems such as heart defects can be diagnosed in utero, doctors can treat babies earlier and improve their chances of surviving. 79. The field is also rewarding from a clinical standpoint, she says, because it can enable doctors to treat and reverse health problems rapidly. 80. The standards do not dictate how doctors must treat patients, but both patients and doctors will be aware of what the recommended treatments are. |