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Journey During Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Physician�s Experience
Vijay K. Sharma , and colleagues
Background A practicing radiologist in Singapore relates his experience as a patient undergoing treatment for acute ischemic stroke and reflects on how that experience changed him and his attitude toward his practice and his patients. He concludes that while effective treatment requires great aptitude and appropriate use of high-tech diagnostic treatment tools, it also requires talking with patients and families, sharing and showing emotions, and offering words of encouragement.
