How native speakers pronounce “doctors”

my pancreas I didn't even know what a pancreas was the doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer

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a statistic you should ask for that most doctors don't like talking about, and pharmaceutical companies like talking about even less.

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When I watched these people, whether they were teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs -- every day, they were maniacal about constructing their success

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But we didn't learn about it from common cancers. We learned about it when doctors Li and Fraumeni were looking at families,

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He was a boy I had diagnosed with a bone cancer a few days before. He and his mother had been meeting with the chemotherapy doctors earlier that day,

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It turned out that what she had been reading was the protocol that the chemotherapy doctors had given her that day.

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You or someone you love will be that patient sometime very soon. How will you talk to your doctors? What will you tell them?

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is really, really important. Doctors and the scientific community can only address issues when they know there's something to address.

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In addition to these practices, some doctors prescribe medication to aid sleep, but there aren’t reliable medications that help in all cases.

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And in the course of that, I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you

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I was 15 years old. But with the help of many doctors and even more prayers, I survived.

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It is a crime. Women, who five years ago were doctors, politicians, engineers and artists,

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One of my favorite findings is in doctor-patient interactions, uncomfortable doctors, they look down at the chart more,

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feeling unfocused, unmotivated during the day. Maya was doing everything that doctors typically tell us to do to be physically and mentally healthy,

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"Hey Doc, you know, lots of black men trust their barbers more than they trust their doctors." This was stunning to me,

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and how to counsel their customers and refer them to doctors to help manage high blood pressure.

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the barbers measured thousands of blood pressures resulting in hundreds of black men being referred to doctors for medical care of their high blood pressure.

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for the first time, she went to an emergency room in Los Angeles. The emergency room doctors said, "We've run some tests, Veronica.

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we have the trauma surgeon, the ICU nurse, the E.R. doctors. We have those people that are vital rescuers,

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that a lot of colleagues in medicine ask: "Doctors and nurses thinking about transportation and housing? Shouldn't we just provide pills and procedures

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than do all the pills and procedures administered by doctors and hospitals combined. All together, living and working conditions

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In that follow-up visit, she said, "Why did none of my doctors ask about my home before?

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In healthcare, we often pay for volume and not value. We pay doctors and hospitals usually for the number of services they provide,

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we don't know what to tell you. It's not that doctors don't know these are important issues. In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians,

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of the importance of upstream issues, only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues,

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and it's important to note that upstreamists sometimes are doctors, but they need not be. They can be nurses, other clinicians,

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but that there's something that we can all do to get there. Doctors and nurses can get better at asking about the context of patients' lives,

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what do we do? What do we do as patients? We can start by simply going to our doctors and our nurses, to our clinics,

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If we're all able to do this work, doctors and healthcare systems, payers, and all of us together,

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and I was dying for the first time. My doctors came in the room and told me, "David, we've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

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There's nothing more we can do." But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye,

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But in a last-ditch effort to save me, my doctors gave me a combination of seven chemotherapies that weren't meant for my disease.

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and can therefore be treated with the same drug. And amazingly, doctors can prescribe any FDA-approved drug for any disease where they believe the benefit outweighs the risk,

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and had never shared a complete thought or feeling with his parents, and was told by doctors that he probably would never share a feeling with them. Within two weeks of starting leucovorin,

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niece preparing to die doctors had discovered a tumor in his colon pushed by his daughter Matisse agreed to

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or delivered by the equivalent of nurse practitioners and very, very sort of stressed local village doctors. Why do they not have the doctor assistant that helps them in their language,

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used to humiliate or extort them. Fake videos of doctors promoting bogus cures for serious illnesses. A Fortune 500 company losing tens of millions of dollars

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that we didn't really see, that most people, just society in general, but also teachers, nurses, doctors, the systems we were working with didn't have an understanding

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with a horrible, rare cancer called POEMS syndrome, and his doctors had tried everything the doctors knew to try for this rare cancer.

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(Laughter) You know, research tells us that medical doctors’ advice monsters tend to interrupt their patients after about 11 seconds.

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I enrolled myself in something called "sexual surrogacy therapy," in which people I was encouraged to call doctors prescribed what I was encouraged to call exercises

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