medical care
Professional health services
Medical care is the treatment and management of illness, injury, or other health conditions by trained professionals.
It encompasses everything from routine checkups to emergency intervention to long-term disease management.
She couldn't afford medical care without insurance.
The term often appears in policy discussions about access and cost: universal medical care, medical care expenses.
- first aidInitial injury treatment
- ambulance servicesEmergency medical transportation system
- nurseHealthcare provider, bedside
- bedside mannerPhysician's interpersonal approach
- biopsiesSurgical diagnostic samplings
blood tests · doctor · second opinion · vaccination · counseling sessions · chemotherapy · psychotherapy · immunization programs · physical examinations · occupational therapy · diagnosis · medications · genetic testing · bedside · dialysis · radiation therapy · immunotherapy · mental health counseling
- disaster responsedisaster relief, search and rescue, first responders, emergency preparedness, emergency shelter
- life skillsreading, writing, cooking, cleaning, laundry
- living conditionshousing, income, employment, education access, clean water
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- animal sheltersanimal shelters, no-kill shelters, shelter dogs, shelter staff, shelter volunteers
- nursingnurse, nursing, nurses, RN, LPN
medical carehome remedies
Informal household cures
folk medicine · quackery · snake oil · self-treatment · alternative medicine
medical caremedical neglect
Failure to provide healthcare
malpractice · abuse · harm · injury · poisoning
medical careneglect
Failure to provide care
medical neglect · abandonment · untreated illness · letting nature take its course · benign neglect
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