medical practice

Where physicians work

Medical practice refers to the professional work of diagnosing and treating patients, or the business entity where such work occurs.

A doctor's practice is both what they do and where they do it: She has a family medical practice in rural Ohio.

The phrase also describes methods within medicine: standard medical practice, evidence-based medical practice.

To practice medicine is to work as a licensed physician.

Opposites
healthcare setting type

medical practicehospital ward

Treatment division in clinic

hospital · emergency room · intensive care unit · inpatient facility · trauma center

treatment approach

medical practicequackery

Fraudulent medical practice

charlatanism · folk medicine · alternative medicine · faith healing · pseudoscience

professional activity type

medical practicelegal practice

Attorney's professional work

law practice · engineering firm · dental practice · veterinary practice · business practice

Family

practice, medicine, medical, medication, medicate, medicated, practitioner, medics, nonmedical

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G