medical practices
Where doctors work
Medical practices are the methods, procedures, and techniques used in diagnosing and treating illness.
The term covers everything from clinical routines to therapeutic approaches: standard medical practices, evidence-based medical practices.
A medical practice is also a physician's business—the office, staff, and patient base: She sold her medical practice when she retired.
He joined a family medical practice in rural Ohio.
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
- X-rayPenetrating diagnostic beam
- MRIMagnetic body imaging
- CT scanTomographic diagnostic imaging
- vital signsMeasurable life indicators
anesthesiology · informed consent · do no harm · blood tests · surgery · cardiology · biopsy · chemotherapy · acupuncture · pharmacology · physical therapy · genetic testing · clinical trial · psychiatry · primary care · endoscopy · orthopedics · annual checkup
- cultural exchangecultural exchange, cross-cultural, student exchange, intercultural, exchange program
- ethnographyethnic groups, field notes, tribal societies, ethnographies, thick description
medical practicesquackery
Fraudulent medical practice
alternative medicine · faith healing · traditional medicine · homeopathy · shamanism
medical practiceshospitals
Institutions treating the sick
pharmacies · emergency rooms · self-diagnosis · nursing homes · surgical centers
medical practicesself-harm
Deliberately damaging one's body
neglect · medical malpractice · substance abuse · self-medication · medical negligence