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A medical certificate or doctor's certificate [1] [2] is a written statement from a physician or another medically qualified health care provider which attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient. [3] It can serve as a sick note (UK: fit note) (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition. [4]
Amazon Clinic was an Amazon subsidiary that provided virtual healthcare services, until being merged with the company's in-person healthcare subsidiary One Medical. [ 1 ] History
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
NHS hospitals in England are continuing to see near-record numbers of medically-fit patients unable to be discharged, though ambulance handover delays outside A&Es have improved, figures show.
Hospitals are facing a growing struggle to discharge people who are well enough to leave.
A diagnosis is the assessment that a particular medical condition is present while an indication is a reason for use. [3] The opposite of an indication is a contraindication, [4] a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment because the risks of treatment clearly outweigh the benefits.
The National Physical Fitness Award (NAPFA) is a standard physical fitness test for Singaporeans as part of Singapore's Sports For Life programme. NAPFA was launched in January 1982 as a standardised assessment of overall fitness for the general population.