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Quality and Outcomes Framework (system for payment of GPs in the UK National Health Service) q.o.h. every other hour q.s. as much as suffices (from Latin quantum satis or quantum sufficit) qt: quart: q.v. which see (from Latin quod vide); as much as you please (from Latin quantum vis) q.wk. also qw: weekly (once a week)
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.
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test)
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Here’s an important distinction to make, per Dr. Goldman: Perimenopause is a stage, while menopause is a single moment that you reach exactly 12 consecutive months after your last menstrual period.
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
Women are twice as likely to have an eating disorder in their 40s as to have breast cancer, but midlife eating disorders are under-researched and overlooked. This Menopause Side Effect Was Overlooked.
Kelly Ripa shared the up-sides of menopause on her podcast ‘Let’s Talk Off Camera’ with Dr. Erika Schwartz. She also discussed the stigmas that remain.