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  2. Wellpath - Wikipedia

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    Revenue. $1.17 billion (2017) Website. wellpathcare.com. Wellpath, formerly known as Correct Care Solutions [1] is a healthcare company based in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. [2] and "one of the nation’s largest for-profit healthcare providers for prisoners." [3] The company was founded in 2003 [2] by Jerry Boyle. [4]

  3. Different Types of Doctors & Medical Specialists Explained

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    Otolaryngologists. They treat diseases in the ears, nose, throat, sinuses, head, neck, and respiratory system. They also can do reconstructive and plastic surgery on your head and neck ...

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  5. Health care - Wikipedia

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    Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

  6. Critical, Stable, or Fair: Defining Patient Conditions - WebMD

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    In the media, hospital terms that describe a patient’s condition -- like critical, fair, serious, stable -- are vague by design. They give you just a general sense of how someone is doing, which ...

  7. What Is a Physician? What Do They Do and When to See One - WebMD

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    Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases. Physicians generally have six core skills: Patient care. Physicians have to ...

  8. Health professional - Wikipedia

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    Health professional. A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) [1] is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (such as family physician, internist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, radiologist ...

  9. Administration of Medication: Taking Drugs the Right Way

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    applied to the skin. transdermal. given through a patch placed on the skin. The route used to give a drug depends on three main factors: the part of the body being treated. the way the drug works ...