A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They typically cover the primary care needs of populations in local communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer more specialized treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays.
Most commonly, the English word clinic refers to a general practice, run by one or more general practitioners offering small therapeutic treatments, but it can also mean a specialist clinic. Some clinics retain the name “clinic” even while growing into institutions as large as major hospitals or becoming associated with a hospital or medical school.
I’ll buy that definition a little, but there are “clinics” that are spread across multiple locations. And worse, the most famous “clinic”, The Mayo Clinic, is hospital sized, and across multiple locations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic
A clinic is a place, not a group of people.
I’ll buy that definition a little, but there are “clinics” that are spread across multiple locations. And worse, the most famous “clinic”, The Mayo Clinic, is hospital sized, and across multiple locations.
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