Hospitals

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Urgent care centre

Health care; Hospitals

Offers treatment for medical problems that are not life-threatening. These centres function like an emergency room, providing some acute care as well as radiology, laboratory, and other similar ...

Virtual colonoscopy

Health care; Hospitals

Non-invasive screening procedure used to visualize, analyze, and detect cancerous, or potentially cancerous polyps in the colon.

Volunteer services department

Health care; Hospitals

Enlists and coordinates volunteers who serve in a variety of areas including admitting, ambulatory surgery, the gift shop, etc.

Wound care unit

Health care; Hospitals

Unit of the hospital that specialises in the evaluation and treatment of chronic non-healing wounds.

Inability to digest lactose, a component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose is sometimes also used as an ingredient in other foods, so those with a lactase deficiency should cheque labels ...

Laparoscopy

Health care; Hospitals

A type of surgery in which a small incision (cut) is made in the abdominal wall through which an instrument (a laparoscope) is placed to permit structures within the abdomen and pelvis to be seen. ...