hospitalization
Noun
Meaning
placing in medical care in a hospital
insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense
the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital
a period of time when you are confined to a hospital
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As Nietzsche said, ‘that which doesn't kill you– '(Alexion) Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you're a Dark-Hunter, just a good day's sleep. (Danger)
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization
now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization