pain clinic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpainandclinic
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pain
noun[C or U]
uk/peɪn/us/peɪn/
a feeling of physical suffering caused by injury ...
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clinic
noun[C]
uk/ˈklɪn.ɪk/us/ˈklɪn.ɪk/
a building, often part of a hospital, to which people can go for medical care or advice relating to a ...
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(Definition ofpainandclinicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The actual practice of hypnosis as utilized in thispainclinicis described below.
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If that did not happen, the treatment that he gives in hispainclinicwould be stopped in its tracks.
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Delays fuel frustration and despair, with the patient often waiting months or even years for a referral to apainclinicwhen other disciplines have discharged them.
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Since that time the hospital has seen its services grow to include orthopaedics, ophthalmology, apainclinicand sleep center.
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The meetings also included visits to two different pain clinics.
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The patients in this sample did not include individuals from private therapists or pain clinics.
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They also included visits to two different pain clinics.
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Nowadays it is commonplace for pain clinics to use acupuncture whereas 20 years ago it was regarded as strange and quirky.
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Rapid access chest pain clinics are a service provided by acute hospital trusts.
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In addition, new chest pain clinics will do the same for patients with suspected heart problems.
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Rapid access chest pain clinics will be established and waiting times for heart operations will be reduced.
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That is what the rapid-access chest pain clinics are doing.
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In the national service framework we have set out plans for rapid-access chest pain clinics throughout the country.
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That money will be used to pay for 3,000 more heart operations, cut ambulance waiting times and set up fast-track chest pain clinics.
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I appreciate that in the raw terms of population the decision on chest pain clinics makes sense.
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Roll out of rapid access chest pain clinics started in 2000 and national coverage was achieved in 2003.
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Some health authorities do provide pain clinics.
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Many pain clinics are legal, but others have been questioned as pill mills.
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The crisis is blamed on the proliferation of cash-only pain clinics, known as pill mills by locals.
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