Please study the 20 vocabulary terms below. Then press the Mark Complete button to continue.
- albatross
- a chronically ill patient who will remain in hospital until they die
- appy
- an appendicitis, or an appendix
- bounceback
- a patient who is readmitted to hospital after being discharged
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We try to provide comfort to the albatrosses, even though we cannot cure them.
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He presented complaining of an appy.
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If a doctor gets too many bouncebacks, it raises questions over his original diagnosis.
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