noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hospital appointment British English
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My hospital appointment lasted half an hour.
a hospital clinic
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You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic.
a hospital doctor British English (= working in a hospital )
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Junior hospital doctors have to work very long hours.
a hospital patient
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All hospital patients have to follow a daily routine.
a hospital stay ( also a stay in hospital British English a stay in the hospital American English )
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Sally is back at work after a short stay in hospital.
a medical/hospital drama (= about events in a hospital )
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He played a doctor in the US medical drama 'ER'.
a patient is admitted (to hospital)
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This examination should be done when the patient is admitted to hospital.
a patient is discharged (from hospital) (= allowed to leave it )
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The patient was discharged after eight days.
an office/museum/hospital etc complex
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a 120-acre office complex near Las Vegas
an office/school/hospital etc building
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Our office building is just ten minutes’ walk from where I live.
company/hospital/university etc policy
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It is not company policy to offer refunds.
cottage hospital
factory/hospital/school etc closure
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the problem of school closures
field hospital
General Hospital
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Watford General Hospital
hospital admissions
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There are 13,000 hospital admissions annually due to playground accidents.
hospital care
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£50.6m is to be spent on hospital care.
hospital treatment
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Several people needed hospital treatment for burns.
hospital/library/office etc staff
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He had responsibility for training library staff.
isolation hospital/ward British English
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Scarlet fever victims had to go to the isolation hospital.
long-stay hospital/ward/bed etc
medical/hospital/health etc records
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The hospital could not find my mother’s medical records.
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Patients’ hospital records are kept on a database.
mental hospital
rushed to hospital
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Dan was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries.
teaching hospital
the hotel/hospital/museum etc entrance
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Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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Not every clinical condition will be managed efficiently in the district general hospitals which are supposed to take over from us.
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The general hospitals were overcrowded and could do little for them in their advanced stages of illness.
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I am advised that there were no serious repercussions for any patient at Sunderland general hospital last year.
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Fear about the spread of infection accounted for the physical separation of the obstetrical and pediatric divisions in large general hospitals .
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He's being treated for a punctured lung at the town's general hospital .
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For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.
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In others, the general hospital psychiatric service will be able to provide aftercare, including where necessary, family therapy.
large
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In order to stimulate competition, large hospitals were encouraged to become self-governing.
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This old mansion became a large hospital .
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It operates from a large teaching hospital which until recently had no community links.
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Recently a patient was being evaluated in a large New York hospital .
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A similar number of referrals came, however, from nearby large district general hospitals .
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Fear about the spread of infection accounted for the physical separation of the obstetrical and pediatric divisions in large general hospitals .
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Then they walked up to the front door of the large hospital .
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So, reluctantly, the larger voluntary hospitals followed.
local
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If the relatives could not pick the patient up, he would be lodged in the casualty department of the local hospital .
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The woman, whose name is not being released, is recovering from a fractured skull at a local hospital .
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The local district general hospital is the only possibility.
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He was taken to a local hospital , where doctors recommended that he see orthopedic surgeons here.
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Voice over Patients are delighted their local hospital has been saved from the axe.
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She checks herself into the psychiatric ward of our local hospital .
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At least 31 party-goers were treated at local hospitals for symptoms including nausea and accelerated heart rates.
mental
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Families hid their ill relatives in a cell at home or in a mental hospital .
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Four days after paramedics recommended Brown be hospitalized, he was transferred to the state mental hospital .
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My Mom took a job as a nursing orderly in a mental hospital where sleeping pills and tranquillisers were easily obtainable.
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The opening of the hospital has also reinvigorated a wider debate on the need for mental hospitals for the young.
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The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000.
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It runs Chestnut Lodge, a mental hospital in Rockville, and several outpatient clinics.
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He found out about her stays in mental hospitals and some of the problems in her early life.
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The government officials responsible for the mental hospital say they too want to move children back into the community.
private
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Gilfoyle, 31-year-old auxiliary nurse at a private hospital , has pleaded not guilty to murdering his eight-month pregnant wife, Paula.
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If she undergoes surgery, it will take place in a private hospital and will be paid for by Zapatista supporters.
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And for one private hospital , the contract could be worth up to 180,000 pounds.
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He was the comptroller of a medium-size private hospital .
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He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill.
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Certainly, there is no requirement in private hospitals to revalue their fixed assets every three years.
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It had no idea if the private hospitals were in turn charging their patients.
psychiatric
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Hospital records were sought for such patients who had died in care outside psychiatric hospitals .
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The campus is an inpatient psychiatric hospital specializing in adult care.
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A recent survey by the National Schizophrenia Fellowship has shown that 45 psychiatric hospitals will close by the year 2000.
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In psychiatric hospitals , the countywide average stay has plummeted from 22 days five years ago to 13 days now.
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Recently, six Humberside teenagers ended up in a psychiatric hospital with a form of schizophrenia after taking the drug.
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In a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents?
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Our experience indicates that the majority of in-patients in psychiatric hospitals are not particularly suitable, even if their major problem is anxiety.
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He remained in the psychiatric hospital for three weeks.
public
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Nursing in public hospitals was also pensionable, while the more prestigious voluntary hospitals were early pension providers.
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Can you imagine requiring that all Medicaid and Medicare recipients go to public hospitals ?
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The average costs of treating patients at private hospitals are less than those in public hospitals.
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Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.
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The hospital will be a public voluntary teaching hospital and will include a nursing school.
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The occasional incidents of newborn babies being stolen from public hospitals understandably causes a furore.
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For-profit hospitals turn away patients who have no insurance, sending them to overcrowded public hospitals.
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From almost the first day, she and her husband had begun the round of public hospitals and clinics.
■ NOUN
admission
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X-rays, blood tests, dates of emergency hospital admissions , visits to the general practitioner, medication.
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The two groups were compared at hospital admission and at one year after their procedure.
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Disease was measured by first hospital admission rates since endometriosis can be diagnosed with accuracy only at laparotomy or laparoscopy.
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Counselling and psychotherapy Psychotherapy commences during hospital admission and continues long after discharge.
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No room: Bed shortage halts some hospital admissions .
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The boy behind pulled Roy's chair away leading to another hospital admission .
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However, hospital admissions for asthma attacks, mostly among children, doubled during the 1980s.
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She had a history of hospital admissions for similar symptoms in 1976, 1983, and 1989 which resolved spontaneously.
bed
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Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.
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The family and I gathered around his hospital bed .
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I was surprised how weak and light-headed I felt on nipping out of my hospital bed to recover a dropped book.
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Penny lay in another hospital bed suffering the acute, painful stages of the disease.
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It is Gunn's memories of his friends lying dying in hospital beds which inspires this verse.
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For their trouble, they are given only meals and a hospital bed during their stays.
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The gateway to the hospital bed is largely controlled by doctors and therefore their absence or presence is fundamental to this issue.
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Jailing the mentally ill when there is no hospital bed available may seem archaic, but it is not rare.
care
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Products offered by service industries include hospital care , dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.
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She still needed hospital care but certainly seemed to be getting better.
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A constant theme in research concerned with the hospital care of older people is the discharge from hospital back to the community.
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This suggests that those entering long-stay hospital care present different sorts of needs from those entering public/private nursing home or residential care.
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The by-election came only two weeks after the ending of universal free hospital care .
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Children's hospital care condemned A report has shown intensive care facilities for critically-ill children are seriously lacking.
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This exercise suggested that there were few class differences in community nurse use or acute hospital care .
field
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Let's hope he is able to get in some training at his field hospital so that he at least stays in touch with his fitness.
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Or imagine field hospitals suddenly deluged not with crates of morphine but with horses!
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She says they've set up a field hospital with the latest equipment.
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All was quiet save in the field hospitals in the rear.
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Mark, 26, is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War.
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But an emergency medical team from Dagestan gave this reporter a lift to the field hospital located just outside the town.
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They bumped past a hut for collecting the dead, then the field hospital that lay ahead of it.
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Each field hospital has four operating theatres and around 200 beds.
staff
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The hospital staff wouldn't thank him for provoking another.
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Instead these injuries resulted from complications that occurred even though doctors and hospital staff had provided quality care.
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They appeal for her to contact the hospital staff on a special telephone number so that they can offer her help and support.
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Patients were divided from the administration, and divisiveness developed within the ranks of the hospital staff itself.
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I always suspect that the proverbial gratitude which patients express to hospital staff is really gratitude for having got out alive!
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Some of the hospital staff distributed biscuits and rice, but the charnel-house smell was so strong that few were hungry.
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The cash was raised by hospital staff .
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It was his mental state which put the wind up the hospital staff .
stay
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It is usually as effective as surgery in treating bile duct stones and involves a shorter hospital stay .
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During that long hospital stay , it became painfully clear that I had two choices.
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The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.
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There were no walking wounded, no agonized hospital stays , no maimed pilots to mar the scene.
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Although 83 he was still sprightly and his death from pneumonia following a short hospital stay came as a shock.
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As children no longer needed long hospital stays , the hospital opened its door to adults.
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All prescribed medications, hospital stays , and transportation were offered free of charge.
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The Doles met, she explained, at the end of his hospital stay for severe war injuries.
teaching
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It is the first medical technique of its kind to be practised by a major Belfast teaching hospital .
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Edinburgh is well provided with clinical teaching hospitals .
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It operates from a large teaching hospital which until recently had no community links.
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In Dublin, for example, two teaching hospitals were closed in 1987.
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What these men gained in return was the prestige and professional recognition that came from practising at one of the teaching hospitals .
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Setting - Clinical investigation unit of teaching hospital recruiting from diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.
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For months, the spin doctors relied on the training imparted at such teaching hospitals as the Downing Street Policy Unit.
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Setting - Clinical investigation unit of teaching hospital recruiting from diabetes clinics of five teaching hospitals and one district general hospital.
treatment
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Thomas Cunningham suffered a cut to the scalp which required hospital treatment .
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Stanton, 69, suffered minor injuries to his face and head but did not require hospital treatment .
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More than 20 officers needed hospital treatment .
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One victim was stabbed; others required hospital treatment as a result of the attacks.
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It was time for the Essex Ambulance Service to be called into action as a player from each side needed hospital treatment .
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That night, scores of people were beaten badly enough to require hospital treatment , including twenty newsmen.
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The protester needed hospital treatment and months of physiotherapy after being run down.
■ VERB
admit
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She was admitted to hospital on 21 January because of a productive cough and mild dyspnoea which had appeared four days earlier.
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But Owens was absent because her father was admitted to the hospital .
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He was admitted to hospital earlier this week after showing no signs of recovery.
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Casei. i An elderly patient who has been vomiting is admitted to the hospital because of dehydration.
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She was admitted to hospital and the baby was induced because the doctors feared both Esther and the baby were in danger.
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As a precaution they had both been admitted to hospital , but Sean Walsh had driven up and got Benny discharged.
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A 72 year old man with ischaemic heart disease and poor ventricular function was admitted to hospital after collapsing at home.
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It is also possible for patients to be admitted directly to general hospitals and never to psychiatric hospital.
die
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If the person dies in hospital the family will need to collect the body from the mortuary.
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I watched my son die in the hospital .
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He collapsed in a police cell and died later in hospital .
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They performed prayer services when her father was dying in a Washington hospital .
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Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.
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Read in studio A man has died in hospital , after being released from Police custody.
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The Pollard had suffered serious head injuries and later died in Frenchay hospital in Bristol.
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Retired postman Mr Wilkins, 73, was already dead and his 83-year-old wife died in hospital two weeks later.
discharge
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Twenty four hours earlier, Liverpool manager Graeme Souness had been discharged from hospital after a heart bypass.
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Two teenagers were discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday.
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This approach includes ensuring that patients are not discharged from hospital until adequate community care is available.
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The other four, including the boy arrested, had earlier checked out or been discharged from local hospitals .
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One of the four police officers injured in the explosion has been discharged from hospital .
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No one should be discharged from this hospital against his will.
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The first is that when people are discharged from hospital early they should be seen soon in out-patients.
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She was discharged from hospital within a week and by that time, could carry out the majority of her normal activities.
leave
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As they left the hospital , Evelyn grabbed her hand to cross the road to get to the car park.
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Clutching his new bear, he left the hospital for the Garth House, a Beaumont facility for battered and abused children.
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He left the hospital and began to walk slowly along the boulevard leading back to the centre of Perugia.
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It was the first time I had seen her since she left for the hospital that morning.
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They left the hospital in the morning, and they didn't reach the village until the following evening.
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People began leaving hospitals in waves, and fewer came to replace them.
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She reported that since she had left hospital her parents had been more sympathetic towards her.
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They had left the hospital grounds now, and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car.
release
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Schäuble was released from hospital on Oct. 31 after two operations to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
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Maya has been released from the hospital but her medical condition is unclear.
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He's just been released from hospital .
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She was to stay overnight in the hospital and was expected to be released Thursday morning, hospital spokesman Brice Peyre said.
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But key central defender Alan McDonald is out after being released from hospital with bruised kidneys.
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The friend was injured slightly and was released from the hospital the next day.
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She was later released from the hospital and is making good progress recovering at home, a hospital spokeswoman said.
rush
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The needle had apparently disappeared into her thigh, so the nuns had rushed her to the hospital .
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Just before midnight they called off the fast and rushed Snyder to a hospital .
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Fireworks show ends in terror A child is rushed to hospital in an ambulance after the explosion.
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Miss Tish was rushed to the hospital with internal injuries.
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But the following Sunday - it seemed to be always on Sunday - he experienced violent pains and was rushed into hospital .
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And in one case, three teen-age girls were found unconscious in a trunk and rushed to a local hospital .
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She is later rushed to hospital with terrible cramps.
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Olson and Vargas were rushed to Tucson area hospitals .
spend
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Jones received medical attention on the canvas and spent the night in hospital for observation.
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The length of time he spends in this hospital is entirely up to us.
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BThe five days Ashley spent in the hospital with pneumonia, she says, were the best of her life.
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For example, my father had grown very ill and I spent hours in the hospital with him in midtown.
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Most of it will be spent providing hospital accommodation for parents who want to stay with their sick children.
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Physicians no longer should be limited to time spent at the hospital for learning, he reasoned.
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John spent two weeks in hospital and 10 days in the intensive care unit after receiving internal burns.
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Anne spent 3 months in hospital and can barely remember this royal visit.
take
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In the struggle one officer smashed his head on a bench and had to be taken to hospital .
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I was unconscious and had to be taken to the hospital .
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In another accident two people were taken to hospital after a three-car pile-up on the A350, near Chippenham, in Wilts.
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Two passengers with minor cuts and a man with a heart condition were taken to hospitals .
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An ambulance took her to the hospital .
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His grandparents were taken to hospital with fractures and burns after the accident on the A35 near Dorchester, Dorset.
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Anderson wound up taking him to the hospital , where Smyth was treated for a sprained ankle and bumps and bruises.
treat
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Police said 36 people were arrested, mainly for public order offences, and four casualties were treated in hospital .
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The injured were being treated at two Bombay hospitals , police said.
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Four hurt: Four men were treated in hospital after a head-on car crash at Musham Bank, Scarborough.
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Of infections treated in hospitals , about one-third are nosocomial.
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The survivors are being treated in hospital in Yuma, and will be deported when they are able to be moved.
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At least seven people sustained minor injuries and were being treated at local hospitals .
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King's health Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat.
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At least 31 party-goers were treated at local hospitals for symptoms including nausea and accelerated heart rates.
visit
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Relatives who've visited them in hospital say they are recovering.
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Next day before sunup she rose to visit the hospital .
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Yet when Ruksana Khan was attacked, the Home Secretary visited her in hospital and everything.
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Afterward, he visited the hospital , dropped by the Grill for breakfast, and headed to the office, walking.
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They hadn't been to visit Baby in hospital either.
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When I visited her in hospital in Calcutta, she looked faded and worn-out.
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Many new school volunteers were apprehensive about visiting the hospital , anxieties fed by their fear of the unknown.
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Students also visit the hospital in groups.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
land sb in trouble/hospital/court etc
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Being too aggressive can land you in trouble - and still not get you paid.
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But that would land Dolly in trouble.
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In fact, it's the very program that landed Microsoft in court.
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It doesn't have to land you in trouble.
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Might we not show these photographs to the government and land the people in trouble?
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The attendant filed criminal charges against the princess, landing her in court two days after she landed at Logan.
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There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man has been admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds.
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I was in hospital for eight weeks after the accident.
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Lucy works as a nurse at the local hospital .
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There is an urgent need to make more hospital beds available for long-term patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressure rocketing.
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Back to hospital and you must restrain yourself, old boy, nudge wink.
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Bria was taken to the hospital on Feb. 15 after spending the day in her father's care.
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Emmanuel suffered a miscarriage two weeks later and was taken to the hospital shackled and handcuffed.
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He hugged hundreds of babies, shook thousands of hands and cut ribbons at new universities, high-tech factories and a hospital .
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Head-injured patients are normally admitted to hospital and kept there until it is certain that they are fully fit to return home.
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Riley remained on the island - he was in hospital recovering from injuries.