elective
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Elective care covers a broad range of planned, non-emergency services, from diagnostic tests and scans to outpatient appointments, surgeries and cancer treatment.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025
Elective care refers to medical tests or treatment that can be planned well in advance, in contrast to unscheduled care such as emergency surgery.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2023
Elective procedures are a major component of medical tourism, said Daniel Béland, a professor of political science at McGill University who has studied health policy.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023
Elective changes would have happened by now, so evaluate what you actually have.
From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022
But Goethe, in the dramatically conceived Elective Affinities, focuses attention not upon the doings of individuals, but upon the sanctions of the law which a power superior to their wills forces them to break.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
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