{"id":112622,"date":"2021-06-15T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=112622"},"modified":"2022-05-16T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:13:04","slug":"medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/medical-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, care which was under the direction of a physician. For a time, &#8220;medical care&#8221; came to refer only to those portions of the care provided directly or personally by a physician, with the care given by other professionals (such as nursing care, rehabilitation, and the like) excluded, or at least semi-independent, from the definition of medical care. So the term &#8220;patient care&#8221; was introduced. 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