Community Pharmacy - Medical Care

Medical Care

The term medical care is not synonymous with health care. It refers chiefly to those personal services that are provided directly by physicians or rendered as the result physician’s instructions. It ranges from domiciliary care to residence hospital care. Medical care is a subset of health care system.

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