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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack, and I am one of the hosts of the podcast, and I'm here with my co host, Sochil.
And today we are going to do a quick chat episode, and we're going to talk about the difference in meaning between clinic and hospital.
And we're going to actually give some examples because I live in South Korea and Sochil lives in Mexico, and Mexico and Korea are kind of similar in the way that they use clinic and hospital.
But Sochil and I are both from the United States, and in America, we use hospital and clinic differently.
They don't have the same meanings.
So, social.
Where should we start with this, do you think?
Well, I would say define how it's used in American English.
When we're talking about clinics in American English, we are talking about going to the doctor's office, which is something that you do for minor illnesses such as a cold, a flu, your arm hurts, anything like that, that's your preliminary for step.
And our medical care system is a little bit different.
Most of the time, you need to see a general doctor, a general practitioner to be referred to a specialist.
When we're talking about a hospital in the US, we're talking about a larger institution.
Usually it's associated with the university, and that institution is for emergencies.
So if you fainted, you go into cardiac arrest, you broke your arm or leg, or you're having really severe pain, you would go to the ER.
And that is also known as a hospital colloquially.
So if you are really sick and you're saying, please, someone take me to the hospital, they're going to take you to the ER, which is emergency room, and it's more expensive as well.