The advice or judgement of a doctor or group of doctors.
it may help to get a second medical opinion from another doctor
mass noun medical opinion cautions against fad dieting
Example sentencesExamples
- The discussion is still unresolved and medical opinion varies.
- He admits that he needed a favourable medical opinion to have a viable case.
- Last December, following expert medical opinion, a court in Flanders ordered that the waste incinerator be closed.
- Contrary to expert medical opinion, Jonathan is still alive four months after doctors expected him to die.
- The medical opinion is that her problems will increase with age.
- Contemporary medical opinion on the subject is conflicting.
- Ten months on, she has defied medical opinion to make a miraculous recovery.
- He examined the plaintiff on two occasions and he provided expert medical opinion evidence at trial.
- After a number of medical opinions and a specific regimen, he is doing much better.
- We had obtained an independent medical opinion from somebody outside the hospital who was a specialist.
- A substantial body of medical opinion shares this concern.
- She promised that their case would be supported by medical opinion.
- The Scottish Act provides for second medical opinions and the right of access to the Court of Sessions to resolve disputes.