A patient reaches secondary care as a next step from primary care, typically by provider referral although sometimes by patient self-initiative.
In contrast, the word intervention tends to be specific and concrete, and thus the word is often countable for example, one instance of cardiac catheterization is one intervention performed, and coronary care (noncount) can require a series of interventions (count). Thus, in health care contexts (where its senses are always noncount), the word care tends to imply a broad idea of everything done to protect or improve someone's health (for example, as in the terms preventive care and primary care, which connote ongoing action), although it sometimes implies a narrower idea (for example, in the simplest cases of wound care or postanesthesia care, a few particular steps are sufficient, and the patient's interaction with that provider is soon finished). Moving rightward through that order, the connotative level of holism decreases and the level of specificity (to concrete instances) increases. The words care, therapy, treatment, and intervention overlap in a semantic field, and thus they can be synonymous depending on context.
You will read more about the present tense in unit 10.This section needs expansion.
It is, therefore, called the narrative present. The present tense is often used when we give a commentary on a game (cricket, football, etc.), or tell a story as if it is happening now. This gives the reader an impression of immediacy. (ii) In the paragraphs above from the story the verbs are in the present tense (e.g. Thirty minutes later : Bruno gets up and has a great feed ! He looks at us disdainfully, as much as to say, Whats barium carbonate to a big black bear like me? Bruno is still eating. injected! Ten minutes later : breathing less stertorous-Bruno can move his arms and legs a little although he cannot stand yet. Ten minutes later : condition unchanged! Another 10 c.c. of the antidote enters his system without a drop being wasted. Hold him, everybody! In goes the hypodermic-Bruno squeals-10 c.c. Bruno still floundering about on his stumps, but clearly weakening rapidly, some vomiting, heavy breathing, with heaving flanks and gaping mouth.
(You can begin : The vet and I made a dash back to the car. Can you rewrite the paragraph in complete sentences? Here the writer is using incomplete sentences in the narration to make the incident more dramatic or immediate. Notice the incomplete sentences in the following paragraphs.