What's the difference between care and coddle?

Care


Definition:

  • (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
  • (n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
  • (n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
  • (n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
  • (n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
  • (2) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
  • (4) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (6) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (7) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (9) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (10) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (11) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (12) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (13) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
  • (14) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (15) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (17) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (19) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (20) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.

Coddle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.
  • (v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're angelic mother-saviours, there to lead Caspar out of misery by coddling his ego.
  • (2) The children of the rich never stop being coddled and gladhanded their way through life; the children of the poor deserve a little bit of support before being dumped on to the minimum wage pile.
  • (3) But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth , the pest that puts maggots on apples.
  • (4) As he put it: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
  • (5) China doesn't just violate the human rights of its citizens, it coddles and supports brutal dictatorships around the world.
  • (6) We didn’t coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran.” On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton’s intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive’s foreign negotiations.
  • (7) France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.
  • (8) Needless to say, the purchasers were wealthy Tory donors looking out for their coddled offspring.
  • (9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
  • (10) Conversely, only one in four residents believed that most poor people become poor as a result of lack of effort on their part, and one in five believed that society is coddling the poor.
  • (11) "For too long," Heijne wrote, "the Dutch government has coddled the dictator in Moscow."
  • (12) Take the ubiquitous calls today for European countries to do just what will "reassure the markets", as though holders of government bonds were trembling, paranoid little flowers who must be psychically coddled at all costs.
  • (13) Crazy,” he says, but then a little voice, the one that has savagely punctured the brattishness of coddled celebrities four times now as presenter of the Golden Globes, kicks in.
  • (14) The radio crackles with adverts attacking the Milwaukee mayor as a gun-controlling, criminal-coddling, union-schmoozing, tax-and-spend liberal dinosaur.
  • (15) The first few days go to staring and coddling and dodging effluent.
  • (16) Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.” The former first lady deconstructed Trump’s policy positions as a recipe for alienating allies, emboldening enemies and coddling dictators.
  • (17) Photograph: Jonathan Kaiman for the Guardian "He walked this weird line between knowing that he was a symbol of nationhood on one level, and even of independence, I guess – but at the same time, he was very comfortable in this coddled position as a performer," said Deborah Stratman, a Chicago-based documentary film-maker who lived with Adili as he toured Xinjiang for three months in 2001.
  • (18) Discussing university “safe spaces” and the threats to free speech, the academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently suggested the problem had its roots in increasingly risk-free, coddled childhoods.
  • (19) Lazy bum babies shouldn’t be coddled with all sorts of indolence-promoting nutrition.
  • (20) The frontrunner for the Republican nomination told the programme’s presenter, Piers Morgan, on Wednesday that residents of the Brussels neighbourhood Molenbeek had “coddled and taken care of” Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam before his arrest.