What's the difference between mandatory and unnecessary?

Mandatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
  • (n.) Same as Mandatary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (2) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
  • (3) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
  • (4) Results of venous thrombectomies are particularly astonishingly good in phlegmasia coerulea and it is therefore mandatory to transfer all fresh cases of thrombosis of the deep veins of the peelvis and lower extremities to an angiologic center in order to differentiate cases for fibrinolytic therapy, from those which require surgical intervention.
  • (5) Additional criteria such as diagnosis by culture are, therefore, mandatory.
  • (6) Fast surgical intervention is mandatory to prevent myocardial infarction or to limit the extent of injury.
  • (7) The cooperation between physiatrist and gynecologist is mandatory.
  • (8) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
  • (9) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
  • (10) Both groups received ventilatory management involving intermittent mandatory ventilation.
  • (11) Most of these patients were managed without paralysis using intermittent mandatory ventilation and positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (12) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
  • (13) A close post-operative follow-up is mandatory, since most of the failures were caused by loss of the Jones' tube.
  • (14) However, because the potential exists for recurrence of the cardiac tumor, for enlargement of the cerebral lesions, or for late development of cerebral lesions, long term follow-up is mandatory and a vigorous work-up must be pursued if the patient again becomes symptomatic or develops central nervous system manifestations for the first time.
  • (15) In October 2014 an Aboriginal woman died while being detained for mandatory alcohol treatment .
  • (16) Since the importation of toxin-producing diphtheria bacteria is unavoidable and may occur at all times, universal active immunisation in childhood, as well as timely revaccination of adolescents and adults, are mandatory prophylactic measures to prevent new epidemics.
  • (17) Relief of the increased intrapericardial pressure is mandatory to establish adequate cardiac output.
  • (18) To offer these individuals the optimum result, it is mandatory to have close liaison with an orthodontic colleague.
  • (19) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (20) However, aortography is mandatory for complete preoperative evaluation.

Unnecessary


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (3) This may result in the unnecessary implementation of antidotal therapy.
  • (4) Thus, the enzyme-immunoassay shows specificity and sensitivity comparable to radioimmunoassay making use of radioactive tracer unnecessary.
  • (5) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
  • (6) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (7) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
  • (8) In these cases, a thyroid scintiscan may avoid an unnecessary surgical intervention.
  • (9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
  • (10) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
  • (11) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
  • (12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
  • (13) Thus, modification in the dosage regimen of digoxin may be unnecessary in the case of coadministration with captopril.
  • (14) Only CT-guided or direct parasternal biopsy including immunhistochemistry can yield a reliable preoperative diagnosis and prevent unnecessary operation of lymphomas.
  • (15) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
  • (16) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
  • (17) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
  • (18) No abdominal injuries were present in the group in whom the lavage results were negative, while no unnecessary laparotomies were performed in the group with a 4+ or 5+ positive DPL (calorimetric method).
  • (19) It would thus appear that repetition of the hCG injection at intervals of less than 4 days is unnecessary, and that a total stimulation period of 2-3 weeks is sufficient.
  • (20) The importance of ECG studies in these cases is stressed in order to establish the differential diagnosis and avoid unnecessary delays in the application of the proper therapy.