in the hospital

in the hospital

Receiving medical or surgical treatment, care, or attention at a hospital. My grandmother is in the hospital again for hip surgery. I heard you were in the hospital last week! Are you all right?
See also: hospital
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • in hospital
  • rush to the hospital
  • bed blocker
  • homeless dumping
  • get well
  • be on the danger list
  • bulk
  • bulk bill
  • bulk billing
  • be on the mend
References in classic literature
If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician--little more than a senior student.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
He saw the wind making on the clouded horizon, and thought of the sick in the hospital. Here was something waiting his hand to be done, and it was not in his nature to lie down and sleep, or die, when any task remained undone.
He was cheered, also, by the situation in the hospital. Despite the storm there had been but one death, and there was only one fresh case, while half a dozen boys crawled weakly away to the barracks.
Adventure
In turn, patients who suffer from the most common and the most life-threatening diseases, such as heart tremors, liver cancer, cervix and uterine cancer, are registered as quickly as possible in the hospital.
Rich clinic, poor clinic: looking for efficiency, public hospitals in Chile go head-to-head with private providers. (Healthcare)
"If there is a 'code blue' [a life-threatening emergency] in the hospital and it's not their patient, they don't respond," Baggett said.
Crisis coast to coast: health-care providers and regulators urge medical liability reform. (Property/Casualty: Medical Malpractice)
PC Craig Rayson is co-ordinating the joint initiative with hospital managers to try to reduce thefts, break-ins and criminal damage involving vehicles parked in the hospital's grounds.
Crackdown on hospital crime; Police pledge over Walsgrave car parks