The words we use in consultation

Words used in a clinic mean different ranges in different places. When the same word is heard as two different things, the mismatch surfaces only after the decision is made. Here is the range Lecell Cheongdam gives four of the words it uses in consultation.

Item

The smallest named unit. In consultation it is the “what.” An item alone does not set a schedule. Choosing one is closer to the start of a consultation than its conclusion. Since the same name can be composed differently from place to place, we do not compare by name alone.

Session

How many times a single item is divided across. A session count is a number, but the word also holds the interval between them. State the count without the interval and no schedule stands. When we say “three times,” an interval always comes attached. When setting sessions we check together when the next visit is possible; if the interval is hard to keep, we set them again.

Program

Items and sessions, and their arrangement, bound together. Not a list of items but a composition with an order in it. The same items at the same counts, arranged differently, are a different program. A program is settled in consultation and may be adjusted afterward as condition changes. Even when adjusting, we explain it in the same four words.

Follow-up

A visit to look at condition afterward. We keep it separate from a visit meant to add something. Call the two by one name and they overlap in the schedule, and in practice one drops out. A follow-up often ends quickly. Being short does not make it a place to skip.

The four are not definitions that hold only inside Lecell Cheongdam, but the least agreement needed to point at the same thing in consultation. If a word feels like a different range during consultation, ask again on the spot. Asking again is always faster.

What applies, and how, is settled after consultation and testing.