会诊

• Pinyin: huì zhěn
• Hanzi breakdown: 会 = 人 + 云 (together/joint); 诊 = 讠+ 珍 phonetic (speech/words + precious, to examine/diagnose)

Meaning

A joint medical consultation in which multiple doctors from different specialties examine and discuss a patient's case together. To conduct such a consultation.

The standard medical term for a multi-disciplinary team consultation. Can also be used figuratively for multi-expert consultations on complex problems in non-medical fields (policy, law, engineering). Common in hospital contexts and increasingly in formal problem-solving discourse.

Examples

1. 面对这例罕见病例，院方紧急组织了由内科、外科和神经科专家共同参与的多学科会诊。 Faced with this rare case, the hospital urgently organized a multidisciplinary consultation involving experts from internal medicine, surgery, and neurology.
2. 经过数位专家联合会诊，医疗团队最终确定了一套综合治疗方案，患者的病情随后得到明显改善。 After a joint consultation by several specialists, the medical team finally settled on a comprehensive treatment plan, and the patient's condition improved significantly afterward.
3. 在政策制定领域，这种多部门联合会诊的机制有效避免了单一视角可能带来的决策盲点。 In policymaking, this kind of multi-department joint consultation mechanism effectively avoids blind spots that can come from a single perspective.

Usage Guide

Context: medicine, healthcare, hospital

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 鉴于患者病情复杂，涉及多个系统性疾病，主治医生决定申请多学科联合会诊，以制定最为安全有效的综合治疗方案。(Given the complexity of the patient's condition, involving multiple systemic diseases, the attending physician decided to request a multidisciplinary joint consultation to formulate the safest and most effective comprehensive treatment plan.)
• 远程会诊技术的普及，使偏远地区的患者也能够得到来自大城市顶级医院专家的专业诊断意见，极大地缩小了城乡医疗资源的差距。(The widespread adoption of remote consultation technology has enabled patients in remote areas to receive professional diagnostic opinions from top hospital specialists in major cities, greatly narrowing the gap in medical resources between urban and rural areas.)

Don't Say

• 会诊 for a regular single-doctor appointment — use 就诊 or 门诊; 会诊 specifically refers to a joint consultation involving multiple specialists examining one case together

Origin & History

会 (joint/together) + 诊 (examine/diagnose) — a joint medical examination

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal