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Acute and Chronic illnesses and injury can adversely affect your physical, emotional, relational and spiritual well being. Taking control over your life is vital to gaining well being and living life to the fullest. With good preventive care, early intervention, and the many treatment options available, management of many illnesses can be successful and provide individuals with a quality of life that allows for continued living with dignity
Respiratory. Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the , , , , , and , and the nerves and muscles of . Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the , to life-threatening entities like , , and . The study of respiratory disease is known as . A doctor who specializes in respiratory disease is known as a pulmonologist, a chest medicine specialist, a respiratory medicine specialist, a respirologist or a thoracic medicine specialist.