Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): La baja médica termina hoy.

In Spain, la baja médica usually means sick leave or medical leave: a period when a doctor has officially signed you off work because you are ill or injured.

A few useful notes:

baja on its own can mean several things in Spanish, such as drop, cancellation, removal, or leave/status off work
In this expression, baja médica is a fixed, very common phrase
In everyday Spanish in Spain, people often simply say la baja when the context is clear

So La baja médica termina hoy means that the official period of medical leave ends today.

Why is there la at the beginning?

Spanish normally uses the definite article more often than English does.

So:

la baja médica = the sick leave / the medical leave

In this sentence, it refers to a specific medical leave that both speaker and listener already know about. That is why la sounds natural.

Without the article, baja médica would usually sound more like a label or dictionary form rather than a complete, natural subject in this sentence.

Why is it médica and not médico?