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physician
1. Someone who is qualified and licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.
2. A doctor who practices general medicine with diagnoses and treatments of diseases and injuries using methods other than surgery.
3. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.
2. A doctor who practices general medicine with diagnoses and treatments of diseases and injuries using methods other than surgery.
3. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.
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“physician”
(Greek: physician; heal, cure, treat; medical healing)
(Latin: heal, cure, remedy; physician, doctor; practice of medicine, give medicine to)
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
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allopathic physician
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allo-, all-
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bariatric physician
A physician practicing bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with
weight loss.
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iatro-, iater-, -iatria, -iatric, -iatrician, -iatrics, -iatrist, -iatry; -iatricians, -iatrists, -iatries +
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eclectic physician
Someone of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as a botanic physician.
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legi-, -leg-, -ligi-, -lig-, -lect-, -lectic, -lection
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family doctor, family physician, family practitioner (s) (noun); family doctors, family physicians, family practitioners (pl)
A physician whose medical training is to provide comprehensive medical care for parents and their offspring: The family doctor is a general physician who has been trained to treat illnesses of all of the members of a family; including the very young and the adults.
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leech or physician
A former name for a medical doctor which came from an Old English word originally meaning "to pull".
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Medicine, Leeching for Health +
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Those medical doctors who plan and provide comprehensive primary health care to all members of families, regardless of ages or sexes, on a continuing basis: "Primary care physicians are doctors who are in charge of managing family member’s health care needs."
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Health Care Providers, Health-Care Providers, Healthcare Providers
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