a physician

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• Physician writer — Physician writers are medical doctors who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine. Their works include short stories, novels, poetry, drama, screenplays, children’s literature, speculative fiction, scholarly works, essays,… …   Wikipedia

• Physician supply — refers to the number of trained physicians working in a health care system or active in the labour market.[1] The supply depends primarily on the number of graduates of medical schools in a country or jurisdiction, but also on the number who… …   Wikipedia

• Physician self-referral — is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient and having them performed either by himself or by a facility from which he receives a financial incentive for the referral. There are many forms of self referral.… …   Wikipedia

• physician-patient privilege — The right to withhold evidence in a trial or other legal proceeding on the basis that any information disclosed by a patient to a doctor for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment is confidential (unless the patient consents to disclosure).… …   Law dictionary

• Physician — Phy*si cian, n. [OE. fisician, fisicien, OF. physucien, a physician, in F., a natural philosopher, an experimentalist in physics. See {Physic}.] 1. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Physician to the Queen — Physician to the King/Queen is the title of the physician acting as officer of the Medical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Postholders * Sir Richard Thompson, KCVO DM FRCP, appointed 1993, retired 2005.*… …   Wikipedia

• physician assistant — n. a person trained and certified to perform various medical procedures under the supervision of a physician: also physician s assistant * * * …   Universalium

• physician's assistant — physician s as·sis·tant ə sis tənt or physician assistant n a specially trained person who is certified to provide basic medical services (as the diagnosis and treatment of common ailments) usu. under the supervision of a licensed physician… …   Medical dictionary

• physician — physician, doctor, surgeon The normal word for a medical practitioner in general contexts is doctor (abbreviated as a title to Dr). Physician is familiar from the proverb Physician, heal thyself (Luke 4:23) and has the same range of meaning as… …   Modern English usage

• physician — ► NOUN ▪ a person qualified to practise medicine. ● physician, heal thyself Cf. ↑physician, heal thyself …   English terms dictionary

• physician assistant — n. a person trained and certified to perform various medical procedures under the supervision of a physician: also physician s assistant …   English World dictionary