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physician | American Dictionary

physician
noun[ C ]
us/fəˈzɪʃ·ən/
a medical doctor, esp. one who is not a surgeon

Examples of physician

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A physician was permitted to overrule these recommendations by providing the reason at the bottom of the sheet.
Resolution of physician-patient conflicts in courts has become an ordinary event.
But many physicians have refused these incentives because of the risk of control of their practice.
Clearly, the public health official is not replacing the physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both.
Twenty-six of the 30 who reported sterilization said they had a family physician.
These physicians reported that on average 10% of their primary care patients had a history of cancer.
What are the factors that help students resist becoming technical or nonreflective physicians?
A consensus among physicians that lean was healthy only developed after insurance companies began promulgating ideal body-weight tables (the first appeared in 1912).
These suggestions correspond with the problems communicated by the physicians and are, thus, likely to be more successful.
The costs of hospitalization (1;11), surgical procedures (4;33), physician visits (4), and diagnostic tests (4;24) were all included.
The bulleted list reflects the sorts of reasons why physicians have typically practiced the way that they have.
The reasons for the decrease in trained physicians are varied.
To do otherwise is to give patients the sense that their only choice is to agree to what the physician recommends.
Evaluating and combining physicians' probabilities of survival in an intensive care unit.
However, because it was retrospective, some cases have been missed, and the reliability of diagnoses made by primary-care physicians may have been low.
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Collocations withphysician

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These are words often used in combination with physician.

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consulting physician
The consulting physician, however, will only weigh the factual medical information to come to a judgment.
eminent physician
That eminent physician replied that roughage depends purely on how coarsely the wheat is ground.
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