Physician

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  • M.D.,
  • Medical Doctor,
  • MD,
  • Doctor
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A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor is a person who holds a medical degree, practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury. This is accomplished through a detailed knowledge of anatomy, physiology, diseases and treatment — the science of medicine — and its applied practice — the art or craft of medicine. The word physician comes from an ancient Greek noun φύσις (physis) and... full article at wikipedia

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Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
jkatigbac
Last edited by jkatigbac Aug 29, 2008

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