physician

Also known as doctor, physicians, medical doctor, medical practitioner, medical doctors, doctor of medicine

professional who practices medicine

OverviewAI-generated

A physician is an occupation classified under ISCO-08 code 221 and ISCO-88 code 2221. The role is associated with the Commons category "Physicians" and the OpenStreetMap tag "healthcare=doctor". It is equivalent to the schema.org entity Physician.

In academic literature, a PubMed query for "physician" yields a count of 910,388 results. Additionally, the concept is referenced by 11,417 other encyclopedia articles within the Vinony graph. The occupation also corresponds to Merchant Category Code 8011.

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Research

910,388 papers

Physician Health Series Part One: Characteristics of Physicians as Patients.ReviewMayo Clinic proceedings · 2024Couser GP, Hagen PT, Swift MD et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2023.08.027
Physician's prescription and pharmaceutical industry's influence - where have the ethics gone?ReviewJPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association · 2024Ahmer ZDOI: 10.47391/JPMA.AKU-EPP-09
On the human family physician.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019Ladouceur R
Physician heal thyself.Indian heart journal · 2018Agrawal ADOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2018.08.014
The Physician's Physician: The Role of the Psychiatrist in Helping Other Physicians and Promoting Wellness.ReviewThe Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2019Nakagawa K, Yellowlees PMDOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2019.05.012
A physician's grief observed.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022Frank CDOI: 10.46747/cfp.6812915
[Physician's errors].ReviewDeutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2000Scheppokat KDDOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1024181
[Physician's intuition].ReviewKlinicheskaia meditsina · 2012Abaev IuK

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Encyclopedic overview

The Doctor, an 1891 portrait by Luke Fildes A medical doctor, also known as a physician (American and Canadian English) or medical practitioner (British English), is a health professional who practices medicine. Medicine aims to promote, maintain or restore health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental conditions.

Doctors may focus on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment, known as specialities. Others work in general practice, providing continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families. Medical practice requires both thorough knowledge of the medical sciences—such as anatomy, physiology, diseases, and their treatment—and strong competence in applying this knowledge in practice, which forms the art or craft of the profession.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “physician” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.