practicing physician
1physician — n. 1) an attending; family; house; practicing physician 2) an allopathic; homeopathic; osteopathic physician * * * [fɪ zɪʃ(ə)n] family homeopathic house osteopathic physician practicing physician an allopathic an attending …
2practicing — also practising adjective Date: 1625 actively engaged in a specified career or way of life < a practicing physician > …
3Physician 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,… …
4Physician 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… …
5Physician assistant — A physician assistant/associate (PA) is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.[1] Conte …
6physician — noun (formal, esp. AmE) ADJECTIVE ▪ family (AmE), general, hospital (esp. BrE), occupational (BrE), primary care ▪ Dr Dennett is a practicing family physician in Atlanta. ▪ …
7Physician — For other uses, see Doctor (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Physicist, a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physician …
8Physician assistant (PA) — A mid level medical practitioner who works under the supervision of a licensed doctor (an MD) or osteopathic physician (a DO). The physician assistant came about in the 1960s as a response to the need for more clinicians (there was a shortage of… …
9practicing — adj. Practicing is used with these nouns: ↑architect, ↑attorney, ↑barrister, ↑Buddhist, ↑Catholic, ↑Christian, ↑homosexual, ↑Jew, ↑lawyer, ↑Muslim, ↑nurse, ↑ …
10physician's liability insurance — A form of liability insurance, now in common use, which insures a physician against liability from acts or omissions while practicing his profession. Insurance against malpractice, error, or mistake. 29A Am J Rev ed Ins § 1358 …
