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What is a Physician?
The Concise Oxford Dictionary’s definition of a physician is: ‘n. 1. a.person legally qualified to practise medicine and surgery b. a specialist in medical diagnosis and treatment c. any medical practitioner 2. a healer (“work is the best physician”)’.
Physicians are concerned with the practice and diagnosis of medicine. They are not surgeons and do not perform operations.
They carry out a range of investigations and procedures e.g. biopsies, endoscopies, give advice, and prescribe a variety of treatments from simple drugs to more complex regimes e.g. stem cell (bone marrow) transplants.
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