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doctor
doctor originally (in Middle English) a person skilled in, and therefore entitled to teach or speak authoritatively on, any branch of knowledge, a learned person; the word comes via Old French from Latin doctor ‘teacher’, from docere ‘teach’.From this developed the... Read more |
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Doctors of the Church
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Juris Doctor
JURIS DOCTOR The degree awarded to an individual upon the successful completion of law school. Juris doctor, or doctor of jurisprudence, commonly abbreviated J.D., is the degree commonly conferred by law schools. It is required in all states except California (which includes an option called law... Read more |
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witch doctor
witch doctor In the genre of African colonial literature, the ‘witch doctor’ — Gagool in Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, for example — serves as an allegory for the dark, sinister, forces of barbarism.This is a gross distortion of the actual situation in Africa;... Read more |
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Doctors Without Borders
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Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea and vomiting Definition Nausea is the sensation of being about to vomit. Vomiting, or emesis, is the expelling from the stomach of undigested food through the mouth. Description Nausea is a reaction to a number of causes that include overeating, infection, or... Read more |
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Animal Magnetism
ANIMAL MAGNETISM "Animal magnetism" is a term popularized by the Viennese doctor Franz Mesmer. In M Read more |
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Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin , 1560-1624, Swiss botanist and doctor of medicine, of French descent. His early classification of plants by genus and species in his chief work, the Pinax theatri botanici (1623), anticipated the binomial arrangement of Linnaeus. Bauhin reformed anatomical nomenclature, especially... Read more |
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Patients Rights
PATIENTS' RIGHTS The legal interests of persons who submit to medical treatment. For many years, common medical practice meant that physicians made decisions for their patients. This paternalistic view has gradually been supplanted by one promoting patient autonomy, whereby patients and doctors... Read more |
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Fathers of the Church
Fathers of the Church collective name for the Christian writers of early times whose work is considered generally orthodox. A convenient definition includes all such writers up to and including St. Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great) in the West and St. John of Damascus in the East (see ... Read more |
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doctor
doctor • verb 1. doctor the patientssynonyms: treat, prescribe for, attend to, minister to, care for, cure, heal. 2. doctor the machinerysynonyms: patch up, repair, fix, mend, botch. 3... |
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physician
physician • noun consult your physician firstsynonyms: doctor, doctor of medicine, MD, medical practitioner, general practitioner, GP, clinician, family doctor; specialist, consultant; informal doc, quack, medic, medico; intern, resident; informal, dated sawbones. |
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fake
...reproduction; informal phony, rip-off, knockoff, dupe. 2. that doctor is a fake synonyms: charlatan, fraud, fraudster, mountebank...falsify, mock up, copy, pirate, reproduce, replicate; doctor, alter, tamper with. 2. she faked a yawn synonyms: feign... |
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vet
...council synonyms: check, examine, scrutinize, investigate, inspect, look over, screen, assess, evaluate, appraise; informal check out. • noun I took the cat to the vet synonyms: veterinarian, animal doctor, horse doctor. |
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drug
drug • noun 1. drugs prescribed by doctors synonyms: medicine, medication, medicament, pharmaceutical; remedy, cure, antidote...drugs to, tamper with, adulterate, contaminate, lace, poison; informal dope, spike, doctor. |
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prescription
prescription • noun 1. the prescription of drugs is part of a doctor's jobsynonyms: prescribing, ordering, advising. 2. the doctor wrote a prescription for antibioticssynonyms: instruction, order, direction. 3... |
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amputate
amputate • verb doctors had to amputate two fingerssynonyms: cut off, sever, remove (surgically), dismember, saw/chop off. |
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as
...live as their ancestors didsynonyms: in the same manner that, in the same way that; inf. like. 6. the well-paid, as doctors and lawyerssynonyms: such as, for instance, for example, namely, viz; inf. like. 7. as you know, he's deadsynonyms... |
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attend
...synonyms: care for, look after, minister to, see to; tend (to), treat, nurse, help, aid, assist, succor; informal doctor. 4. he attended to the boy's education synonyms: deal with, see to, manage, organize, sort out, handle, take care... |
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bleed
bleed • verb 1. the wounded/wounds were bleeding badlysynonyms: shed/lose blood, emit blood. 2. doctors formerly bled patientssynonyms: draw blood from, remove/take blood from; fml. phlebotomize. 3. sap bleeding from a cut in... |
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Doctors offering new house call - on 900 line
...newspaper ask-the-doctor columns and the AMA...phone service and the doctors do not make formal clinical...Kovachevich said his doctors are trained to first...if the caller is, the doctor re fers that person to...He said 900-line doctors should not have incentives... |
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Doctors Seek Cure For Rules; Effort on Hill Targets Medicare Red Tape
...simply because the doctor wants to make extra...Medicare uncovers such doctors by running patient...requires the covering doctor to do the billing. Doctors say this creates...which increase doctor income. Many of the steps to curb doctors were taken, said... |
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Calling doctors about drug interactions
...prescriptions, yet some doctors think we have nothing...about interactions. One doctor told my partner we were...inadequate knowledge. Or the doctor simply uses the occasion...his ego. Because of doctors' attitudes, we may...medications. I called your doctor and he feels there will... |
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Doctors reveal secret to getting red carpet treatment: Ask the right...
...Check out the doctors who provide coverage for your doctor. * Ask a doctor...org). They ask doctors where they trained for their specialty a doctor who has trained with...privileges. Most doctors look for a doctor who has privileges... |
 "The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)")
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Doctors leave scissors in girl's stomach.
...was better to contact the LGH doctors as they knew well about history...working as a housemaid in a lady doctors house informed her about the incident. The lady doctor herself took the girl to Ittefaq Hospital where doctors in ultrasound examinations... |
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Doctors aim for respect, then money: financial compensation is one thing, but...
...define the expert doctor in workers' compensation. These doctors practice at the peak...Yet insurers and doctors are beginning to talk...entails in the insurer/doctor relationship. am...evaluating a network of doctors. And that's just... |
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Doctors Protest in South Korea
...drugs without a doctor's prescription Estimates of doctors attending today...40-year-old doctor. The government...medical fees for doctors by an average...Korea, a most doctor's fees are set...government. The doctors demanded a larger... |
 "The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)")
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Doctors, industry -- a conflict?
...hospital where the doctor practices. Health...require independent doctors who practice at their...companies unless the doctor is involved in a...though, realize that doctors' ties to industry...increasingly pay doctors to oversee clinical...ties influence a doctor's behavior... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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DISILLUSIONED DOCTORS HAVE PLENTY TO SAY.(Living)
...pulling reluctant doctors into the social...of the country. A doctor may be criticized...some people view doctors as isolated and insensitive...cartoon showing a doctor's receptionist...I'm sorry. The doctor does not make phone...touched a nerve among doctors. Several said that... |
 "The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Doctors saying no on moral grounds: Survey says many withhold information,...
...spoke with said the doctor would not write prescriptions...went back to the first doctor and now tries to select doctors whose views are closer...has never heard of a doctor refusing to administer...terminal illness. "Some doctors see it as a comfort... |
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