Physician/Related Articles

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Parent topics

•  Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Doctor (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
•  Surgery: Field of medicine that focuses on operative treatments of the body. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Anesthesiologist: Add brief definition or description
• Cardiologist: Add brief definition or description
• Dermatologist: Add brief definition or description
•  Disease: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. ^[e]
•  Electronic medical record: A digital form of medical (hospital or clinic) record. ^[e]
•  Hippocrates: (c. 460 – 370 BCE) A physician, who revolutionized the practice of medicine by transforming it from its mythical, superstitious, magical and supernatural roots to a science based on observation and reason. ^[e]
•  Hippocratic Oath: An oath traditionally taken by physicians before practising medicine. ^[e]
•  Homeopathy: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. ^[e]
•  Hospitalist: Physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. ^[e]
• Internist: Add brief definition or description
•  Medical ethics: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. ^[e]
•  Medication: A licensed drug taken to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical condition. ^[e]
•  Nuclear medicine: That medical specialty, or subspecialty, concerned with diagnosis and treatment using radioisotopes administered to the patient ^[e]
• Orthopedist: Surgeon specializing in the branch of surgery treating diseases and conditions involving the musculoskeletal system; also spelled orthopaedist. Sports medicine is an important subfield. ^[e]
•  Primary care physician: Add brief definition or description
• Surgeon: Add brief definition or description
• Virologist: Add brief definition or description

Notable physicians

• Anthony Fauci: American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the members of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force. ^[e]
• Deborah Birx: Dr. Deborah Leah Birx is an American physician and diplomat who served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump since 2014; she also served as the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force. ^[e]
•  John McKinly: A summary description of John McKinly, emphazing the career, political, location and family factors involved in the his career. ^[e]
•  Joshua Clayton: Add brief definition or description
•  Luc Montagnier: French virologist (b. 18 August 1932) and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their co-discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). ^[e]
•  Marcia Angell: An American physician at Harvard, author, and first female editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. ^[e]
•  Ron Paul: (1935–) libertarian U.S. Congressional Representative(R-Texas) and physician; sought Republican Presidential candidacy in 2008; father of Rand Paul; advisory board and national chair, 1996, Republican Liberty Caucus ^[e]

Other related topics

•  Acute radiation syndrome: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation ^[e]
•  American Cryonics Society: California-based non-profit corporation that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics and cryobiology. ^[e]
•  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: (1632 - 1723) Dutch scientist who discovered single-celled organisms. ^[e]
•  Bacteriophage: Add brief definition or description
•  Chloroform: Add brief definition or description
•  Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Add brief definition or description
•  Genetic counseling: Add brief definition or description
•  Genetics: Add brief definition or description
•  Hemochromatosis: Add brief definition or description
•  Infant mortality: Add brief definition or description
•  Influenza: Add brief definition or description
•  Multiple sclerosis: Add brief definition or description
•  Neuroimaging: Add brief definition or description
•  Paracelsus: Add brief definition or description
•  Patient satisfaction: Add brief definition or description
•  Pharmacy: Add brief definition or description
•  Physician-patient relationship: Add brief definition or description
• Public health: Add brief definition or description
•  Radioactivity: Add brief definition or description
•  Radiology: Add brief definition or description
•  Scoliosis: Add brief definition or description
•  Skin: Add brief definition or description
• Snake (animal)bite: Add brief definition or description
•  Venereal disease: Add brief definition or description