"A physician, medical
practitioner (British
English), medical doctor,
or simply doctor is
a health
professional who practices medicine,
which is concerned with promoting,
maintaining or restoring health through
the study, diagnosis, prognosis and
treatment of disease, injury,
and other physical and mental impairments.
Physicians may focus their practice on
certain disease categories, types of
patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialties—or
they may assume responsibility for the
provision of continuing and comprehensive
medical care to individuals, families, and
communities—known as general
practice. Medical practice properly
requires both a detailed knowledge of
the academic
disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying
diseases, and their treatment, which is
the science of
medicine, and a decent competence in
its applied practice, which is the art or craft of
the profession." Source
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