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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.
The title of Doctor of Medical Sciences (Russian: доктор медицинских наук, "doktor medicinskikh nauk" abbreviated д. м. н. [55]) is a higher research doctoral degree, which may be earned after the Candidate of Medical Sciences (the latter is informally regarded in Russia as equivalent to the Ph.D.).
Individual physicians (medical doctors) should be in the appropriate country (and specialty) category. Subcategories This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the founding ceremony of University of Medicine and Pharmacy, November 18, 2020. [1]On May 20, 2010, Prof. PhD. Mai Trong Nhuan (Former Director of VNU-HN) signed Decision to establish the School of Medicine and Pharmacy - Vietnam National University - Hanoi.
Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (1828–1898) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief; Atul Gawande - surgeon and New Yorker medical writer; William Gilbert - British author; father of W. S. Gilbert; Oliver Goldsmith - British author; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist; Richard Hooker - author of M*A*S*H
In United States and Canada, an attending physician (also known as a staff physician or supervising physician) is a physician (usually an M.D., or D.O. in the United States) who has completed residency and practices medicine in a clinic or hospital, in the specialty learned during residency. [1]
Đặng Thùy Trâm (November 26, 1942 – June 22, 1970) was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War . Her wartime diaries, which chronicle the last two years of her life, attracted international attention following their publication in 2005.