According to Webster's II New College Dictionary, a physician is "a natural philosopher, a person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duly authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine."...
The long and sometimes bizarre history of Western medicine can be traced as far back as an Egyptian surgical papyrus of the seventeenth century B. C. E. , which advises treating a head wound by "first softening the head with grease, then pouring...
The term "physician" is often used as a more accurate version of "doctor," since the latter can mean anyone who has completed a doctorate in any discipline. A physician, or doctor of medicine (MD), is a person who has graduated from an accredited...
The word physician applies to a person who practices some type of medicine. Such medical practitioners are concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, through both their area of...
In the heyday of managed care, hospitals and attending physicians often aligned themselves into physician-hospital organizations (PHOs) to negotiate with the HMOs. Valley Health in Winchester is organizing another such organization, but it won't have anything to do with HMOs. The VH Physician...
Understanding their delicate position can help you maximize physician trustee contributions. In hospital and health system boardrooms across the country, trustees are increasingly concerned about overseeing quality of care. Their concerns are driven by greater public scrutiny of hospital quality and the push...
A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family physicians in at least five states by 2020. Population growth and rising numbers of elderly people in Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Texas and Idaho will make the need in those states most...
Complaints by a physicians' group that an anatomy course for some of Virginia's top high school students could lead to "moral indifference" has prompted the program to take down a Web site featuring students posing with pig intestines and fetuses. ...
