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physician

[fi-zish-uhn] / fɪˈzɪʃ ən /


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That is the sort of information a patient should hear from their physician, who can break the news gently, and provide context and prognosis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Caleb Pepperday is a financial planner who works with clients who are largely between 30 and 50 years old and are physician assistants.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The actor, who plays chief attending physician Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in the medical drama, won the award at Monday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, a repeat effort after the medical drama’s standout freshman season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

“The part that I care about as a physician is lost in the publicity of it all.”

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

What could be better than to have him train as a physician, like his illustrious namesake?

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The bill would ban noncompete and nondisclosure agreements for physicians and require clinicians to oversee administrative tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

More directly involving pharmacists in prescribing decisions alongside physicians could help uncover medication patterns that might otherwise go unnoticed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

A recent Loughborough University study,, external which surveyed more than 100 sports medicine physicians around the world, found 12% were aware of athletes using GLP-1 drugs despite having no medical need for them.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Scientists, physicians, public health experts and medical organizations recognized a gap and worked together to fill it.”

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

It is what physicians used to be engaged in at the bedside of patients with diphtheria, meningitis, poliomyelitis, lobar pneumonia, and all the rest of the infectious diseases that have since come under control.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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