Physician topic

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M.D.,
Medical Doctor,
MD,
Doctor

A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury. This is accomplished through a detailed knowledge of anatomy, physiology, diseases and treatment — the science of medicine — and its applied practice — the art or craft of medicine. The word physician φύσις (physis) and its derived adjective physikos, meaning "nature" and "natural". From this,... full article at wikipedia

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Michelle Bachelet	Children's Hospital Roberto del Río	1983	1986
Peter Agre	Fort Bragg
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Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp	Rembrandt
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Dr. Gregory House
Doctor Watson	Sherlock Holmes Universe
Professor Challenger
John Dorian	Scrubs
Igor	Discworld
Dr. Lawn	Discworld
Abbey Bartlet	The West Wing
Adam Stanton
Thomas Wayne	DC Universe
Doctor Syn
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Stephen Franklin	EarthForce
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Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.	Voltaire
Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?		Unknown
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
The relation nurse/doctor is even more complex than the relation patient/doctor.	Gerhard Kocher
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.	Jean de La Bruyère
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?	Plato
The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.		Unknown
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.	Voltaire
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.	Mark Twain
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.	Denis Diderot
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