Physician

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 specialities—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.

Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself vary around the world. Degrees and other qualifications vary widely, but there are some common elements, such as medical ethics requiring that physicians show consideration, compassion, and benevolence for their patients. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Eminent Physician
Published 1729
printed for John Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhil; and Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church Fleetstreet

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by Regular physician
Published 1754
Printed for T. Smith, bookseller in Canterbury, and sold by P. Davey, and B. Law, at the Bible and Ball, in Ave-Mary-Lane, London

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by My friend, a physician
Published 1757
printed for Mess. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; Corbet, in Fleet-Street; Griffith, in Pater-Noster-Row; and James, at the Royal Exchange

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by My friend a physician
Published 1758
printed for M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row