In the Old Testament, Jehovah-Rapha, translated " I am the Lord your Physician " or " I am the Lord who heals you ", is one of the seven redemptive names for Jehovah God.

The Persian physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (" Rhazes ", 845 – 930 CE ) maintained a laboratory and school in Baghdad, and was a student and critic of Galen, made use of opium in anesthesia and recommended its use for the treatment of melancholy in Fi ma-la-yahdara al-tabib " In the Absence of a Physician ", a home medical manual directed toward ordinary citizens for self-treatment if a doctor was not available.

Through the utilization of the National Practitioner Data Bank, Healthcare Integrity Protection Databank, Federation of State Medical Boards Disciplinary Report, and American Medical Association Physician Profile Service, the 67 State Medical Boards ( MD / DO ) continually self-report any Adverse / Disciplinary Actions taken against a licensed Physician in order that the other Medical Boards in which the Physician holds or is applying for a Medical License will be properly notified so that corrective, reciprocal action can be taken against the offending physician.

Mainstream health organizations critical of conversion therapy include the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Physician Magnus Hirschfeld was an outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, founding the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights.

Sir William Burnett, the Physician General of the Navy, interviewed him and arranged for the College of Surgeons to test his competence ( by means of a viva voce )

In 2005, USC established a federal relations office in Washington, D. C. A Health Sciences Alhambra campus holds The Primary Care Physician Assistant Program, the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research ( IPR ), and the Masters in Public Health Program.

Physician Magnus Hirschfeld established the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft ( Institute for Sexology ) in 1919, and it remained open until 1933.

* Physician Aleixo de Abreu is granted a pension of 16, 000 reis for services to the crown in Angola and Brazil by Philip III of Spain, who also appoints him physician of his chamber.

After developing his method for creating powerful lenses and applying them to study of the microscopic world, Van Leeuwenhoek was introduced via correspondence to the Royal Society of London by the famous Dutch Physician Reinier de Graaf.

Succeeding a Dr Wilkinson on 14 October 1609, he became the Physician in charge at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which enjoined him, " in God's most holy name " to " endeavor yourself to do the best of your knowledge in the profession of physic to the poor then present, or any other of the poor at any time of the week which shall be sent home unto you by the Hospitaller ... You shall not, for favor, lucre or gain, appoint or write anything for the poor but such good and wholesome things as you shall think with your best advice will do the poor good, without any affection or respect to be had to the apothecary.

He also served as Honorary Consulting Physician to the Toronto General, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Toronto Western Hospital.

* Evaluating the Child for Sexual Abuse at the American Family Physician

An obituary in the Canadian Family Physician emphasized his humanity and noted that his anger — at his diagnosis, at press misrepresentations and at those he saw as encroaching on his independence — spoke against ascribing sainthood for Fox, and thus placed his achievements within the reach of all.

Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant ( MPAS )

Poster encouraging citizens to " Consult your Physician " for treatment of the common cold

The first Physician to arrive in Winnebago was Dr. Wesley Rush Gearhart, who practiced medicine in Winnebago for 30 years.

Milford was the childhood home of Dr. Ronald C. Brown, noted labor historian and winner of the 2000 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize for " No One Ailing Except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West 1848-1919 " which he co-authored with Dr. Duane A. Smith.

Physician W. Roy Smythe, M. D., Chairman of Surgery for Scott & White Memorial Hospital, the Scott & White Healthcare system and the Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, grew up in Belton, and graduated from Belton High School in 1978.

* Edward Hallowell – Physician and international authority on attention deficit disorder.

The College's Physician Assistant ( PA ) program is one of the oldest and best established in the world.

The university offers several Masters degrees in Education ( MAEd ), Psychology ( MAPC ), Business Administration ( MBA ), Physician Assistant Studies ( MSPA ), and Christian Studies ( MACS ), as well as an Educational Specialist program and a Doctoral program in Education ( Ed. D.

In the spring semester of 2010, University of the Cumberlands began their Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program with their first cohort of physician assistant students.

* the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies, the state's only Physician Assistant training program.

The Montefiore Medical Center Postgraduate Surgical Physician Assistant Program was established in 1971 as the first clinical postgraduate PA program to be recognized.

In the United States, a graduate from an accredited PA program must pass the NCCPA-administered Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam ( PANCE ) before becoming a PA-C ; this certification is required for licensure in all states.

The Physician Assistant Institute matriculated its first class at the University in January 2011 At present the program is in candidacy status with the relevant accreditor Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.

From this program emerged in 1991 the College's first graduate degree offering, the Physician Assistant Master's program.

Since 1998, Alderson – Broaddus has added programs in digital art, marketing, family studies, RN-BSN and LPN-BSN degree completion programs for nurses and a surgery track in the College's Master's Physician Assistant program.

In 2012, the school announced a new Physician Assistant program.

York ’ s Occupational Therapy Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education ( ACOTE ) of the American Occupational Therapy Association ( AOTA ); York ’ s Physician Assistant Studies Program is accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc .; York ’ s Social Work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education ; and the Nursing Program by the National League for Nursing.

Physician Assistant ( PA ) – It is the second CUNY to offer a BS Physician Assistant program ( The first being City College of New York ).

In addition, the Physician Assistant program was most recently ranked 6th by U. S. News & World Report '".

The Physician Assistant program, housed in the Department of Medical Science and Community Health, has again graduated another class with a 100 % pass rate on the national boards.

In the 2006 edition of its magazine, Arcadia was able to announce that " strategic growth finds Arcadia adding a graduate school campus in Paris, forging a new study abroad program in China, setting up a Physician Assistant program in Delaware and opening a peace center in Tanzania ".

The School of Health Professions at UNTHSC started with the Physician Assistant program in 1997, which became the first PA program in Texas granted authority to award the Master of Physician Assistant Studies ( MPAS ) degree.

More importantly, early next year the Pathé production unit down in the south of France in Nice made le Médecin du chateau ( The Physician of the Castle ), in which there are cuts back and forth between criminals threatening a doctor's wife and child, while the doctor himself drives home to rescue them after being warned by telephone.

A professional peer-review process is found in the Ethics of the Physician written by Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi ( 854 – 931 ).

The term " stalactite " was coined in the 17th century by the Danish Physician Ole Worm who created the word from the Greek root stalasso, ( σταλάσσω ), " to drip ".

The university would later add the Yale School of Music ( 1894 ), the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies ( founded by Gifford Pinchot in 1901 ), the Yale School of Public Health ( 1915 ), the Yale School of Nursing ( 1923 ), the Yale School of Drama ( 1955 ), the Yale Physician Associate Program ( 1973 ), and the Yale School of Management ( 1976 ).

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

* The Visit of the Royal Physician ( Livläkarens besök ) ( 1999, novel ) by Per Olov Enquist.

The original Hippocratic Oath began with the invocation " I swear by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods ..."

* Physician Raymond Tallis describes the psychoanalytic school established by Jacques Lacan as an example of cargo cult science.

One of the most noteworthy homes is St Basil's, a riverfront mansion built by socialite Physician Dr. John Scratchley in the 1850s.

* Tranquilizer by Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician, from album Repaint Tomorrow

The original Hippocratic Oath began with the invocation " I swear by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods ..."

The ethical standards of Muslim physicians was first laid down in the 9th century by Ishaq bin Ali Rahawi, who wrote the Adab al-Tabib ( Conduct of a Physician ), the first treatist dedicated to medical ethics.

The first documented description of a peer review process is found in the Ethics of the Physician written by Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi ( 854 – 931 ) of al-Raha, Syria, who describes the first medical peer review process.

As the series continued, some key changes were made: Nurse Carol Hathaway, played by Julianna Margulies, who attempts suicide in the original pilot script, was made into a regular cast member, while Gloria Reuben and Laura Innes would then join the series as Physician Assistant Jeanie Boulet and Dr. Kerry Weaver, respectively, by the second season.