Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States

* 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States

Board certification is the process by which a physician in the United States documents by written, practical and / or computer based testing, illustrating a mastery of knowledge and skills that define a particular area of medical specialization.

Health care is a large sector of Columbia's economy, with nearly one in six people working in a health-care related profession and a physician density that is about three times the United States average.

One CDC physician involved in the United States ' DDT spraying campaign said of the effort that " we kicked a dying dog.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification ( ICD-9-CM ) is an adaption created by the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics ( NCHS ) and used in assigning diagnostic and procedure codes associated with inpatient, outpatient, and physician office utilization in the United States.

* 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and public health official, Surgeon General of the United States ( b. 1911 )

Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to become a physician in the United States.

* 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States

Currently, a specialist physician in the United States may be described as an internist.

In the United States and Canada, the term physician describes all medical practitioners holding a professional medical degree.

In the United States, a pediatrician ( US spelling ) is often a primary care physician who specializes in children, whereas in the Commonwealth a paediatrician ( British spelling ) generally is a medical specialist not in primary general practice.

Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in the United States.

* 1911 – Luther Terry, American physician, 9th Surgeon General of the United States ( d. 1985 )

In the United States, legislation has been introduced several times to allow respiratory therapists certified as asthma specialists with registered respiratory therapist certification to prescribe and manage previously diagnosed respiratory patients in physician clinics.

Respiratory Therapists in the United States are migrating toward a role with autonomy similar to the nurse practitioner, or as an extension of the physician like the physician assistant.

Benjamin Rush was an 18th century United States physician who was influenced by the Age of Enlightenment cultural movement.

The BCEM is the newest certifying body in emergency medicine, and since 1988 the only organization in the United States that will grant board certification in emergency medicine to a physician who has not completed an emergency medicine residency ( but did complete another residency, such as one of the primary care residencies ).

Adjunctive therapies which may be prescribed by a physician are orlistat or sibutramine, although the latter has been associated with increased cardiovascular events and strokes and has been withdrawn from the market in the United States,

A prostatitis diagnosis is assigned at eight percent of all urologist and one percent of all primary care physician visits in the United States.

Now known primarily for his Emblemata, Junius moved to Haarlem in 1550, and wrote several books, acting shortly as the rector of the Latin School there, as the city physician and as historiographer of the States of Holland ( as of 1565 / 66 ).

Leaving Lee's office, Mrs. Shaefer hurried over to her family physician, who treated her for burned tissue.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

Mr. Pezza was taken to a nearby Johnston physician, Dr. Allan A. DiSimone, who treated him.

Yet they keep running from one physician to another, largely to get a willing ear who will listen to their parade of troubles.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

Robin Williams played the physician ; Robert De Niro was one of the patients who emerged from a catatonic ( frozen ) state.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

He was a Marxist physician and member of Chile's Socialist Party, who headed the " Popular Unity " ( UP or " Unidad Popular ") coalition of the Socialist, Communist, Radical, and Social-Democratic Parties, along with dissident Christian Democrats, the Popular Unitary Action Movement ( MAPU ), and the Independent Popular Action.

Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

:: Even to the homeopathic physician who attended me, and rejoiced in my recovery, I could not then explain the modus of my relief.

The disease was named after the Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described it in 1909, but the disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960s ( the outbreak of Chagas disease in Brazil in the 1920s went widely ignored ).

Chagas named the pathogenic parasite as Trypanosoma cruzi and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, both honoring Oswaldo Cruz, the noted Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who successfully fought epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the beginning of the 20th century.

In Argentina, the disease is known as mal de Chagas-Mazza, in honor of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who in 1926 began investigating the disease and over the years became the principal researcher of this disease in the country.

Scottish physician and scientist Joseph Black, who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperature, is said to be the founder of calorimetry.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

Edward Anthony Jenner, FRS ( 17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823 ) was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.

also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista.

Epicurus ' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the Epicurean doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced Greek medicine in Rome.

Franz Anton Mesmer ( May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815 ) sometimes incorrectly referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal ( animal magnetism ) and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism.

In contrast, in the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern half of the Roman empire ( Byzantium ), many commentators of the subsequent centuries, such as Oribasius, physician to the emperor Julian who compiled a Synopsis in the 4th century, preserved and disseminated Galen's works, making Galenism more accessible.