Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.

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.

Rudra could bring diseases with his arrows, but he was able to free people of them, and his alternative Shiba, is a healer physician god.

Also, when the patient is standing with arms and hands extended toward the physician, if the eyes are closed, the patient's finger will tend to " fall down " and then be restored to the horizontal extended position by sudden muscular contractions ( the " ataxic hand ").

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ) and this traditional view of Lukan authorship is “ widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data .” The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion.

Another autobiography of the period is De vita propria, by the Italian physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano ( 1574 ).

These controversies, though forced on him, provoked resentment, and it is even related that his physician, Jacob the Schismatic ( Minaah ), was slowly poisoning him, but R. Ammi and R. Assi discovered the crime in time ( Av.

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.

* Doctor ( played by David Cann ): " The Doctor " is a seemingly " normal " physician working in a standard British medical practice.

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.

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.

For a physician in the acute treatment setting, acute alcohol intoxication can mimic other acute neurological disorders, or is frequently combined with other recreational drugs that complicate diagnosis and treatment.

Though colloquial use of the word Doktor for physician is common.

No specific notation or title for the medical disciplines exists in the Netherlands, although a physician is usually referred to as " dokter " ( note the spelling difference ) this does not necessarily imply the physician holds a PhD degree.

When the patient brings about his or her own death with the assistance of a physician, the term assisted suicide is often used instead.

The term " euthanasia " is usually confined to the active variety ; the University of Washington website states that " euthanasia generally means that the physician would act directly, for instance by giving a lethal injection, to end the patient's life ".

His teachings are surprisingly modern, therefore Asclepiades is considered to be a pioneer physician in psychotherapy, physical therapy and molecular medicine.

The queen's personal authority was lessening, as is shown in the affair of Dr. Lopez, her trusted physician.

Little is known of his mother other than that her name was Margaretha Rogers and she was the daughter of a physician.

Epilepsy is usually treated with medication prescribed by a physician ; primary caregivers, neurologists, and neurosurgeons all frequently care for people with epilepsy.

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.

Patients, physicians, health care providers, insurers and quality organizations regard certification as an important measure of a physician ’ s knowledge, experience and skills to provide quality health care within a given specialty.

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 ).

In an essay posted on the Edge website, Dennett gives his firsthand account of his health problems, his consequent feelings of gratitude towards the scientists, cardiologist, surgeons, EMTs, phlebotomists, orderlies, housekeepers, physician assistants, X-ray technicians, meal-bringers, launderers, physical therapists, perfusionist, neurologist, and nurses whose hard work made his recovery possible, and his complete lack of a " deathbed conversion ".

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.

Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a green aura is typically someone who is in an occupation related to health, such as a physician or nurse, as well as people who are lovers of nature and the outdoors.

Gro Harlem Brundtland () ( born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939 ) is a Norwegian Social democratic politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health.

From 1966 to 1969, she worked as a physician at the Directorate of Health ( Helsedirektoratet ), and from 1969 she worked as a doctor in Oslo's public school health service.

In the District of Columbia any police officer, physician, or mental health professional can request to have an individual evaluated at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where they may be detained for up to 48 hours at the direction of the physician on duty.

Hufeland, a German physician, in his book The Art of Prolonging Human Life ( 1797 ), first used the word " macrobiotics " in the context of food and health.

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

Osteopaths in this capacity are not medical school graduates and as such have a very limited alternative care role that is more aligned with being a chiropractor than with being a physician and health care provider.

As this trend continues, he believes he is shrinking and sees his physician, Dr. Bramson ( William Schallert ) who reassures him that he is in perfect health and that " people just don't get shorter.

In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.

Such a " Conversation for Action " can describe a situation in which an external observer ( such as a computer or health information system ) may be able to track the ILLOCUTIONARY ( or Speech Act ) STATUS of negotiations between the patient and physician participants even in the absence of any adequate model of the illness or proposed treatments.

However, by 1815, with the publication of physician Gilbert Blane's On the Comparative Health of the British Navy from 1779 to 1814, the efficacy of portable soup for promoting the health of sailors was found lacking.

The 12th-century rabbi and physician Maimonides touted the benefits of chicken soup to one's health.

In some cases, such as in the UK, South Africa and Australia, a paramedic may be an autonomous health care professional, and does not require the permission of a physician to administer interventions or medications from an agreed list, and can perform roles such as suturing or prescribing medication to the patient.

A health history and a physical examination can in many patients lead the physician to suspect endometriosis.

Medicare also spurred the integration of thousands of waiting rooms, hospital floors, and physician practices by making payments to health care providers conditional on desegregation.