The convergence of these two distinct healing traditions and their common practitioners ' own inventiveness have led to an ever-changing and expanding array of concepts in the western world.

In each of these, a Reichskammer ( Reich Chamber ) was established, co-opting leading figures from the field ( usually not known Nazis ) to head each Chamber, and requiring them to supervise the purge of Jews, socialists and liberals, as well as practitioners of " degenerate " art forms such as abstract art and atonal music.

Since there has been a lot of cross-fertilization between these styles, with many practitioners training or competing under the rules of more than one style, the history of the individual styles cannot be seen in isolation from one another.

From these figures, the All Japan Kendo Federation estimates that the number of " kendōka " in Japan is 1. 66 million by adding the number of the registered dan holders and the active kendo practitioners without dan grade.

One consequence of the Act is that solicitors, accountants, tax advisers and insolvency practitioners who suspect ( as a consequence of information received in the course of their work ) that their clients ( or others ) have engaged in tax evasion or other criminal conduct from which a benefit has been obtained, are now required to report their suspicions to the authorities ( since these entail suspicions of money laundering ).

Based on Chinese and Indian martial arts, practitioners claim that these systems can be traced back to a thousand years.

As a result, the use by medical practitioners of these older MAOIs declined.

While much Native American spiritualism exists in a tribal-cultural continuum, and as such cannot be easily separated from tribal identity itself, certain other more clearly defined movements have arisen among " traditional " Native American practitioners, these being identifiable as " religions " in the clinical sense.

Through most of the 20th century, many of these techniques were expensive and involved a small number of dedicated craft practitioners, while the reusability of props, models, effects, or animation techniques made it easier to keep using them.

Re-construction of these older systems may or may not be performed by practitioners familiar with the modern sport and is not at present likely to be particularly widespread.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

In particular, these terms are used as everyday terminology by researchers and practitioners, spanning a vast landscape of different fields, technologies, concepts and application areas.

" There were a number of interchangeable terms for these practitioners, ' white ', ' good ', or ' unbinding ' witches, blessers, wizards, sorcerers, however ' cunning-man ' and ' wise-man ' were the most frequent.

The FDA has also alerted pharmacists and other medical practitioners about the dangers of confusing these drugs, and has recommended that opium tincture not be stocked as a standard item ( i. e., that it should not be " on the shelf "), that opium tincture be dispensed in oral syringes, and that pharmacy software alert the dispenser if unusually large doses of opium tincture appear to be indicated.

Their first solution to this problem was to interview leading practitioners of business and to write detailed accounts of what these managers were doing.

Demographic surveys by Palmer and Ownby in these communities found that 90 % of practitioners are ethnic Chinese.

Lee felt that these systems were " artificial " and fooled its practitioners into a false sense of true martial skill.

Though the practitioners of necromancy were linked by many common threads, there is no evidence that these necromancers were ever organized as a group.

Many of these centres are filled to capacity in terms of general doctors, and there are often fairly long waiting lists and the centres also utilize nurse practitioners, who reduce the workload on the doctors and increase efficiency.

Details of these practices are normally only explained to practitioners by their teachers after receiving an initiation or ' permission to practice '.

The founders and earliest practitioners of these religions lived extremely austere lifestyles, refraining from sensual pleasures and the accumulation of material wealth.

Called burvji, burtnieki ( wizards ) or raganas ( witches ) these might in reality have been folk medicine practitioners.

Unfortunately for western practitioners, there are currently no known English translations of these works.

Edzard Ernst has said that in Austria and Germany complementary and alternative medicine is mainly in the hands of physicians, while some estimates suggest that at least half of American alternative practitioners are physicians.

For this reason, its practice violated the natural laws of medicine, transforming health care practitioners into those who harm rather than heal.

Complaints were made against local Dianetics practitioners for allegedly practicing medicine without a license.

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.

In medicine, all medical practitioners trained in Canada receive the MD degree ( or MDCM in the case of graduates of McGill University ) and are referred to as " Doctor ".

The term empirical was originally used to refer to certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine who rejected adherence to the dogmatic doctrines of the day, preferring instead to rely on the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience.

Tools used by practitioners of evidence-based medicine include:

However, the achievements of the writers of the Corpus, the practitioners of Hippocratic medicine, and the actions of Hippocrates himself are often commingled ; thus very little is known about what Hippocrates actually thought, wrote, and did.

Some elements of qi can be understood in the term energy when used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine.

This includes those performing roles which are also found in human medicine, such as practitioners dealing with musculoskeletal disorders, including osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists.

Of historic and traditional value, the oath is considered a rite of passage for practitioners of medicine in many countries, although nowadays the modernized version of the text varies among them.

In addition, the applicable entries provide pronunciation transcriptions pursuant to those found among North American practitioners of law or medicine.

Critics, including most practitioners of medicine, dismiss iridology given that published studies have indicated a lack of success for its claims.

A sizable number of practitioners of alternative medicine are located in Zutphen.

Examples of health workers are doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, dentists, medical laboratory technologists, therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, chiropractors, optometrists, community health workers, traditional medicine practitioners, and others.

Traditional natural medicine practitioners surveyed in Australia could have problems in understanding and applying the concept of EBM.

Organized interventions to improve health based on the principles and procedures developed through the health sciences are provided by practitioners trained in medicine, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, social work, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other health care professions.

General practitioners, obstetricians, and other types of physicians with no experience in forensic medicine have become medical examiners.

Further, the whole " mindset " of aviation / flight medicine practitioners is different from that of non-aviation physicians.

In Shamanism, Eliade argues for a restrictive use of the word shaman: it should not apply to just any magician or medicine man, as that would make the term redundant ; at the same time, he argues against restricting the term to the practitioners of the sacred of Siberia and Central Asia ( it is from one of the titles for this function, namely, šamán, considered by Eliade to be of Tungusic origin, that the term itself was introduced into Western languages ).

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