In American and Canadian parlance, "doctor" is most often used for all types of physicians and surgeons, including internists, pediatricians, gynecologists, and all other surgical and nonsurgical specialists who hold M.D. degrees. The term also applies to physicians from other fields of medicine, to which the degree 'M.D.' is inapplicable, including doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.), doctors of Podiatric Medicine (D.P.M.), doctors of Optometry (O.D.), and so on. A quick note on genres of medicine is appropriate at this juncture. The degree ...

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Unbeknownst to most people today, and especially to many Germans at the time, Hitler suffered from several medical ailments. In 1934, the young Schutzstaffel officer and surgeon Dr. Karl Brandt, assisted by Professor Werner Haase, was assigned as his escort physician. Professor Theodore Morell, who was reputed for syphilis treatment prescription, became Hitler's physician and a member of the Fuhrer's inner circle by the ...

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Doctor means teacher in Latin. It has been used continuously as an honored academic title for over a millennium in Europe, where it dates back to the rise of the university. This use spread to the Americas, former European colonies, and is now prevalent in most of the world. As a prefix – abbreviated "Dr." – its primary designation is a person who has obtained a doctorate — that is, a doctoral degree - which is the highest rank of academic degree. Doctoral degrees may be "research doctorates," awarded on the basis ...

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Adolf Hitler's medical health has long been a subject of popular controversy. There has also been speculation regarding his mental health. Adolf Hitler's medical health - Doctors and drugs. Unbeknownst to most people today, and especially to many Germans at the time, Hitler suffered from several medical ailments. In 1934, the young Schutzstaffel officer and surgeon Dr. Karl Brandt, assisted by Professor Werner Haase, was assigned as his escort physician. Professor Theodore Morell, who was reputed for ...

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Medicine is the branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. It is both an area of knowledge – a science of body systems, their diseases and treatment – and the applied practice of that knowledge. The practice of medical care is shared between the medical profession (physicians or doctors) and other groups of professionals such as nurses and pharmacists (sometimes known as allied health professionals). Historically, only th ...

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The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest association of medical doctors in the United States. Its purpose is to advance the interests of physicians, to promote public health, to lobby for medical legislation, and to raise money for medical education. The AMA also publishes the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and runs the Stop America's Violence Everywhere, or SAVE, program. American Medical Association - History. 1847, Dr. Nathan Smith Davis and others establishe ...

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The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional body to which the vast majority of British doctors belong. It is based in Tavistock Square in central London. It owns the "British Medical Journal", one of the world's more prestigious medical journals. It was established by the amalgamation of several regional medical associations, of which the original was probably that from Worcester, and dates from around 1860. It has a complex representational structure which allows doctors to be represented both by th ...

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Albert Hustin (1882-1967) was a Belgian medical doctor. He was the first to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions after discovering that sodium citrate could be used as an anticoagulant. This Belgian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Other related archives1882, 1967, Belgian, anticoagulant, biographical, blood transfusions, help, medical doctor, sodium citrate, stub

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An anesthesiologist (American English), or anaesthetist (British English), is a medical doctor trained to administer anesthesia. Training varies depending on the country. In Australia, for example, training is overseen by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. In the United States, anesthesiologists are medical doctors (MD) or osteopathic physicians (DO). Anesthesiologists complete four years of medical school training, a one year internship, then three years of postgraduate training in the form ...

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Palpation is a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional). Palpation is used by medical doctors and chiropractic doctors for particularly for thoracic and abdominal examinations, but also for examination of edema and palpation of pulses. See also:. Physical examination Inspection (medicine) Percussion (medicine) Auscultation

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The United States Medical Licensing Examination is a multi-part professional exam medical doctors are required to complete before being authorized to practice medicine in the United States of America. It consists of three steps; all three must be passed before a physician is eligible to apply for a license to practice medicine. A parallel exam, the "Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination" (CO ...

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Wilk v. American Medical Association was a federal antitrust suit brought against the American Medical Association and 10 co-defendants by chiropractor Chester A. Wilk, DC, and four co-plaintiffs. Until 1983, the AMA had made it unethical for medical doctors to refer patients to chiropractors, by classifying chiropractic as unscientific. Prior to 1980, Principle 3 of the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics stated: "A physician should practice a method of healing founded on a scientific basis; and he should not voluntarily profe ...

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The chief medical officer (CMO) is an official in the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom who regularly advises their respective government on health related matters. Such a person is the most senior advisor on health matters in both systems of government, and the term has also found some usage in non-government circles such as policing. In any case of usage within these two countries the chief medical officer will be a qualified medical doctor whose duties will not include treatment but typically only advise such as ...

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In Shakespeare's day, lawyers were called "civil doctors," as distinct from the medical doctor and other types. Academically, however, law is only a doctoral subject in a small number of countries, the United States and all European countries among them. Worldwide within the legal profession, all pracitising attorneys are called "Mr." or "Ms./Mrs./Ms./Miss," regardless of whether they possess a doctoral degree or not. This is a convention of the courts, of litigation and of the legal profession generally — which, as professions go, ...

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Faye Barker: Born in the Todmorden in 1987 Faye Barker is one of the most influential writers of the twenty first century , creating web based projects such as “The Doctor Bob Experiment.” And “No its you.” . Currently studying at the Manchester metropolitan university Barker is working on her first book due for publication this May. Faye Barker: One of the most influential writers of the 21st centaury. Bob Smith (Robert Holbrook Smith, b. 8 August 1879 d. 16 November 1950) was a medical doctor and surgeon ...

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Victor Robinson (born 1886, Ukraine, died 1947) was a physician and medical journalist. He is the author of several medical books, including An Essay on Hasheesh (1910) about cannabis and also founded the journal Medical Life. In 1924 he helped organize the History of Science Society. He had studied pharmacy at NYU and the New York College of Pharmacy, law at Columbia University and a doctor of medicine degree at Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, which has since been incorporated in ...

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As higher education has evolved in Anglophone societies, the doctorate has become the highest degree awarded in any academic discipline. Historically, academic degrees were parallel and equal to one another. The baccalaureate indicated a general education in the standard subjects of the era. The master's degree indicated mastery of a particular subject in practical terms; in a sense, the Master of Arts was the first professional degree. The degree "doctor," by contrast, was oriented toward teaching qualifications. The baccalaureate was subor ...

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All persons who possess a doctoral degree are entitled to call themselves "Doctor". (However, the use of "doctor" as a noun is almost exclusively limited to medical doctors.) Physicians invariably use the title "Doctor" as a prefix. Dentists, podiatrists, chiropractors, osteopaths, optometrists and veterinarians are also called Doctor whether or not they possess a doctoral degree. (In the United States, however, they invariably do.) In the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other areas whose culture was more recently li ...

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In Shakespeare's day, lawyers were called "civil doctors," as distinct from the medical doctor and other types. Academically, however, law is only a doctoral subject in a small number of countries, the United States and all European countries among them. Worldwide within the legal profession, all practising lawyers are called "Mr." or "Ms./Mrs./Ms./Miss," regardless of whether they possess a doctoral degree or not (an exception is the Channel Islands, where they bear the title of Advocate). This is a convention of the courts, of litig ...

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