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A physician, medical practitioner ( British English ), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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- Physicians in the United States
Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
A physician or medical doctor is a person who uses medicine to treat illness and injuries to improve a patient's health. In most countries, the basic medical degree qualifies a person to treat patients and prescribe appropriate treatment , including drugs .
