medical profession
Doctors and nurses
The medical profession encompasses the occupations dedicated to maintaining and restoring human health—physicians, nurses, surgeons, and related practitioners.
The term often refers collectively to doctors specifically, or to the standards and ethics governing medical practice: She devoted her life to the medical profession.
Someone enters the medical profession by completing required training and licensing.
- cardiologyStudy of cardiac disorders
- physicianLicensed medical doctor
- Hippocratic OathPhysician's ethical vow
- nurseHealthcare provider, bedside
- stethoscopeMedical listening instrument
residency · pediatrics · anesthetist · bedside manner · informed consent · do no harm · continuing education · patient confidentiality · malpractice law · on call · emergency room · private practice · house call · board certification · scrubs and stethoscopes · licensing exams · oncology · pharmacist
medical professionalternative medicine
Non-standard healing practices
folk medicine · faith healing · quackery · homeopathy · pseudoscience
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