ship doctor
Maritime medical officer
A ship doctor is a physician employed aboard a vessel to provide medical care during voyages.
Large cruise ships and naval vessels typically have one or more doctors on staff, along with medical facilities.
The role combines general practice with emergency medicine, since the doctor must handle whatever arises far from hospitals: The ship doctor treated her for seasickness and a sprained ankle.
- surgeonPhysician who operates
- medicEmergency care provider
- navalOf maritime warfare
- voyageJourney by sea
- sea legsAdjusted to ship motion
medical kit · sickbay · scurvy · yellow fever · maritime · cabin · fever · bandages · seaman · quarantine · ailing · berth · infirmary · captain · crew · able seaman · galley · salt water
- ship crewsailor, seaman, crewman, deckhand, first mate
- maritime medicineseasickness, scurvy, sick bay, medical officer, drowning
- military medicscombat medic, field medic, corpsman, navy corpsman, medic
- naval medicinecorpsman, naval hospital, nurse corps, sickbay, sick bay
- maritime jobssailor, captain, first mate, seaman, fisherman
- medical officerschief medical officer, CMO, medical director, medical examiner, public health officer