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2. What Is a Physician? What Do They Do and When to See One - WebMD

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   A physician is a general term for a doctor who has earned a medical degree. Physicians work to maintain, promote, and restore health by studying, diagnosing, and treating injuries and diseases.

3. Physician - Wikipedia

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   Physician. 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.

4. What Is a Primary Care Physician? - WebMD

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   Your primary care doctor can examine you, order blood tests and other tests, make a diagnosis, and prescribe medications. If you have a chronic condition like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, or ...

5. DO vs. MD: What's the Difference? - WebMD

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   What Is an MD? MD stands for doctor of medicine. MDs are allopathic doctors.That means they treat and diagnose conditions using conventional medical tools like X-rays, prescription drugs, and surgery.

6. Types of Doctors: PCP vs. Family Doctor vs. Internist

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   An internist is a doctor only for adults. A family medicine doctor can treat people of all ages, but an internist only treats older adolescents and adults. Like a family medicine doctor, an ...

7. What Is an Orthopedic Doctor? What Do They Do? - Healthline

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   Orthopedic doctors treat a wide variety of conditions, including but not limited to the following: bone fractures. muscle strains. joint or back pain. arthritis. carpal tunnel syndrome. injuries ...