Physicians

A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a 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. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, …

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RAND Corporation · 13 May 2024 English

Because employer-sponsored spending comes from employee wages and benefits, employers have a fiduciary responsibility to administer benefits in the interest of participants. The lack of transparency of prices in the …

pharmacies, many of these drugs are administered by physicians or other clinicians through injections and infusions the rapid consolidation in physician markets. Physicians employed by a hospital or health system are


CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 10 May 2024 English

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general practitioners, and emergency department physicians will typically refer the child to a pediatric confirmation can offer valuable guidance to both physicians and patients regarding the anticipated progression


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 9 May 2024 English

This study explains why Nepal needs to strengthen its National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) to better shield households from the financial impact of health care costs and achieve its ambitious …

workshop with all concerned experts such as physicians specializing in various medical fields. The prices


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 8 May 2024 English

testimony today, I will focus on: Why Pharmaceutical Product Innovation Matters to Patients and Physicians Historical Actions to Address FDA Barriers to Innovation FDA Reform to Promote Pharmaceutical Product

Pharmaceutical Product Innovation Matters to Patients and Physicians 2. Historical Actions to Address FDA Barriers Pharmaceutical Product Innovation Matters to Patients and Physicians As one of the world’s wealthiest countries, licensed biologic products,5 patients and their physicians have options for a variety of diseases. Price reviewer. Reviewers are typically highly trained physicians who depart clinical work and transition into


IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 8 May 2024 English

This paper investigates the effects of releasing remoteness constraints on the accessibility and quality of maternal and infant healthcare. Through a field experiment, we provided complementary demand- and supply-side subsidies …

(CHWs), and health posts (staffed by nurses and physicians) are the main pri- mary care providers in rural


Amnesty International · 7 May 2024 English

This report examines the human rights issues associated with the right to seek international protection in the United States, particularly the use of the CBP One mobile application. On 11 …

pointer-title-42-and-asylum-processing. 33 Physicians for Human Rights, Neither Safety nor Health:


ASH: Action on Smoking and Health · 7 May 2024 English

Slide 1 ASH SMOKEFREE NETWORK Developing your workforce training plan for Tobacco Dependence Treatment Services Professor Matt Evison A new standard of care Treating tobacco dependence in patients admitted to …

Tobacco Lead ■ Allied health professionals ■ TDAs ■ Physicians Inpatient Tobacco Dependence Treatment Training


Fraser Institute · 7 May 2024 English

Despite substantial spending increases by the British Columbia government, the province’s health-care wait times have increased and student test scores have declined. After nearly a decade of relative spending restraint, …

12 specialties2 and utilizes responses from physicians to provide an estimate of the median wait time


Amnesty International · 7 May 2024 Spanish

This report examines the human rights issues associated with the right to seek international protection in the United States, particularly the use of the CBP One mobile application. On 11 …

-pointer-title-42-and-asylum-processing. 33 Physicians for Human Rights, Neither Safety nor Health:


Urban Institute · 6 May 2024 English

To understand how patterns of development have changed over time in Fresno and the broader Central San Joaquin Valley, California (comprising Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare Counties), we evaluate the …

Health Committee, Ontario College of Family Physicians. Brody, Samuel. 2013. “The Characteristics


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