specifically: a health care professional (such as a dermatologist, internist, pediatrician, or urologist) who has earned a medical degree, is clinically experienced, and is licensed to practice medicine as usually distinguished from surgery : a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine
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: someone or something that has a beneficial effect or influence
Do justice with mercy. That is what, in essence, the brilliant physician of the heart and soul, Maimonides, tried to teach us 900 years ago. Jack Weinstein
you should always consult a physician if you develop a high fever
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English phisicien, fisicien, from Anglo-French, from phisique medicine