HOW TO PRONOUNCE
physician
/fəˈzɪʃən/
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What does physician mean?
noun
- A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
- A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
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IPA pronunciation
/fəˈzɪʃən/
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All this time Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient.
In the morning his kind physician found him entirely free from feverish symptoms, and fit to undergo the fatigue of a journey.
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But he died prematurely of diphtheria, and Rosamond afterwards married an elderly and wealthy physician, who took kindly to her four children.
It was one of the many little human documents which had been unfolded to him during his long career as a physician.
What would you think of a physician who saw men suffering from a curable disease and did nothing to alleviate their sufferings?