physician

physician
Broadly, one who practices the art of healing disease and preserving health. 41 Am J1st Phys & S § 2. A person skilled in the art of healing. State v Borah, 51 Ariz 318, 76 P2d 757, 115 ALR 254. One who is proficient in the art of healing by means of the application of physics or medicine to the patient. 41 Am J1st Phys & S § 2. One who prescribes remedies for sickness and disease. Travelers Ins. Co. v Bergeron (CA8 Iowa) 25 F2d 680, 58 ALR 1127, cert den 278 US 638, 73 L Ed 553, 49 S Ct 33. Technically, one legally qualified for, and engaged in, the practice of medicine. Joyner v State, 181 Miss 245, 179 So 573, 115 ALR 954. For the purposes of privilege in communications between "physician" and patient:–only one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine under authority duly granted to pursue that profession. 58 Am J1st Witn § 411. The word is derived from the Greek word "phusis," meaning nature, and in a restricted sense means one who administers medicine to cure diseases, but, in its proper sense, it has a broader signification, and means one who by a knowledge of the nature and structure of the human system, and of the nature and properties of substances, cures the injuries and diseases to which it is subject. The word includes not only doctors, who administer medicine and physic, but surgeons who, by a knowledge of the human system, are able to amputate an injured and diseased limb, or to extract a bullet with skill and as much safety to life and as little pain as the case admits of. Re Hunter, 60 NC 372. The word "physician," as used in a statute authorizing the registration of any person who was a reputable resident physician of good moral character and who, on a date designated by the statute, was engaged in the actual practice of medicine within the state, and who submitted a diploma or other credential or evidence of his qualification, was construed as including any person of whatever school, and whether belonging to any known school, engaged in good faith in treating human ills by any remedy or remedies, however simple, so as to be known among the people as a physician, and not limited to such persons as possess that technical knowledge of the human system and the knowledge of the drugs and other remedies, and how to administer them, commonly supposed to be possessed by members in good standing of the great schools of medicine. Anno: 4 ALR2d 684.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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