specialist

specialist
A physician who confines his practice to specific diseases or disabilities. A physician who holds himself out as having special knowledge and skill in the treatment of a particular organ or disease and who is bound to bring to the discharge of his duty to patients employing him as a specialist that degree of skill and learning ordinarily possessed by physicians who devote special attention and study to such organ or disease, having regard to the present state of scientific knowledge. 41 Am J1st Phys & S § 90. In the broad sense, any person who concentrates in practice upon a division of a profession, occupation, or calling.

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