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Doctor Specialties List

Doctor Specialties could include:
  • Orthopedic surgeon
  • Plastic Surgeon

Specific Doctor Specialties Articles

Medical Specialist: Family Medicine
The American Board of Medical Specialties recognizes Family Medicine as a distinct discipline requiring an additional three years of training for doctors who wish to become Board Certified in this field. Family Medicine doctors are usually primary care providers (PCPs) [formerly general practitioners, or GPs] for the entire family.
Source:HealthLine
Date:February 20, 2008
Choosing a qualified surgeon
Choose a specialist who has performed many of these procedures and who is board certified in his or her particular specialty...Many disease processes and surgical procedures have support groups to assist patients...See also choosing a primary care provider ...
Source:ADAM
Date:July 25, 2007
General Surgery
General surgery is the treatment of injury, deformity, and disease using operative procedures. Purpose General surgery is frequently performed to alleviate suffering when a cure is unlikely through medication alone.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Finding a Surgeon
Definitions Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific procedure. It is almost always done in the context of elective surgery rather than emergency operations.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Pediatrician
A physician who specializes in the treatment of children from birth through adolescence. A pediatrician is a physician who has taken extra training in the development and diseases of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults through age 21.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Wilson, Owen
American pediatrician 1870-1960 A portrait of Owen Wilson. In the preface of " The Care and Feeding of Southern Babies, " Wilson said that other similar works focused on childrearing in cooler climates, and therefore were inapplicable to infants in the southern United States.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
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