clinician
noun
cli·ni·cian
kli-ˈni-shən 
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Closing Asia’s healthcare gap would otherwise require millions of new beds and hundreds of thousands of clinicians, a process that would take decades.
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Abrar Mir, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
When patients independently purchase drugs outside traditional prescribing channels, clinicians may no longer know which medications a patient is taking, at what dose, for how long and for what indication.
—Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
The data can also be shared selectively and securely with clinicians and caregivers.
—Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
That is, clinicians have a duty to restrict the range of clinical options, because medical interventions with unfavorable risk/benefit profiles can set back patients’ health interests rather than protecting or promoting them.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
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Abrar Mir, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
When patients independently purchase drugs outside traditional prescribing channels, clinicians may no longer know which medications a patient is taking, at what dose, for how long and for what indication.
—Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
The data can also be shared selectively and securely with clinicians and caregivers.
—Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
That is, clinicians have a duty to restrict the range of clinical options, because medical interventions with unfavorable risk/benefit profiles can set back patients’ health interests rather than protecting or promoting them.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Clinician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clinician. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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clinician
noun
cli·ni·cian
klin-ˈish-ən
: an individual qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory
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