as in physician
a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher
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Recent Examples of clinician
For example, telling the AI chatbot to take on the persona of a clinician and asking it one question at a time improved the accuracy of its responses.
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Kate Ruder, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Fuciarelli recently helped form the Therapeutic Kitchen Collective with a group of chefs and mental-health clinicians across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy who have similar goals.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
In the clinic’s small lab, staff can do rapid testing for HIV and syphilis and on-site testing for female patients for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis — which allows clinicians to prescribe medication and treat patients immediately.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
Patients should be sure to report symptoms to their clinicians, and clinicians need to be vigilant and consider Legionnaires’ disease as a possibility.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
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Kate Ruder, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Fuciarelli recently helped form the Therapeutic Kitchen Collective with a group of chefs and mental-health clinicians across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy who have similar goals.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
In the clinic’s small lab, staff can do rapid testing for HIV and syphilis and on-site testing for female patients for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis — which allows clinicians to prescribe medication and treat patients immediately.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
Patients should be sure to report symptoms to their clinicians, and clinicians need to be vigilant and consider Legionnaires’ disease as a possibility.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for clinician
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clinician
Noun
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After a while, the physician gestures and a man places a pot at Ellen’s feet.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Around the turn of the 19th century, a Viennese physician named Franz Joseph Gall proposed a new, and controversial, hypothesis about the human brain.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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This includes reducing the documentation burden for doctors and cutting different types of paperwork that nurses have to do.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Abnormal liver function tests, otherwise known as LFTs, can prompt your doctor to check your liver more carefully.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And that there are rules for the two attending.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
12 Aug. 2025
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Some of us suspected this was coming last year when Jules got all starstruck over the cardio attendings and later told Winston off for being dismissive about professional cuddlers.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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The study found that patients of hospitalists who placed in the top quartile of a professional exam from the American Board of Internal Medicine were nearly 8% less likely to die within a week than the patients of doctors with the lowest-quartile scores.—
Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Her journey from hospitalist to a leader in lifestyle medicine is driven by a powerful belief that health is determined by the total quality of one's life.—
Kyle J. Russell,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Clinician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinician. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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