Practitioner vs Physician - What's the difference?
practitioner | physician |
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
*:The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice.
As nouns the difference between practitioner and physician
is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while physician is a practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.practitioner
English
(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
