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Practitioner vs Prescriber - What's the difference?

practitioner | prescriber |

As nouns the difference between practitioner and prescriber

is that practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine while prescriber is a person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication.

practitioner

English

(wikipedia practitioner)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.}}
  • One who does anything customarily or habitually.
  • (label) A sly or artful person.
  • * John Whitgift
    • the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

    Derived terms

    * general practitioner * nurse practitioner * pracademic

    Related terms

    * practic * practicable * practical * practice * practise

    References

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    prescriber

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 1, author=The Associated Press, title=Prescription-Writing Law Is Voided, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=