What's the difference between physician and physicist?

Physician


Definition:

  • (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (2) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (3) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
  • (4) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (5) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (7) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (8) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
  • (9) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
  • (10) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
  • (11) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (12) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
  • (13) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (14) Physicians and adolescents differed significantly in the ratings of all but one scale, weight.
  • (15) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
  • (16) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
  • (17) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (18) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
  • (19) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
  • (20) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.

Physicist


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in physics.
  • (n.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Americans Stuart Freedman and Jon Clauser and French physicist Alain Aspect were the first to verify quantum entanglement experimentally.
  • (2) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
  • (3) To quantify the effect of these activities on the accuracy of computed doses, five physicists and two dosimetrists performed computerized dose calculations on five applications chosen randomly from our patient files.
  • (4) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
  • (5) Higgs said his discovery, while crucial, was just one element in a worldwide research effort to find the elementary particle that binds matter together, which began in 1960 and only concluded in 1967 when the US physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg finally completed the theory.
  • (6) Almost all elements of psychotic thought including beliefs in disembodied spirits, synchronicity (meaningful coincidences), and the possibility of non-material, actions-at-a-distance can be found among respected Western philosophers, psychiatrists, religious leaders and quantum physicists.
  • (7) It will enhance the technologists's position among his colleagues and he will be able to communicate intelligently with the three-member team--the radiation oncologist, the clinical physicist, and the radiation therapy technologist.
  • (8) In this cataloguq he does not only mention the memorial and prize medals of ophthalmologists but also those of physicists, physiologists, surgeons, opticians who have made a name in the field of ophthalmology.
  • (9) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
  • (10) In May this year, Iran hanged 26-year-old Majid Jamali Fashi, who the authorities alleged was responsible for the assassination of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physicist killed in January 2010.
  • (11) With so many physicists and engineers it could hardly be otherwise.
  • (12) Even in 1975, Elena Bonner Sakharova was able to accept the prize on behalf of her husband, the physicist Andrei D Sakharov.
  • (13) During his stay at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the famous people of his time, such as Einstein (physicist), Mach (physicist and psychophysicist), Lorenz (behavioral scientist), Popper (philosopher), Schlick (physicist and philosopher), Hering (physiologist), and others.
  • (14) A second area involves the requirements now being developed for waste management, which also challenges health physicists by insisting upon safe environments for workers who handle waste products while mandating confirmation and cleanup of hazardous wastes.
  • (15) Particle physicists rank their confidence in new results on a scale in which a "three sigma" signal counts as an "observation", and a more robust five sigma signal claims a concrete discovery.
  • (16) The big bang was originally hypothesised by Belgian priest and physicist Georges Lemaître.
  • (17) Sometimes Cern physicists record some very unusual-looking events, he added.
  • (18) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
  • (19) But Gianotti, along with Incandela and five other Cern physicists, did win the most lucrative prize ever established in science , the special fundamental physics prize.
  • (20) I am also very glad to share it with Dave Wineland because he’s a fantastic physicist and to be in his company is certainly a great pleasure for me and great recognition.