(n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(4) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(5) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(6) The system is being exploited by population specialists, demographers, medical demographers and epidemiologists, both nationally and internationally, both for analytical purposes and as part of health monitoring systems.
(7) Management of these patients was difficult and emphasizes the need for specialist expertise for patients with epilepsy and apparent epilepsy.
(8) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(9) And it comes as members of the European parliament in Brussels plan to establish a specialist group to campaign in favour of carbon divestment and demand new carbon reporting requirements.
(10) Therefore, rehabilitation specialists should treat patients who had brain strokes, taking into consideration the localization of the lesion focus and promote the use of techniques directed toward a correction of specific right hemispheric defects.
(11) An examination involving British specialists confirmed they were from Iran.
(12) Cecil Laguardia is an emergency specialist at World Vision
(13) The emergence of consultation psychiatry as an important psychiatric subspecialty is in part due to the siting of psychiatric units in general hospitals, the manifest advances in medical technology and the increasing elderly population needing specialist care.
(14) A questionnaire was answered by 542 health professionals (392 general practitioners, 20 specialist oncologists, and 130 oncology nurses).
(15) Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg yesterday and South African media report that he has been seen by a specialist pulmonologist who treats respiratory disorders.
(16) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(17) The results suggest that this relationship contributed to changes in health care utilization, including reductions in use of emergency rooms, specialists, and nonphysician providers and some increase in the likelihood of obtaining care from a primary care physician.
(18) This paper presents strategies for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in the school setting in case management of migrant children with dental disease.
(19) Providing accessible, effective health care to this population in the face of today's economic climate is a problem facing community health clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) with increasing frequency.
(20) In the meantime, it is accepted that many hospitals have to provide the best treatment they can without access to the specialist knowledge and equipment which may be available elsewhere.
Specialty
Definition:
(n.) Particularity.
(n.) A particular or peculiar case.
(n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
(n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(2) Neuroradiology, originally developed through invasive techniques arising out of cooperation between radiology and neurosurgery, has today become a specialty which, thanks to its new non-invasive methods, can provide much information about diseases of the nervous system.
(3) The indices are based on patient-level data so they can be aggregated at any level (hospital, specialty, physician), are easy to use and interpret by hospitals, and provide an inexpensive method for evaluating hospital performance using existing databases.
(4) The panel stressed that students be taught strategies for obtaining the training necessary for postgraduate entry into a specialty area such as early intervention.
(5) The authors constructed personality profiles for the students who had chosen each of these seven specialty groupings, on the basis of t-tests and discriminant function analyses, and discuss these profiles and their associations with the students' specialty choices in the context of earlier research.
(6) An adequate mechanism to implement recertification can emerge only from the profession itself, working through the American Board of Medical Specialties and specialty boards.
(7) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(8) The HMO and fee-for-service plans had similar prevalence of psychiatric disorder and similar access to specialty mental health care.
(9) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(10) This paper examines the types of coping strategies used by two groups of persistent pain sufferers: one from a family practice clinic and the other from a specialty pain clinic.
(11) Because emergency medicine is a broad-based specialty, there is much leeway in the structure of resident education.
(12) A theoretical basis and an organizing framework are needed in this specialty field in order to assure that we are providing comprehensive and holistic care.
(13) For the decision involving adjuvant chemotherapy, specialty, hospital size, and presence of radiotherapy equipment on site were important predictors.
(14) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(15) The majority of nurses entering the specialty of rehabilitation have little or no previous rehabilitation experience.
(16) Results of questionnaire survey of 275 physicians of major clinical specialties are provided in regard to 26 aspects of medical expertise.
(17) Since the first use of lasers in ophthalmology in the early 1960s, applications for the medical laser have been found in many medical specialties.
(18) The parents should not be expected to be the "brokers" for various specialty services.
(19) Two services were identified, in which an increased LOS represented a difference in the practice patterns of physicians in these specialties, in comparison with those of other physicians in this area.
(20) Urologists were found to work short hours relative to other surgical specialties, and their operative work load ranked sixth among the ten surgical specialties.