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Role of Humans in

Medicine
Physician/Doctor

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a


professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting,
maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of
disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus
their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients and methods of
treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the
provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families,
and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires
both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and
physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment—the science of medicine—
and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or craft of medicine.
Nurse
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector
focused on the care of individuals, families, and
communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover
optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be
differentiated from other health care providers by
their approach to patient care, training, and scope of
practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with
differing levels of prescription authority. Many nurses
provide care within the ordering scope of physicians.
Clinical Pharmaceutical Scientist
A clinical pharmaceutical scientist (or pharmacist-scientist) is a licensed,
practicing pharmacist who also functions as an independent researcher in
the pharmaceutical sciences. Clinical pharmaceutical scientists are a type of
clinician scientist, analogous to physician-scientists.
The term clinical pharmaceutical scientist is distinct from the term
pharmaceutical scientist, in that a clinical pharmaceutical scientist is a
practicing clinical pharmacist involved in science relating to the discovery
and/or development of pharmaceuticals, the development of new
knowledge improving the use of pharmaceuticals in clinical practice, or any
other subfield of pharmaceutical science

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