clinician
noun
cli·ni·cian
kli-ˈni-shən 
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His company has been providing behavioral health services online since 2013, and technology is the way to a solution because there are not enough mental health clinicians available in this country.
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025
There are no head-to-head trials comparing these therapies to help clinicians make sense of which option is the most effective in delaying progression for their patients.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 6 Feb. 2025
The role was previously held by the late Queen Elizabeth, and the King Cancer Research U.K.’s chief clinician during his emotional return to public-facing work then after his cancer diagnosis was announced in February 2024.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
At Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes, a lack of supplies and clinicians to provide on-call services to the ER forced the hospital to divert ambulances away for patient safety.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2025
There are no head-to-head trials comparing these therapies to help clinicians make sense of which option is the most effective in delaying progression for their patients.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 6 Feb. 2025
The role was previously held by the late Queen Elizabeth, and the King Cancer Research U.K.’s chief clinician during his emotional return to public-facing work then after his cancer diagnosis was announced in February 2024.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
At Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes, a lack of supplies and clinicians to provide on-call services to the ER forced the hospital to divert ambulances away for patient safety.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Clinician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clinician. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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clinician
noun
cli·ni·cian
klin-ˈish-ən
: an individual qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory
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