clinician
noun
cli·ni·cian
kli-ˈni-shən 
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While health systems may take time to catch up, individuals—and forward-thinking clinicians—can start applying the science of mitochondria and mental health.
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Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Patients will receive an assessment from a licensed clinician within 30 minutes after arriving.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2025
Rippon, professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre in Birmingham, England, investigates how and why scientists and clinicians have systematically underestimated and overlooked autism in women and girls.
—Matt Villano, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
In recent years, the CDC has almost exclusively been led by physicians, clinicians whose primary training, instincts, and oath revolve around caring for individual patients.
—Michael Mina, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
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Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Patients will receive an assessment from a licensed clinician within 30 minutes after arriving.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2025
Rippon, professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre in Birmingham, England, investigates how and why scientists and clinicians have systematically underestimated and overlooked autism in women and girls.
—Matt Villano, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
In recent years, the CDC has almost exclusively been led by physicians, clinicians whose primary training, instincts, and oath revolve around caring for individual patients.
—Michael Mina, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Clinician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clinician. Accessed 10 Apr. 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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