what is a physician?
A physician or medical doctor or just doctor is a professional who practices 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.
Academic medicine redirects here. For the journal, see Academic Medicine (journal). Medicine (British English /ËmÉdsáµ»n/; American English /ËmÉdáµ»sáµ»n/) is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The word medicine is derived from Latin medicus, meaning a physician.