From "doctor" to physician

Doctor Augustine, physician to Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII.

I. THE WOLSEY YEARS It is odd that Augustine de Augustinis, M.D., native of Venice but denizen of England for more than twenty years, has not drawn more attention from Tudor historians. Until the publication in 1960 of the first volume of the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome, 1960), which includes Mario Rosa's sketch, only meagre biographical details had appeared in print. And yet Aug...

The story of 'doctor,' 'physician,' and 'surgeon'.

In ancient Greece there was a group of philosophers called Physikos. They were noted for gaining their knowledge of nature from thinking rather than studying it first hand. From these thoughts they taught biology and medicine, and were called doctors ("to teach "); their students, "physicus", or physician. Physicians who worked with their hands were called "surgeons." Being well versed in the t...

"I hate my doctor": reputation, defamation, and physician-review websites.

Doctor fails: early warning signs of physician fatigue?

1Program for Clinical Research, Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143 0808, USA; 2UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 3Physician Moms Group; 4Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford Medicine, CA, USA; 5Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergen...

[From family doctor to medical centre].

could last several days (1). People did not take it for granted that the doctor would invariably be able to come. A hundred years ago, general practitioners still spent a large part of their working day on the road, even though telephones and cars rapidly helped free up more time for patients (1). My grandfather, Abraham Randinius Aasland (1879 – 1942), who was a general practitioner in Skien i...