physician

C710
concept

A physician is a trained and licensed medical professional who diagnoses, treats, and helps prevent illness and injury in patients through clinical evaluation, medical interventions, and ongoing care.

All labels observed (82)

Label Occurrences
physician canonical 1,143
surgeon 131
psychiatrist 127

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: physician
Generated description
A physician is a trained and licensed medical professional who diagnoses, treats, and helps prevent illness and injury in patients through clinical evaluation, medical interventions, and ongoing care.

Instances (1,688)

Instance Via concept surface
Dr. Eric Foreman neurologist
Fraenkel
surface form: Erich Fraenkel
Hugh Mercer
George Busk surgeon
Edith Farnsworth
Jaspers
surface form: Karl Jaspers
psychiatrist
William Worrall Mayo
Ronald Ross
Surgeon-General Sir Benjamin Franklin
Uncle Alec Campbell
François Olivennes obstetrician
Leonard Rogers
Richard Bright
Jennifer Brokaw
John Thomson (physician)
Arvo Ylppö pediatrician
Jim McDermott psychiatrist
Salisbury Medical Practice primary care provider
Bernard Kouchner
Crile
surface form: George Washington Crile
surgeon
Paul Hermann
Gorgas
surface form: William C. Gorgas
Major Walter Reed
surface form: Walter Reed
Peter Medawar immunologist
Rodney Porter immunologist
John Skehel immunologist
Walter Bodmer immunologist
Michael L. Riordan
Martin Raff immunologist
Dmitry Ulyanov
Patrick Manson
Sally Davies
Mabel Bianco
Peter Piot
Martin McKee
Robert Merivel
Apgar
surface form: Virginia Apgar
Sparrman
surface form: Anders Sparrman
Grayshott Surgery primary care provider
Mogens Fog
Guy de Chauliac
Harry
surface form: Harry M. Wegeforth
Wegeforth
surface form: Harry M. Wegeforth
Eric Heiden orthopedic surgeon
Avrion Mitchison immunologist
Jacques Brotchi neurosurgeon
Alexander Keith Marshall
Jan Mikulicz-Radecki surgeon
Dr. Barry O’Meara
surface form: Barry O’Meara
surgeon
Margaret Chung