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
Peter C. Doherty immunologist
Dr. Simon Jordan
Jules Hoffmann immunologist
Gro
surface form: Gro Harlem Brundtland
Edward Jenner
Ewing
surface form: James Ewing
pathologist
John Warren surgeon
Brock Chisholm psychiatrist
Maimonides
John Bodkin Adams
Hieronymus Fabricius surgeon
Dr. Pedro Domingo Curutchet
surface form: Pedro Domingo Curutchet
surgeon
James Jackson
Samuel Fuller
Arne Olav Brundtland
Norman E. Thagard
John Evans
Imhotep
Lejzer
surface form: L. L. Zamenhof
ophthalmologist
John Jeremiah Bigsby
Alois Alzheimer psychiatrist
Dr. John Brown
Mary Corinna Putnam
Camilla Stoltenberg
Adam Zamenhof ophthalmologist
John Clarke
Ossian Sweet
Zofia Zamenhof
Dr. Leo Marvin in What About Bob?
surface form: Dr. Leo Marvin
psychiatrist
Tess Gerritsen
Withering
surface form: William Withering
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Samar
surface form: Sima Samar
Ludwig Guttmann neurologist
Hayley Wickenheiser
Esther Israeli Kahn
David Hartley
Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
Dr. Seth Porter Ford
surface form: Seth Porter Ford
Dr. King Schultz dentist
Anjali Tendulkar pediatrician
Stephen Ward osteopath
Luigi Galvani
Sadiqa Kendi
Gloria Rudisch pediatrician
Sir Hans Sloane
George Miller
Ernst Boas
Charles Krauthammer
Nathan Smith Davis