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. Howard Mierzwiak medical doctor
Martin Bareš neurologist
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
surface form: Mary Edwards Walker
surgeon
Fritz Fischer
de Quervain
surface form: Fritz de Quervain
Joseph Hume
Edward Glover (psychoanalyst)
surface form: Edward Glover
Zoltán Szilvássy
Robert C. Ashton Jr. cardiothoracic surgeon
William Roxburgh surgeon
Jean-François Mattei
Herman Boerhaave
Lancelot Browne
Pantaleon
Dr. Oz
surface form: Mehmet Oz
cardiothoracic surgeon
Mark Vonnegut pediatrician
Olaokun Soyinka
Johann Michael Fehr
Serveto
surface form: Michael Servetus
Alicia Moreau de Justo
Dr. Emil Skoda in Law & Order
surface form: Dr. Emil Skoda
psychiatrist
Anthony Addington
Tetsu Nakamura (physician)
John J. Kindred
Hamadani
surface form: Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī
Abu’l-Faraj Gregory
Abulpharagius
Burrill Bernard Crohn
Thomas Gann medical doctor
William C. Gorgas
Daniel Kendall anesthesiologist
Alejandro Rojas-Marcos psychiatrist
Susumu Tonegawa immunologist
Brad Cohen
John P. McGovern
William Marsden surgeon
William Marsden, founder of the Royal Free Hospital
surface form: William Marsden
surgeon
Pierre François Percy
H. Richard Hornberger surgeon
real-life surgeon John McIntyre
surface form: John McIntyre (real-life surgeon)
surgeon
Starobinski
surface form: Jean Starobinski
Lee Wei Ling neurologist
Horace Newton Allen
Doctor Spivey
Dr. Gene Tuskin psychiatrist
Jan G. J. van de Winkel immunologist
Yersin
surface form: Alexandre Yersin
Suoi Dau, near Nha Trang, Vietnam
surface form: Alexandre Yersin
Ruth McNair general practitioner