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
Padmanee Sharma oncologist
Surgery of the Rectum
surface form: Franklin H. Martin
surgeon
Dr. Walsingham
Bessie Delany dentist
Pio Valenzuela
Everard Home surgeon
Astley Paston Cooper surgeon
Luis M. Irizarry Pabón
Richard Jonas cardiac surgeon
Jeff Shiffrin
Joseph A. Walder physician-scientist
Marek Edelman cardiologist
Chow Pak-chin ophthalmologist
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
Eduard Einstein psychiatrist
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg psychiatrist
William B. Mayo
Vanessa Kerry
Karl Jaspers psychiatrist
William Shippen Sr.
Maria Montessori
Sidney Farber
Paul Brousse
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam
surface form: Jonathan Van-Tam
Sir Peter Rubin
Kocher
surface form: Emil Theodor Kocher
surgeon
Dr. Younan Nowzaradan
surface form: Younan Nowzaradan
Sandra Lee dermatologist
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
surface form: Deborah L. Birx
Friedrich Neelsen pathologist
Charles Scudder
surface form: Charles Locke Scudder
Matthew Baillie
Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi
Patrick Soon-Shiong (through ownership of Los Angeles Times)
surface form: Patrick Soon-Shiong
surgeon
Thomas Browne
Jean-Martin Charcot neurologist
Joseph Babinski neurologist
Sandra M. Swain oncologist
William Clift surgeon
Pierre Marie (neurologist)
surface form: Pierre Marie
neurologist
Lodewijk Meyer
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail ophthalmologist
Ngaka Modiri Molema medical doctor
Ida Scudder
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Al-Razi (Rhazes)
surface form: Al-Razi
Elizabeth Blackwell
John Abernethy surgeon
Stephen Smith
Lyman Hall