Definition
Individuals who diagnose illnesses and prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from injury or disease. Physicians examine patients; obtain medical histories; order, perform and interpret diagnostic tests; and counsel patients on diet, hygiene and preventive health care. Surgeons are physicians who specialize in the treatment of injury, disease and deformity through operations. Using a variety of instruments, and with patients under general or local anesthesia, a surgeon corrects physical deformities, repairs bone and tissue after injuries or performs preventive surgeries on patients with debilitating diseases or disorders. Physicians work in one or more specialties including anesthesiology, family and community medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, allergy, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, radiology and surgery.
URL Name
YO-3000-6600
Third Level Code
YO-3000
Taxonomy Code
YO-3000.6600
Parent Code
YO-3000
Family Code
Y
Second Level Code
YO
Fourth Level Code
YO-3000-6600
Use References
Internal Medicine Specialists, Liver Disease Specialists, Nephrologists, Neurologists, Nuclear Medicine Practitioners, Obstetricians, Obstetrics and Gynecology Practitioners, Oncologists, Otolaryngologists, Pediatricians, Radiologists, Rheumatologists, Urologists, Allergists, Allergy Specialists, Anesthesiologists, Cardiologists, Dermatologists, Doctors, Endocrinologists, Family and Community Medicine Specialists, Gastroenterologists, General Practitioners, Geriatricians, Gynecologists, Heart Specialists, Hematologists, Infectious Disease Specialists
Publication Status
Online