clinician

noun

Definition of cliniciannext
as in physician
a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher

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Recent Examples of clinician According to the organization, their licensed clinicians participate in professional development activities intended to maintain clinical practice standards across the organization. — Wyles Daniel, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026 Wearable solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly into daily life, collecting data passively and allowing it to be shared with clinicians, partners, or support networks when needed. — Matt Emma, USA Today, 14 July 2026 But the alternative is to leave frontline clinicians improvising when authenticity is in doubt. — Henry Bair, STAT, 14 July 2026 The United States already has a fragmented health system, in which insurers, clinicians, and drugmakers are largely left on their own to hash out the cost of each medication or service. — Renuka Rayasam, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for clinician
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  1. physician
  2. doctor
  3. attending
  4. hospitalist
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  • But if intelligent systems can monitor patients between visits—flagging problems early and escalating to a human when judgment is required—the physician’s role shifts from gatekeeper to escalation point.
    — Srini Attili, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • The students training at the Schmidt College of Medicine today are the physicians who will practice in Palm Beach County tomorrow.
    — Lewis S. Nelson, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
Definition of physician
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  • Then the 1815 Apothecaries’ Act in Britain required doctors to learn botany, and the demand for lectures surged, among both students and interested outsiders.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 16 July 2026
  • Jackson and its Miami Transplant Institute, for example, use doctors from the University of Miami Health System.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Definition of doctor
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  • Then, on Sunday, Syria convened an unannounced but highly anticipated opening of the first post-revolution Parliament, with President Ahmed al-Sharaa attending.
    — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2026
  • The watch party near the Garden has become a major event all through the playoffs, but with Trump attending, that event was moved a few blocks away outside the security perimeter, at Bryant Park.
    — Stephen Whyno, Fortune, 9 June 2026
Definition of attending
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  • Ascension stated that telehealth complements in-person care and that protocols are in place for emergencies, utilizing on-site hospitalists and other staff.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 6 May 2026
  • Deleon is associate chief medical officer and a pediatric hospitalist at Oklahoma Children’s OU Health where there’s been a steady influx of children admitted for rotavirus over the last two months.
    — Lauren Dunn, NBC news, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of hospitalist

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“Clinician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clinician. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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