practice of medicine
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- noun
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práctica médica
- The practice of medicine requires both scientific knowledge and compassionate patient care.
But there's such a, a wide gap between that understanding and the practice of medicine or how we treat people.
- But there's such a, a wide gap between that understanding and the practice of medicine or how we treat people.
- I've been interested in genetics and its fallout into the practice of medicine for many, many years.
Examples
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As you all know, the practice of medicine and the business of medicine have been undergoing very big changes in this country.
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Science has had a vast impact on the practice of medicine.
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The ideal of the practice of medicine is always the same.
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More particularly, it is the basis for the clinical practice of medicine.
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The practice of medicine must be understood within the context of the period.
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Today, a new wave of imaging technologies is again transforming the practice of medicine.
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Our ultimate goal is the practice of medicine in its purest and most complete form.
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I note an increase in antiscience awareness and its negative impact on the practice of medicine.
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Physicians in the United States are licensed by individual states, pursuant to very broad and general definitions of the practice of medicine.
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The practice of medicine was profoundly altered after the Enlightenment by the findings of science.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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The science and practice of finding and treating illnesses
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A business where a doctor or lawyer works and sees clients
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A group of trained people like doctors and nurses who are licensed to treat sick people
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The work doctors do to care for patients
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase 'practice of medicine' is transparently composed: 'practice' (professional work) + 'medicine' (the medical field) directly yields the meaning of professionally applying medical knowledge. This is a standard, compositional English construction found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Practice of medicine comes from the idea of practice as regular 'doing' and medicine as the work of healing. Think of a doctor who repeats treatments and learns from each patient, and that is why practice of medicine means the professional work and skill of doctors.