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What is a health care professional?
The delivery of modern health care depends on an expanding group of highly trained professionals coming together as an interdisciplanary team. Individuals are called health professionals if thay participate
in delivery of medical care in some way. Thus, it is a rather broad term.
Examples of members of the health professions
Medical doctors have
specializations on the medicine page. Dentistry and psychology, while separate
disciplines from medicine, are often considered medical fields in the wider definition of the term. Practitioners such as
physician assistants, nurse practitioners and
midwives also treat patients and prescribe medication in many legal
jurisdictions.
Health profession means a profession in which a person exercises skill or judgment or provides a service related to:
(a) the preservation or improvement of the health of individuals, or
(b) the treatment or care of individuals who are injured, sick, disabled or infirm.
The foundation sciences underpinning human medicine overlap veterinary medicine.
See also : alternative medicine, bioengineers, Chinese
medicine, dentist - Dentistry ,
laboratory
scientists, medicine, nurse, nutrition, nutritionists, occupational therapy, occupational therapists, paramedic, pharmacist, pharmacists, physician, physiotherapists,
sanitary professions speech therapists, veterinarian
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