Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans

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Doctors know many things about health and the human body By examining patients and prescribing medicine, doctors can find out what is making someone sick and ho

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Pa

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