Practitioners

The meaning of this practice was obfuscated by centuries of the practitioners' subjective interpretations.

Fauci stressed the need to practice social distancing in order to lower rates of spread and allow health practitioners to gain control of the situation.

The barber surgeon was one of the most common medical practitioners of medieval Europe.

Nurse practitioners are lobbying to be allowed to fill in the physician gap and practice without supervision, but doctors are trying to stop them.

Nurse practitioners undergo less education than physicians, but are still capable of diagnosing, giving prescriptions and admitting patients to hospitals.

Nurse practitioners are often the primary care provider of choice, since they're usually more accessible than a physician.

Sufism is the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. Practitioners are called ṣūfī. Scholars judge that Sufism cannot be learnt from books, but rather can be learnt as a disciple of a qualified teacher.

On any given day, the doctors and nurses at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center here in Houston deal with patients from as far away as Turkey, Taiwan or Brazil. It is vitally important that the medical practitioners know every detail about their condition, their symptoms and their background.

The cutting is normally performed by traditional practitioners using crude scissors, knives or even razor blades, often without anesthetics, leaving scars and long-term medical problems.

Lance Mitchell is an interesting character. He's a hair colorist by trade, who lives with his wife in a fairly typical suburban apartment complex just outside Washington, D.C. He has tattoos on both arms and rings in both ears. He enjoys bicycling, and exploring caves, and says he was raised by Druids, practitioners of an ancient Celtic religion that emphasizes the connection between humans and other animals. That upbringing is one of the reasons Lance Mitchell feels so passionately about his snakes, one-meter and three-meter-long pythons, Georgie and Bert, and his two-meter-long boa constrictor, Medusa.