practice of medicine Meaning of "practice of medicine"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries

Usage(s):

  1. There's always been reason to worry about the influence of Big Pharma on the practice of medicine.
  2. Einstein expects that the new study's findings will have several implications in the everyday practice of medicine.
  3. Whatever the reason, the result is a bias against negative or inconclusive data that distorts the medical literature and ultimately the practice of medicine.
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