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Physicians are licensed health care professionals who practice the art of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental illnesses.

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Physicians

Paul Farmer

People; Physicians

Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician. He is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of ...

Jakob I. Bernoulli

People; Physicians

Jacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He lived 1654 - 1705. Jacob Bernoulli was born in Switzerland. Jacob Bernoulli is best known for the work Ars ...

Jim Yong Kim

People; Economists

Jim Yong Kim (born December 8, 1959) is a Korean-American physician by trade and a prominent figure in global health and development circles. He was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global ...

Jim Yong Kim

People; Physicians

Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong (born December 8, 1959), is a Korean-American physician and anthropologist who has been the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1 2012. He was ...

David Copperfield

People; Physicians

Copperfield was born in New Jersey on September 16, 1956. He started as a ventriloquist and then quickly took to magic. Copperfield became the youngest magician admitted to the Society of American ...

Doug Henning

People; Physicians

In the 1970s and 80s, Doug Henning was not only the best known magician in the world, he is often credited as reviving magic as a popular theatrical art form. Sadly, he left magic at the height of ...

Siegfried & Roy

People; Physicians

Siegfried & Roy, famous for their stunning large scale illusions and big cats, once ruled Las Vegas as its most successful act. In their more than three decades in Las Vegas, the pair performed ...

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