internist

[ in-tur-nist, in-tur-nist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a physician specializing in the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, especially of adults.

internist

/ ɪnˈtɜːnɪst; ˈɪntɜːnɪst /

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; intern(al medicine) + -ist

The same would be true of his dentist, his eye doctor, and his internist.

My wife and I had only in the last couple of months found an internist whom we liked and who took Oxford.

My wife is an internist who works for a company that keeps records on an EMR.

Before I switched to this work I was an internist for a large HMO, entering my notes into an EMR.

Internist Kent Sepkowitz on the truth about love lives in lab coats.

The interest taken in psychiatry by the general practitioner and by the consulting internist has been growing rapidly of late.

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