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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
internist
noun
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▪ The relationship of the internist, the surgeon, and the anesthesiologist is one example.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
internist

1904, American English, from internal medicine + -ist.

Wiktionary
internist

n. (context medicine English) A physician who specialises in internal medicine.

WordNet
internist

n. a specialist in internal medicine

Usage examples of "internist".

Even my internist and ophthalmologist divorced their wives to marry their receptionists.

Under his watchful eye, a team of internists and pulmonologists cured me of ulcers and pneumonia.

Calling each woman in turn, Marissa learned what she intuitively suspected: both women confirmed that their internists had talked about their taking isoniazid.

In the medical practice he had joined as a newly qualified internist eleven years earlier-the year before he and Celia met and were married-Andrew was now senior partner.

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We have two good internists and most of the general practitioners are competent.

But as David Hillis, an interventional cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, explained to the New York Times, a doctor may have the same economic incentives as a car salesman or a funeral director or a mutual fund manager: “If you’re an invasive cardiologist and Joe Smith, the local internist, is sending you patients, and if you tell them they don’t need the procedure, pretty soon Joe Smith doesn’t send patients anymore.

But as David Hillis, an interventional cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, explained to the New York Times, a doctor may have the same economic incentives as a car salesman or a funeral director or a mutual fund manager: "If you're an invasive cardiologist and Joe Smith, the local internist, is sending you patients, and if you tell them they don't need the procedure, pretty soon Joe Smith doesn't send patients anymore.

Kari, a first-rate specialist in pediatric medicine, was four inches taller than Ken's five-feet-seven, reed-thin where he was slightly pudgy, but she was as quick to laugh as the internist.