WordNet
n. the body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine [syn: medical community]
Usage examples of "medical profession".
Epidemiology was the medical profession's version of accounting, and as that dull profession was vital to running a business, so the study of diseases and how they spread was actually the mother of modern medicine, when in the 1830s a French physician had determined that people who became ill died or recovered at the same rate whether they were treated or not.
Hinkle has worked for years to sensitize the medical profession to the importance of environmental factors in medicine.
What could he bring back to New York that not only would convince Jennifer not to have an abortion, but would cause the medical profession to put MTIC out of business?
In fact he said that he did not see why a woman should not enter the medical profession if she felt a call to it.
He had good medical and anatomical reasons for thinking you were lying and, because most people trust the members of the medical profession, your parents believed him rather than their, well, imaginative four-year-old son.
Pin is identified as a caduceus, a symbol of the medical profession.