noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
family practitioner
general practitioner
medical practitioner
nurse practitioner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
experienced
▪ Sometimes experienced practitioners do not read the conditions sufficiently carefully, and assume that they are simply a standard proforma.
▪ This would involve several periods of working in the field alongside experienced practitioners.
▪ Ideally an assessment by an experienced practitioner should be sought for this but these two remedies are worth trying.
▪ Some one who has much chronic ill health should not be treated except by an experienced practitioner.
▪ Training is given by experienced practitioners, many of whom have been through the programme.
general
▪ How do fundholders and non-fundholding general practitioners differ?
▪ These are sent to patients with a request to take them along to their general practitioner within 10 days.
▪ The importance of collaborating with the patient's general practitioner is emphasized.
▪ These changes have not been quantified - will they require more or fewer general practitioners?
▪ The plan was discussed with Pamela's general practitioner, who was in full agreement.
▪ The General Practitioner Board was set up to represent the interests of general practitioners.
▪ The relationship between general practitioners and district health authorities needs to be explicitly recognised as one of mutual dependence rather than competition.
▪ The Society intends to develop a two-tiered panel, involving general and practitioner membership.
individual
▪ The onus of care falls on individual practitioners, both medical and non-medical.
▪ Taken together, all these requirements constitute a set of minimum professional standards by which individual practitioners can be assessed and judged.
▪ We must also examine critically the notion that individual practitioners enjoy an autonomy which is somehow derived from that of the collectivity.
▪ International co-operation between clearinghouses Clearinghouses were set up primarily to overcome the isolation of individual practitioners within their own national boundaries.
▪ They can not account for the artistry of the individual practitioner.
legal
▪ Our negotiating team includes experienced legal aid family practitioners and officials.
▪ It is envisaged that the legal practitioner will first be instructed once the client believes he has struck a deal.
local
▪ All the necessary investigative and follow-up actions were taken and as soon as the problem was known local general practitioners were informed.
▪ Postal questionnaires were then used to seek the views of local general practitioners and the child psychiatrists working in the Northern region.
medical
▪ If the physical lighting is acceptable, and the eye-strain persists, consult your medical practitioner or an ophthalmic optician.
▪ But cancer survivors, medical practitioners and attorneys agree that discrimination against workers with illnesses exists in the workplace.
▪ Regular certification will be required from the claimant's medical practitioner to enable benefit payments to be made.
▪ From a medical practitioner familiar with the dementia sufferer.
▪ All three occupants suffered multiple injuries and were certified dead at the crash site by a medical practitioner.
▪ Dental surgeons do not even have the cheap finance available to general medical practitioners.
▪ His proposals for reform of the education and organization of all medical practitioners had much merit.
▪ The influence of broader legislative and structural developments on medical practitioners in the three towns is also examined.
private
▪ There was considerable support for the latter suggestion from private practitioners in all types of firm and from local law societies.
▪ They can and do, of course, also make use of the National Health Service, and some also use private practitioners.
▪ Even in the university centres, perhaps only 50 percent of cases are notified, while reporting from private practitioners is non-existent.
qualified
▪ The notion of town planning and its profession of technically qualified practitioners inevitably stood to be beneficiaries in this context.
▪ Subjects were screened by a fully qualified medical practitioner.
▪ Do seek the guidance of a qualified and accredited practitioner - holistic or orthodox.
▪ It was founded to enable the public to identify qualified medical practitioners.
▪ The medical superintendent of a hospital had to be a duly qualified medical practitioner of five years' standing.
▪ No person can be appointed as trustee unless he is a qualified insolvency practitioner.
sole
▪ Over 60% agreed and around a third disagreed with this suggestion, over 75% of the former being sole practitioners.
▪ The sole practitioners audited three companies with a full listing, and one company quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market.
▪ The sole practitioner faces some special problems in financial management.
▪ It is clear that two main concerns animated sole practitioners themselves on this subject.
▪ Comment 59% of respondents disagreed with this proposal, 82% of whom were sole practitioners.
▪ In contrast, medium-sized firms in particular thought the requirement should be aimed specifically at sole practitioners and firms in breach.
■ NOUN
care
▪ All males with cystitis should seek the advice of their health care practitioner, particularly if it is recurrent.
▪ The first step to identifying and treating diabetes is to visit a health care practitioner.
family
▪ Trusted family practitioner found guilty of 15 murders may have killed dozens more: How many patients did doctor kill?
▪ If they want any patients, they must grovel before the family practitioners they previously lorded over.
▪ Patients referred from family practitioners are likely to be younger and might well have a different incidence of disease causing anaemia.
▪ However, health authorities and family practitioner authorities are keen on the idea of generic teams delivering patch-based care.
▪ Even less is known about the assessment of efficiency in family practitioner services.
▪ Our negotiating team includes experienced legal aid family practitioners and officials.
▪ The alternative term of family practitioner is not acceptable either.
▪ I am certainly a general practitioner, but I am not a family practitioner.
health
▪ This is the province of an individual's general medical or occupational health practitioner, not of an epidemiologist.
▪ Thus the recognition of values helps health practitioners establish priorities and hierarchies of importance among needs and goals.
▪ All animal bites should be examined by your health practitioner.
insolvency
▪ On 21 February 1990 the Ledingham-Smiths consulted an insolvency practitioner and the accountants ceased to act for them.
▪ Thus administrative receivers must be qualified to act as insolvency practitioners and can only be removed from office by the court.
▪ If an insolvency practitioner is to be appointed, his consent to act must be referred to in the affidavit.
▪ The haulier should look for an insolvency practitioner able to give up-to-date and detailed advice in accordance with the new law.
▪ Specialist work Solicitors wishing to work as insolvency practitioners require to be licensed by the Law Society individually.
▪ In that capacity he would be acting as an insolvency practitioner and must be qualified so to act.
▪ The section extends to insolvency practitioners and directors and managers.
▪ No person can be appointed as trustee unless he is a qualified insolvency practitioner.
nurse
▪ Visions of the nurse practitioner of the future are ambitious and exciting.
▪ We now have a new healthcare worker -- a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
▪ Opportunities for the development of clinical and managerial skills, with a clearer role for the specialist nurse practitioner and adviser.
▪ Thompson is an obstetrics-gynecology nurse practitioner at Central Texas Planned Parenthood.
service
▪ Audit of general practitioner services is generally regarded as desirable, but funding is scarce.
▪ Patients are reimbursed for 85% of the schedule fee for each item of general practitioner service and for specialist consultations outside hospitals.
▪ Even less is known about the assessment of efficiency in family practitioner services.
■ VERB
consult
▪ If the physical lighting is acceptable, and the eye-strain persists, consult your medical practitioner or an ophthalmic optician.
▪ On 21 February 1990 the Ledingham-Smiths consulted an insolvency practitioner and the accountants ceased to act for them.
▪ It is always important to consult a practitioner who has qualifications recognized by your doctor.
provide
▪ Existing theory in this area provides limited guidance for practitioners as it is based on the management of single innovations.
require
▪ So a degree of scepticism is required from practitioners towards their own forms of thought, with their associated practices and values.
▪ And that requires practitioners who value aggression, salty talk, an obnoxious demeanor, and rude behavior.
▪ The research has required close collaboration with practitioners in the field.
▪ Knowing which kind of support to offer requires the practitioner to use deep empathy based on affirmative assessment.
▪ The model requires that general practitioners and managers develop new skills particularly in contracting.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Christian Science practitioner
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ General practitioners in Berkshire claimed 31.5 night visits per 1000 population in 1992.
▪ If after two days, it's still the same - go to see a practitioner.
▪ In 1967, Phil Boardman was an early practitioner of this dangerous specialty.
▪ Its practitioners have now started to explore the legal hornet's nest likely to be stirred up by in vitro fertilisation.
▪ So that old kungfu contradiction appears yet again: by doubling his striking power the practitioner makes himself twice as vulnerable.