Physician vs. Physiologist — What's the Difference?

A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice.

The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts.

A person trained and licensed to practice medicine; one who has a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree.

All the functions of a living organism or any of its parts.

(Archaic) A person who practices general medicine as distinct from surgery.

A person who studies or specializes in physiology.

A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.

A biologist specializing in physiology

A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

A licensed medical practitioner;