Police vs. Doctor — What's the Difference?

A body of persons with a similar organization and function

A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.

(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.

Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.

The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.

A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.

A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.

A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.

(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds

A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.

The cleaning of a military base or other military area

(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.

The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.

Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.

To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.

Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.

To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way

A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.

To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner

(Informal) To give medical treatment to

To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance

To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.

A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly

To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself

A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.

To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of

(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.

To alter or modify for a specific end

Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.

(Baseball) To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement

The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.

To practice medicine.

People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.

A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.

Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.

A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.

(obsolete) policy.

A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.

(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).

(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.

To clean up an area.

A fish, the friar skate.

To enforce norms or standards upon.

A ship's cook.

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

To act as a medical doctor.

That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.

The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.

(transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

To keep in order by police.

(transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).

To make clean; as, to police a camp.

To take medicine.

The force of policemen and officers;

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

Maintain the security of by carrying out a control

An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

The friar skate.

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

To practice physic.

A licensed medical practitioner;

(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching;

Children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor's office;

A person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution;

Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;

Give medical treatment to

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;