healthcare practitioner

English

Noun

healthcare practitioner (plural healthcare practitioners)

1. Any licensed or certified worker who provides health care, whether a physician, nurse, dentist, or allied health practitioner.

   Synonym: health care professional

   Hypernyms: practitioner; professional

   Hyponyms: medical practitioner, physician, surgeon; nurse

   • 2020 October 1, Sara Rosenthal, ““How Many Dead Hemophiliacs Do You Need?” And the Band Played on (1993)”, in Healthcare Ethics on Film. A Guide for Medical Educators, Berlin: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73:

     The early and shameful history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, and the decimation of the U.S. gay population throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, is not well known to the majority of healthcare practitioners who were licensed in the twenty-first century.