The phrase "a former physician" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who used to practice medicine but is no longer doing so.
Example: "After years of dedication to his patients, he decided to retire and become a consultant as a former physician."
Alternatives: "an ex-physician" or "a past physician".
Mr. Ahn, a former physician and university dean, recently became a political star.
Jean Miotte, a painter from Hamburg, Germany, and his wife, Dorothea Keeser, a former physician, think so.
A former physician who admitted molesting patients in his Wenonah office has been sentenced to four years' probation.
A FORMER physician with a scholarly manner, Ibrahim al-Jaafari is not the kind of leader Iraqis are used to.
The shuffle is part of a carefully laid-out script to pass leadership to Dr. Assad, a former physician, and to ensure that the transition is smooth.
A former physician, she found it plausible that something with such profound health consequences as time of day might also have a moral dimension.
"It wasn't the style to be specific," Dr. David Golde, a former physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said of his medical training, which began in 1962.
Last week in an opinion piece in The New York Times, Representative Andy Harris (R MD), a former physician-researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, offered a radical solution to this graying of U.S. biomedical science: Congress should order NIH to bring down the median age at which new investigators receive their first grant by 4 years within a decade.
John Stephens, a friend and former physician turned financial adviser, likes to joke that if doctors wrote prescriptions like most people made investment decisions, we'd all be dead.
Its origin traces back 13 years when early stage Alzheimer's was diagnosed in a former Northwestern physician by Dr. Marsel Mesulam, director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Feinberg.
PAGE B1 ACCUSED DOCTOR TAKES LEAVE Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, a former Army physician accused of falsifying research involving injured soldiers, has taken a leave of absence from the Washington University School of Medicine in St . Louisand its affiliated hospitals.
