Sentence examples for academic physicians from inspiring English sources

Pharmaceutical companies developed the drugs, but they contracted with academic physicians to carry out the clinical testing.

Academia and Business Mix In their quest to use research to sway the hearts and minds of busy doctors, the drug companies have important partners: academic physicians.

Under his direction, the department became a nationally respected center for comprehensive Ob/Gyn care, training generations of practicing and academic physicians.

Even some salaried academic physicians like Dr. Douglas A. Drossman, who runs a respected clinic where patients are treated regardless of ability to pay, often have to scramble for grants from foundations and industry to support their work with patients.

I have felt, for example, that some academic physicians on the surface embrace the concept of applying social sciences to medicine, but are unable to accept non-positivist ways of understanding the world and dismiss it as insufficiently rigorous.

The dinners promoting a new definition of high blood pressure illustrate connections — among the pharmaceutical industry, academic physicians and societies that formulate opinion — that can ultimately affect patient treatment.

However I have also turned this down as I have already made my choice to pursue a career as an academic physician.

"It almost calls into question all legitimate research that's been conducted by the pharmaceutical industry with the academic physician," said Dr. Ross, whose article, written with colleagues, was published Wednesday in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association.

The others, by an academic physician and several scientists, will be published this summer in The Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication focusing on diseases that pose particular risks to women.

Teachers answer to parents and bankers solicit borrowers, but in medicine, a chain of command has existed since the profession found its modern face -- doctor's orders -- with the most senior and academic physician experts directing the decisions of specialists, family physicians and ultimately the patients.

Dealing with a student who is perceived as difficult to work with or teach is inevitable in any academic physician's career.