Dr. Ambrose, 32, was a physician and adviser to the office of the surgeon general.
The doctor's self-possession endears him to the dictator, who quickly demands that Nick become his private physician and adviser.
Avempace's later contemporary, Ibn Ṭufayl, court physician and adviser of the Almohad ruler Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, offered a more-developed Neoplatonism in his philosophical novel, Ḥayy ibn Yaqzān ("Alive son of Awake").
During a roadside crisis involving General Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker), Garrigan impresses the new president with a brazen act and is hand-picked to become Amin's personal physician and adviser.
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.
Change arrives in the charismatic form of the German doctor Johann Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), a Rousseau-quoting freethinker who becomes the king's personal physician and trusted adviser as well as the unhappy queen's lover.
Ibn Ṭufayl also wrote a number of medical treatises in Arabic and served as the court physician and general adviser to the Almohad ruler Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf from 1163 to 1184.
Dr. Jennifer Wider, a Connecticut-based physician and medical adviser for the Society for Women's Health Research, recommends carrying a few allergy pills, as well as acetaminophen, ibuprofen and a few antacids, just in case.
"The doctors weren't minimizing pain, they were helping calibrate pain," said Scott Allen, a Rhode Island doctor and adviser to the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights.
"The level and type of force used by Turkish authorities against peaceful protesters during the Gezi Park demonstrations, as well as the targeting of doctors who courageously treated them, was unnecessary and inexcusable," Dr. Vincent Iacopino, the senior medical adviser to Physicians for Human Rights and the report's co-author, said in a statement.
Rodney Sterling Wyman, U.S. Naval Militia, is acting as personal adviser and physician to the princess [as well as her interpreter].
