Accurate diagnosis is the foundation for clinical documentation, communication with other healthcare practitioners, and serves as a basis for initiating evidence-based mental health treatment.
According to the opposition's critics, the biological reductionism of the opposition, and the failure to appreciate the practice's cultural context, undermines the practitioners' agency and serves to "other" them – in particular by calling African parents mutilators.
Neilson attended Washington State University, and served as a Visiting Practitioner at the Georgetown University Center for Public and Non-profit Leadership.
She was a single mother who put herself through college and graduate school, and served as a nurse practitioner while raising her two daughters.
He was one of the original leaders of NewYork-Presbyterian's Society of Practitioners and served on several important hospital committees.
I am a midwife and family nurse practitioner, and I serve on the advisory board of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride.
Many Buddhist priests belonging to esoteric traditions regularly spent some time in mountain retreats developing yamabushi techniques, and Shugen-dō practitioners often served as priests of Shintō shrines.
7 General practitioners (GPs) are freely accessible and serve as gatekeepers to the rest of the healthcare system.
A psychiatric social worker, member of the School's faculty, field work instructor and private practitioner, she served also as a chief social worker at Presbyterian Hospital and taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Drug use, often recorded from general practitioners' letters, served as an indicator of active disease.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/2/prepub We thank the general practitioners who served as local investigators, without whom this study would not have been possible.
