geriatrician

A geriatrician will try to find an answer to the problem.

Geriatricians have special expertise in taking care of older people.

A. A geriatrician is like a pediatrician, but at the other end of life.

A lot of medical students will go through their entire training and never meet a board certified geriatrician.

I am a consultant geriatrician with a particular interest in dementia.

The older age groups are, by definition, the main clients of the geriatricians.

Some experts say there are simply not enough academic geriatricians to teach such skills.

Just as a child would see a pediatrician for medical care, an older patient should go to a geriatrician.

Geriatricians are not the only health-care specialists in short supply.

Together, they graduate only about 100 geriatricians a year.

We've only been producing geriatricians for about 20 years.

As a geriatrician, I spend far more time with each patient, both examining them and answering questions.

Her father retired as an internist and geriatrician in Philadelphia.

Then a geriatrician suggested that she be moved to a four-bed room.

It brings to mind a story that every geriatrician loves to cite.

With no geriatrician aboard, I could be dead of bodily failure earlier than that.

But we must also train geriatricians of the future to be leaders of health care systems.

A. It certainly is a topic that many geriatricians are actively debating right now.

Geriatricians distinguish between diseases and the effects of normal aging.

Some, like oncologists and geriatricians, lose patients all the time, yet somehow keep coming back for more.

Many geriatricians have received instructions from their patients: "Let me die in peace.

There are entire cities without a single geriatrician, including towns with a heavy concentration of older people.

Geriatricians, too, are seeing growing practices because the elderly are living longer.

Despite a rapidly growing elderly population, the number of certified geriatricians fell by a third between 1998 and 2004.

Geriatricians must respect the patients' privacy while seeing that they receive appropriate and necessary services.