However, it may be difficult to get physicians to deliver these alcohol-focused interventions for a variety of practical, philosophical, orientation, and training reasons.

Then the physician delivered the other news.

Nurses are frequently left to pick up the pieces after physicians have delivered bad news or explained information about an illness.

As he smoked, the physician delivered a contemptuous snort that ended in a chuckle.

This allows physicians to deliver high doses of radiation even when tumors are close to sensitive organs and tissue.

In contrast, physicians or nurses in a variety of primary care settings have delivered brief alcohol-focused interventions.

When a physician delivers anesthesia, it is the practice of medicine.

Many male physicians would deliver children but very few would have referred to themselves as obstetricians.

"It used to be that the physicians deliver the information, the patient accepts it, and that is that," she said.

Forming themselves into a jury, the physicians conferred, and delivered a unanimous verdict.