The physician can download and review the recorded events during an office visit using a special programmer, which looks similar to a laptop computer.

The suit asserts that the defendants abused the peer review system by which physicians on hospital committees review the quality of medical care administered by colleagues.

In both cases, the accusing physicians relied on assumptions about what caused the head trauma rather than review the medical literature documenting cases of serious brain injuries from trivial trauma.

Independent medical review is the process where physicians review medical cases in order to provide claims determinations for health insurance payers, workers compensation insurance payers or disability insurance payers.

Employment-related test results are relayed to an MRO (Medical Review Office) where a medical physician reviews the results.

Mr. Nunn said physicians chosen by the committee had reviewed Mr. Cheney's medical records.

First, your physician will review your medical history.

At that time, she "was one of only seven full-time and four young part-time physicians reviewing drugs" for the FDA.

But critics wonder whether physicians should be publicly reviewing physicians, and whether the A.M.A. and its state affiliates should be reviewing their own members.

A wide variety of abnormal findings may occur, and the physician will review them following the exam.