healthcare practitioner

plural healthcare practitioners

1. Any licensed or certified worker who provides health care, whether a physician, nurse, dentist, or allied health practitioner.

   The early and shameful history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, and the decimation of the U.S. gay population throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, is not well known to the majority of healthcare practitioners who were licensed in the twenty-first century.

   2020 October 1, Sara Rosenthal, ““How Many Dead Hemophiliacs Do You Need?” And the Band Played on (1993)”, in Healthcare Ethics on Film. A Guide for Medical Educators, Berlin: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73

   Synonyms: health care professional