Surgicalist

Quick meaning: Surgicalist is a noun meaning (US) A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.

Meaning

(US) A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.

Example Sentences

You know, the surgicalist can take care of the appendicitis and drain simple abscesses and stuff like that.

We now have two new specialists that are growing in numbers, the hospitalist and the surgicalist. Knowing everything about hospital care but having no experience with office and outpatient care presents a new set of problems for the patient.

The two are being hired as surgicalists, a new term coined from the more common title surgical hospitalist. Both mean the same thing: doctors hired by hospitals to treat patients full time, replacing local physicians who work at the hospital on an “on-call” basis.

Word Forms

• surgicalists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include specialist, surgeon, hospitalist, superspecialist, consultant, nocturnist.

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