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All physicians are diagnosticians to some extent. In many of the definitions, you'll see they also refer to pathologists.

There is a new and emerging field of diagnotic medicine where some physicians specialize in rare diseases with likewise unusual presentations. The patients are ususally refered by a primary care physician or other specialist who found they could not acuately diagnose the patient.

The best example, probably, would be the US television show "House, MD" about a cantakerous doctor who manages to diagnose diseases you would have a hard time looking up in a textbook.

2007-03-08 13:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by tickdhero 4 · 1 0

The closest thing in real medical practice is general internal medicine. The "diagnostician" tag seems popular in literature, but it's internists who do the job, though these days they often need a bevy of subspecialists for all the technical procedures that have become available. The group of doctors on "House" would in real life be dozens of different specialists and subspecialists, but that wouldn't make for good TV.

2007-03-08 16:22:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Diagnostician is a medical doctor

2007-03-09 01:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0 0

All that comes to mind is endocrinology...

2007-03-08 12:33:50 · answer #4 · answered by booda2009 5 · 0 0

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