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• The term doctor (medical doctor) is older and shorter (see doctor of medicine), but can be confused with holders of other academic doctorates

• Doctor (gen.: doctoris) means teacher in Latin and is an agentive noun derived from the verb docere ('teach'). In French, médecin (doctor, physician) is a contraction of docteur médecin, a direct equivalent of doctor of medicine
• In current French idiom, the term toubib, is now a synonym, derived from Arabic طبيب (tabÄ«b, physician).

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are not described as physicians; the American College of Nurse Practitioners do not characterize themselves this way. They are classified as allied healthcare professionals. Some nurse Baltimore Joint Pain practitioners may perform grindstone allied to that of some physicians, especially in excellent care, but of a lesser scope