as in optometrist
a medical professional who studies and treats problems and diseases of the eye
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Recent Examples of ophthalmologist
Bashar was an ophthalmologist, age 28, doing a residency at the Western Eye Hospital.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
Your ophthalmologist can teach you how to keep your lenses clean and dry.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 26 Apr. 2025
But the logistics would likely be too expensive or burdensome for test subjects, says ophthalmologist Kevin Miller of UCLA Health.
—Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
However, ophthalmologists primarily diagnose and manage wet AMD.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
Your ophthalmologist can teach you how to keep your lenses clean and dry.
—Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 26 Apr. 2025
But the logistics would likely be too expensive or burdensome for test subjects, says ophthalmologist Kevin Miller of UCLA Health.
—Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2025
However, ophthalmologists primarily diagnose and manage wet AMD.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ophthalmologist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ophthalmologist
Noun
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Zervas, who is a licensed optometrist, pleaded guilty in March to fraudulently overbilling the state’s Medicaid program over the course of more than five years.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2025
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The life skills teacher is a devoted mom to her son Harry (Jude Hill) and wife to a successful optometrist Fred (Matthew Macfadyen).—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Franciscan Health building at 770 Indian Boundary Road houses the Emergency Department and doctors’ offices.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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Novant Health is incorporating mental health into other aspects of medical care to try to improve rates of early intervention, including asking questions about mental health during check-ups and increasing mental health staffing at doctor’s offices throughout the region.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 2025
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By then, Bustamante had found a new passion, going back to school to become a physician’s assistant.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
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As things stand right now, people with cognitive issues will usually see their primary care physician, get a referral, then have to wait for months to see a specialist, Kolachalama says.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
28 May 2025
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And yet, for most patients, monitoring the disease is still anchored in short, infrequent visits to a neurologist’s office.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Doctors referred him to a pediatric neurologist for an appointment a little over a week later, the suit said, but the family came back to the ER four days after their first visit with worsening symptoms.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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In Friday's strike, only one of pediatrician Alaa al-Najjar's 10 children survived at their home near the southern city of Khan Younis.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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Only one of pediatrician Alaa al-Najjar’s 10 children survived the Israeli strike on their home Friday near the southern city of Khan Yunis.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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David Cronenberg’s coolly perverse Dead Ringers dissects the entangled psyche of identical twin gynecologists, Beverly and Elliot Mantle (an iconic dual performance by Jeremy Irons).—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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One of a handful of practicing physicians in the state legislature, Weber Pierson is leaning heavily on her experience as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist who treats children with reproductive birth defects — one of only two in Southern California.—
Kaiser Health News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2025
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Karen Brown/New England Public Media Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years.—
Karen Brown,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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His childhood was spent roaming the halls of the large brick hospital where his mother worked as an internist.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Depending on their training, clinical judgment and professional guidelines, their approach may differ slightly from my take as a urologist.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
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Some urologists were surprised that the 82-year-old underwent prostate cancer screening at all, according to Dr. Gounder, because routine screening in men over 75 is controversial.—
Jordan Freiman,
CBS News,
18 May 2025
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“Ophthalmologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ophthalmologist. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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