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ophthalmologist

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ophthalmologist [‚äf‚thal′mäl·ə·jəst]
(medicine)
A physician who specializes in ophthalmology. Also known as oculist.


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All ophthalmologists reused surgical instruments that had been incompletely sterilized to eliminate infectious prion protein.
In order to be compliant under audit standards required the patient to schedule appointment with an ophthalmologist, go to the ophthalmologist's office to have an examination, have the ophthalmologist generate a report, have the report transmitted from the ophthalmologist to the primary care physician and, finally, have the report placed in the patient's clinical record.
Dr Kathy McClellan, a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sydney Eye Hospital, has noticed an increase in the number of teenagers with eye infections caused by contact lenses (Australian, 25/7/03, p.
 
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