group practice
nounDefinition of group practice
: medicine practiced by a group of associated physicians or dentists (such as specialists in different fields) working as partners or as partners and employees
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Today, doctors are much likelier to work for large group practices or hospitals and be on call at predictable times. — New York Times, "How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession," 23 Aug. 2019 One portion of the team practiced at 4 p.m., while the other group practiced afterward. — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, "With 70% of its playbook installed, Louisville football begins camp focused on reps," 5 Aug. 2019 The dominant, and fastest growing, source of revenues for hospitals and group practices are aging patients that need more heart surgeries, hip replacements, counseling for depression and the sundry services and procedures furnished by specialists. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, "Trouble Seeing a Specialist? Here’s What’s Driving the ‘Doctor Draught’," 15 July 2019 The ABMS Portfolio Program allows our large group practice to help individual providers acquire MOC credits by engaging in Kelsey-Seybold’s own quality improvement initiatives, which are all designed to improve patient care. — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, "Kelsey-Seybold Clinic joins ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program," 12 July 2019 Resilience in the face of climate change depended on the type of land use the groups practiced, as de Souza and his colleagues describe in the June 17 Nature Ecology and Evolution. — Debbie Ponchner, Scientific American, "Why Some Amazonian Societies Survived and Others Perished amid Pre-Columbian Droughts," 18 June 2019 Her mother, an internist and rheumatologist, is part of New York Physicians, a group practice. — New York Times, "Laura Brenner, Seamus Dromey," 17 June 2018 One group practiced alternate-day fasting, eating 75 percent fewer calories every other day; another group followed CR, with a 25 percent calorie restriction every day; the rest were in a control group. — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, "Not So Fast," 24 Sep. 2018 The bride’s father, a pediatrician, is a partner in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, a group practice with offices in New York and in Scarsdale, N.Y. — New York Times, "Allison Traister, Daniel Blumberg," 13 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'group practice.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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