Labeling a physician and all other non-physician medical professionals as a “PROVIDER” is inaccurate, degrades, demeans, and devalues their medical education, and should be aggressively opposed in all communication media. Just as the clerics are not recognized as “prayer providers,” physicians should not be referred to as “health care providers.” They are physicians and surgeons, proud graduates of a medical school, just as their predecessors have been for centuries. Physicians and surgeons are a members of an honored profession earned at great personal sacrifice.
They have accepted the ethical and legal responsibility to provide medical care to those in need. Most historians consider the University of Montpellier, Faculty of Medicine, the world's oldest medical school still in operation today. In the United States, the first medical school was opened in 1765 at the College of…
