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Mon 3 Jan, 2011 05:56 am
a grass-roots doctor?
"Grass roots level" is a phrase that is normally used in connection with topics like politics, public-opinion, etc. For example "Although the government wants to build a new cyanide factory in ABC XYZ Province, local grass roots level opinion (i.e. the opinion of ordinary people) is against it."
A hospital doctor who is at the most junior level might be described as "a junior doctor".
A problem you're going to have translating this is that in the English-speaking world, it is illegal to practice medicine without a license. Anyone attempting to practice medicine without a license is subject to very heavy fines and/or imprisonment. There just isn't any such thing as a unlicensed doctor practicing medicine in the English-speaking world, except for scam artists who don't last long. They either move one or wind up in jail.
@Setanta,
Or maybe you are looking for a term for a community doctor, a doctor at a public clinic or a rural doctor. Could you clarify what you want? A "general practitioner" is a doctor who is not a specialist, takes care of a variety of ailments and usually sees the public - the old fashioned family doctor. Maybe that is what you want.
@engineer,
engineer wrote:
A "general practitioner" is a doctor who is not a specialist, takes care of a variety of ailments and usually sees the public - the old fashioned family doctor.
...but not in a hospital, usually.
The thread title:
Quote:How to express "a doctor who practices in a hospital at the grass-roots level ?
@contrex,
Good point. Intern maybe? Resident physician?
@contrex,
In very small communities, you often find that the g.p. has no office outside of the hospital.
It is difficult to determine what the o.p. is asking about without his/her explanation of his/her meaning for "grass-roots level".
probably general practicioner or family doctor would come the closest, or something like "a doctor in general practice"
@oristarA,
Is this anywhere close to what you mean, Ori?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_doctor
@JTT,
That's interesting.
If that is what the o.p. referred to, Set's response was mostly correct.
It would be illegal in the U.S. or Canada for someone with only six months post-secondary education to claim to be a doctor.
Thank you all.
I think " junior doctor" or "community doctor" is what I was seeking for.
Apparently, I've not conveyed the exact meaning in the title of the thread, which was misleading in some way.
The exact meaning I sought is that the doctor only has the qualification to serve in a small hospital in a small town or community, but not qualified to practice in a big hospital like Mayo Clinic.
Another question is how to describe a doctor who practices at the highest level (e.g. served as the director of cancer ward in John Hopkins Hospital - one of the best hospitals in the world)?
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
The exact meaning I sought is that the doctor only has the qualification to serve in a small hospital in a small town or community, but not qualified to practice in a big hospital like Mayo Clinic.
No. There is simply no such classification of doctor in the US. They complete medical school, internship, and residency. If they do, they are doctors. If they don't, they are not. There is just no in between, halfway doctor.
Roger has got it exactly right, Oristar. This is entirely an either or proposition--either someone is qualified and licensed to be a doctor, or is not. You could use a comparative--of all the doctors in the coutry, she is one of the most skillful, and therefore heads the cancer unit at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. But as i pointed out at the beginning, and as Roger has so succinctly put it just now, either you are a doctor, or you are not.
Thank you both Roger and Setanta.
It reflects that fact that Chinese medic al education system is flawed.
@Setanta,
Well in Britain, after you are a doctor and if you work in a hospital, if you prosper you will be a houseman and then eventually a consultant.
@McTag,
Around here, if you can't do anything, you teach. If you can't teach, you become a consultant. Then, you borrow somebody's watch, tell them what time it is, and send them a bill.
@oristarA,
You have interns in hospitals who may have passed the medical exams but rely on experienced nurses tohelp him/her. They are inexperienced medics and do most of the work in hospitals on weekends so it is dangerous to be sick on weekends. Many pateints have died who got sick on weekends.
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