Doctor / Physician
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice.[2] Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the science of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or craft of medicine.
Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself vary around the world. Degrees and other qualifications vary widely, but there are some common elements, such as medical ethics requiring that physicians show consideration, compassion, and benevolence for their patients.
Mattydale
Mattydale is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 6,446 at the 2010 census.
Mattydale is a community in the northeast part of the town of Salina and is a northern suburb of Syracuse.
Mattydale was named for the farm of Frank Matty.
Mattydale is located at 43°5′55″N 76°8′37″W (43.098717, -76.143530).[1] It is north of Syracuse, New York.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all land.
The New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) passes across the community. The Thruway intersects Interstate 81 west of Mattydale.
Mattydale is southwest of Syracuse Hancock International Airport and borders the community of Hinsdale.
Ley Creek, which flows along the south part of Mattydale, enters Onondaga Lake a few miles southwest of the village.