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geriatrician

British  
/ ˌdʒɛrɪəˈtrɪʃən /

noun

  1. a physician who specializes in geriatric medicine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This can cause immense distress in dementia patients thinking about euthanasia, explains Dr Rozemarijn van Bruchem, a geriatrician and ethicist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

A neurologist, geriatrician or geriatric psychiatrist could assess him.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

“A medicine that was right for you at one point in time, may not be the best thing for you” now, says Cynthia Boyd, a geriatrician at Johns Hopkins University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Stairs equipped with rails, for example, pose less risk of falls to seniors than walking around the neighborhood, says Meera Sheffrin, a Stanford Medicine geriatrician.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

The first requirement of a good geriatrician was sympathy and understanding.

From Life Sentence by Dick Francis

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