There are many different types of doctors. For example heart, blood, brain and lots more. Elizabeth Blackwell is the first women doctor. Florence Nightingale is the first woman nurse. Dr Michael is my local GP.

The local doctor is known as a general practitioner or G.P. The skin doctor is called a Dermatologist. Doctors are important to our community because they are health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, who is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.

A specialist medical practitioner focuses their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients or methods of treatment.

Medical practice requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment, the science of medicine, a decent competence in its applied practice and the art or craft of medicine.

Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself vary around the world, but as generally understood, the ethics of medicine require that physicians show consideration, compassion and benevolence for their patients.