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  • noun A specialist who is primarily concerned with a subspecialty within a larger specialty.

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Examples

  • There needs to be a diagnostic formulation, and this may require further evaluation by a subspecialist such as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychologist, or child psychiatrist.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • There needs to be a diagnostic formulation, and this may require further evaluation by a subspecialist such as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychologist, or child psychiatrist.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Out of desperation, insomniacs may problem-solve independently, most commonly resorting to alcohol as a self medication, not understanding that there is in this country, more so than anywhere else, a certified subspecialist sleep medicine community which exists to solve exactly these problems.

    Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010

  • Out of desperation, insomniacs may problem-solve independently, most commonly resorting to alcohol as a self medication, not understanding that there is in this country, more so than anywhere else, a certified subspecialist sleep medicine community which exists to solve exactly these problems.

    Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland 2010

  • There needs to be a diagnostic formulation, and this may require further evaluation by a subspecialist such as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychologist, or child psychiatrist.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • There needs to be a diagnostic formulation, and this may require further evaluation by a subspecialist such as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, pediatric psychologist, or child psychiatrist.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Out of desperation, insomniacs may problem-solve independently, most commonly resorting to alcohol as a self medication, not understanding that there is in this country, more so than anywhere else, a certified subspecialist sleep medicine community which exists to solve exactly these problems.

    Qanta Ahmed, MD: Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland MD Qanta Ahmed 2010

  • A resident and Fellowship trained medical subspecialist knows their specialty.

    Helene Pavlov: Recent Research Reconfirms The Value of Subspecialty Training 2009

  • A subspecialist makes a little more than a hospital-based internist, but not much the last conversation I had - a general hospital pediatrician's daily rate was about 175 NIS a day, and the peds GI made 215.

    Insufferable Twits and "Shitty Consults" 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • Dino as former PCP, hospitalist, and now a subspecialist let me ask you.

    Just (Don't) Do It 1 Dinosaur 2008

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