How to Use geriatrician in a Sentence

geriatrician

noun
  • Plastic surgeons may buy mansions, but geriatricians clip coupons.
    — Monya De, STAT, 17 Feb. 2020
  • In 14 states, the number of geriatricians will need to increase fivefold.
    — Kimberly Leonard, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2020
  • For years, geriatricians and researchers have sounded the alarm about the use of benzodiazepines among older adults.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • And the number of geriatricians has fallen to about 7,300.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Some of those people probably are taking drugs that aren’t helping and can cause problems, researchers and geriatricians say.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • While frequent falls are a sign of increasing frailty, geriatricians say there's no reason Carter can't make a full recovery.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The number of geriatricians in the United States is shrinking, while the need for them is increasing.
    — NBC News, 8 May 2018
  • What matters most, geriatricians emphasize, are changes in an individual’s score over months and years.
    — Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
  • Palmer, a geriatrician who makes medical decisions for her mother, said her mother plans to get vaccinated.
    — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Yet, with a few exceptions, gerontologists and geriatricians — those who study aging most closely — have been absent from these debates.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • Ideally, the patients will consult with their primary care physicians or geriatricians, but those docs are often overburdened and pressed for time.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Each of the three candidates is at higher risk of becoming seriously ill because of their age, said Aronson, who is a geriatrician.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Loss of muscle power begins within a day or two of becoming bedridden, explains Amit Arora, a geriatrician.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • The ranks of doctors and nurses—especially internists and, in an unfortunate twist, geriatricians—are also thinning.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • In 2014, the median yearly salary of a geriatrician in private practice was less than half of a cardiologist’s salary.
    — Sara Zeff Geber, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • Last year, there were just 7,279 certified geriatricians in the United States, only about half practicing full time.
    — Paula Span, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • James Kirkland started his career in 1982 as a geriatrician, treating aging patients.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Clough was busy with her work as an administrator at the local senior center while Dorio, a house-call geriatrician, crisscrossed the valley visiting his patients.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Jonathan Appelbaum is an internist, geriatrician and an HIV specialist.
    — Jonathan Appelbaum, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The groom’s mother, a pediatrician, and father, a geriatrician and palliative medicine specialist, share a practice in New York.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2017
  • His dad is a geriatrician at Rush University Medical Center and serves as the medical director of a nursing home.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Geriatric psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and geriatricians may also be able to diagnose the condition through testing and brain imaging.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Evans, the Charlottesville geriatrician, who turns 60 this fall, said some specialties are not attracting nearly enough young doctors because the nature of the work has shifted in a less interesting direction.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Such medications play a major role, agreed Thomas Gill, a geriatrician and epidemiologist at Yale University and a longtime falls researcher.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Jay Meyerowitz, a geriatrician in private practice who serves as the medical director of two New Jersey nursing homes, thought he was done getting phone calls about coronavirus infections in the facilities.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In order to effectively care for the number of seniors who are projected to have Alzheimer’s dementia in 2050, the number of practicing geriatricians would have to nearly triple, according to the report.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Devyani Misra, a geriatrician and rheumatologist at Harvard Medical School, said the study’s findings show promise but the results are not generalizable because the researchers preselected participants who would probably benefit from changing their walking gait.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Developed in close consultation with geriatricians, regulators, and pharmaceutical companies, PROSPR is designed to create the foundation for a true longevity sector by enabling, in a clinical trial lasting just three years, the first generation of drugs targeting aging.
    — Andrew S. Brack, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Another skeptic, Neil Alexander, a geriatrician and falls expert at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, argued that most doctors have come to understand the dangers of FRIDs and prescribe them less often.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Avoid Alcohol, Caffeine, and Late-Night Meals Meal timing is another lifestyle factor to consider when trying to improve sleep, according to Sharon Brangman, MD, a geriatrician and trustee of the McKnight Brain Research Foundation.
    — Allison Forsyth, Health, 9 June 2026

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