Talk:Xenophysician

The term "Xenophysician" is a speculative term that was never actually used in dialog, therefore it seems more appropriate to simply refer to a topic as a physician who studies/practices exo/xenobiology. --Alan 01:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Physicians are medical practitioners who specialize in some type of human biological medicine as opposed to surgical treatment of human diseases and disorders. The prefix "xeno" means "foreign", which is interpreted as alien. One can infer from the aforedescribed meanings of "xeno" and "physician" the definition of "xenophysician". The inclusion of "alien biological medicine" is exactly meant to represent the practitioner as a physician/medical practitioner who practices alien biology or xenobiology. --Dr. Zefram Cochrane 05:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

One can also infer that a physician with a degree as a xenobiologist would equally apply. --Alan 05:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Do you refer to a physician who is practiced in medically treating members of his/her own species and also studies xenobiology/exobiology? A xenophysician would have to treat alien lifeforms in their medical practice, applying their xenobiology knowledge.--Dr. Zefram Cochrane 06:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If the term was never mentioned, we don't need to create a page for it. We can just cover all of it at exobiology, surgery and xenology. Why xenophysician? It could just as well be called "Exophysician" or "alien physiology specialist". As we don't know and as we don't have evidence for any of the terms, we can do without the page. --Jörg 10:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, I don't recall where McCoy was stated as being associated with this type of reference, despite the apparently misleading note about it in his article. In fact, M'Benga was more of a exo-physician than McCoy, by McCoy's own admission. Add to that the fact that even by the Doctor's own admission, combined with the simple fact that he was a physician programmed with supposedly all medical knowledge in the Federation, had limited knowledge of xenobiology, despite the numerous surgeries we've seen him perform on aliens. This is clearly supported in when he had to consult with Crell Moset, who himself was merely acknowledged as a xenobiologist, who clearly performed medical procedures on the Bajorans, seeming to further disprove the existence of such a designation as "xenophysician." --Alan 10:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The recent additions of a mention of "Andorian physiology" in Babel One isn't enough to keep the page. The term has never been mentioned and the page should be deleted, as I said before on May 20th. --Jörg 21:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I never meant for the inclusion of the instance in which Phlox aided Andorians to serve as a reference to the term, as the term was never mentioned. It was merely added to clarify the role of a xenophysician. --Dr. Zefram Cochrane 21:23, 12 June 2007 (UTC)