0 the work of a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer who has their own business and does not work for a company or the government
1 the work of a person such as a doctor or lawyer who has their own business and does not work for a company or the government:
In very few non-private hospitals is private practice allowed on the premises.
I try to keep a balance between 'doing it' and 'teaching it' by combining lecturing and tutoring with private practice.
Sixty-one percent of the hygienists and 57 percent of the dentists were working in private practice.
It is also clear that clinicians will use such technologies in their private practice.
At the end of 1997, 26,682 physicians (23.6% of physicians working in private practice) had been inspected.
Other studies have focused, more narrowly, on certain features of private practice.
Doctors and other professionals generally work either in these institutions or in private practice or both.
However, even in the absence of for-profit firms, physicians encounter such conflicts of interest when they engage in private practice because they perform entrepreneurial roles.