A psychiatrist is a physician â doctor of medicine (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) â who specializes in mental health. This type of doctor may further specialize in areas such as child and adolescent, geriatric, or addiction psychiatry. A psychiatrist can: Diagnose and treat mental health disorders.
The furlong is an old English unit of distance that is still regularly used in horse racing. A furlong is 660 feet, which is one-eighth of a mile. Continue Reading.
If the mile originated with 5,000 Roman feet, how did we end up with a mile that is 5,280 feet? Blame the furlong. The furlong wasn't always just an arcane unit of measure that horseracing fans gabbed about; it once had significance as the length of the furrow a team of oxen could plow in a day.