Treating Physician Law and Legal Definition. A treating physician is defined as âsomeone who provides you, or has provided you, with medical treatment or evaluation and who has, or has had, an ongoing treatment relationship with you.
In the first four weeks from conception, fetal growth of the ovum begins with development of the spinal cord, nervous system, gastrointestinal system, heart and lungs. By eight weeks, in the embryonic stage, the face is forming, arms and legs move, the baby's heart begins beating and the brain and other organs form.
Jean Piaget. The Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget's four stages of development occur in infancy, preschool, childhood, and adolescence. Each stage is characterized by a general cognitive structure that affects all of the child's thinking. Each stage represents the child's understanding of reality during that period, and each but the last is an inadequate approximation of reality.