physician vs surgeon

physician

noun
  • A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery. 

  • A medical doctor trained in human medicine. 

surgeon

noun
  • One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. 

  • A surgeonfish. 

How often have the words physician and surgeon occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )