family practitioner

Example Sentences

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I don't regret ditching my family practitioner, but now I don't have a GP and am struggling to find someone who accepts new patients.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023

“There was nothing you could do,” said John Preddy, a family practitioner, who delivered two of these dead children and cared for them all their short lives, their scraped knees and runny noses.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

Cosgrove, the Bakersfield family practitioner, hit all three points during his successful bid for reinstatement in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

At the moral center of “Dopesick” is Dr. Samuel Finnix, a family practitioner in the fictional Appalachian town of Finch Creek, Va., played by Michael Keaton.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

That there is a certain degree of languor, and a general absence of elasticity, which we would rather—not— 'See,' interposed the family practitioner with another inclination of the head.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles