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family practitioner

NOUN
family doctor
Synonyms


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“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

Dr. Christina Hillson, medical director and family practitioner at the Lynwood clinic, said that when medical assistants were especially scarce, the clinic stopped drawing blood for lab work from patients.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

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

But my dentist, an old school family practitioner, is a not a knee-jerk peddler of expensive and lengthy treatments.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019

It would appear, I was observing, that the system of our patient has sustained a shock, from which it can only hope to rally by a great and strong—' 'And vigorous,' murmured the family practitioner.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles




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