family practitioner
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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
Cosgrove, the Bakersfield family practitioner, hit all three points during his successful bid for reinstatement in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021
Dr. John Ray, a family practitioner who works shifts at the hospital, said the hospital on one recent day got back-to-back calls about incoming coronavirus patients.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2020
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
The Bush House family practitioner being absent, a new man came for him, who, after a few glances at Matilda, postponed the examination of her lungs, and begged to see Miss Mulberry.
From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty