priest-doctor

noun as in faith healer

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alternative practitioner
healer
nonmedical therapist
shaman
witch doctor

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She assumed the form of a priest-doctor, clothed herself in a priest’s gown, with the regulation headdress and straw shoes, and attached to her girdle a gourd containing pills and other medicines.

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But the whole decision rests entirely with the patient and his confessor; or they can call in an expert priest-doctor.

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