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Medical practitioner   /mˈɛdəkəl præktˈɪʃənər/   Listen
Medical practitioner

noun
1.
Someone who practices medicine.  Synonym: medical man.






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"Medical practitioner" Quotes from Famous Books



... Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson's shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames. His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

... he expected me to become a physician. Every month showed my prospects in a less hopeful light. I had rushed into my position in blind confidence in the man, and without any appreciation of the requirements of a medical practitioner. But these requirements now presented themselves to my mind with constantly increasing force. Foremost among them was a knowledge of anatomy, and how could that be acquired except at a medical school? It was every day more evident that if I continued in ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... They might as well try to run a race with a heavy weight on their shoulders as to sing or speak with such impediments in their throats. They should at once put themselves in the hands of a properly qualified medical practitioner, who may probably recommend clipping of the uvula or excision of the tonsils. Either operation is a slight one, and in suitable cases nothing but ...
— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke

... he knew of any cases where the disease had been contracted innocently, a medical practitioner stated in evidence: "I know of a case where two girls in —— were infected (syphilis) on the lip through a young fellow handing them a cigarette which he ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health

... Professor, who was purple in the face and perspiring profusely. "Hi, there, Dr. Robinson! I want you. Come! come! hurry, man, hurry!" he ended in a testy rage, and the doctor, knowing Braddock's eccentricities, advanced with a smile. He was a slim, dark, young medical practitioner with an amiable countenance, which argued ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume


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