family practitioner

Example Sentences

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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

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

Then, on the motion—made in dumb show—of Doctor Parker Peps, they went upstairs; the family practitioner opening the room door for that distinguished professional, and following him out, with most obsequious politeness.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles