general practitioner
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In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
After eight years as a general practitioner in some of Thailand's poorest and most remote regions, he obtained a master's degree and PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
Anyone who’s ever seen a doctor knows that face-to-face time with a general practitioner tends to be much shorter, usually only about 15 minutes.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
The two candidates were also asked about a possible cut in the fuel excise tax and the rising cost of seeing a general practitioner.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
So he sat down and, in his free evenings and weekends, wrote an eight-hundred-page textbook on the subject, painstakingly reviewing the available evidence for the most common problems a general practitioner might encounter.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
