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family practitioner

noun as in family doctor

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I don't regret ditching my family practitioner, but now I don't have a GP and am struggling to find someone who accepts new patients.

From Salon

He was awarded a $125,000 Chick Evans Scholarship, which will enable him to attend the University of Washington, study biological sciences and pursue his dream of becoming a family practitioner.

As family practitioner Dr. Meera Shah told Salon after failed Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz invoked this myth during a debate, "That's just not something that happens," and it "doesn't even make sense," because you can't "abort" a pregnancy that is full-term.

From Salon

“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.

Dr. Christina Hillson, medical director and family practitioner at the Lynwood clinic, said that when medical assistants were especially scarce, the clinic stopped drawing blood for lab work from patients.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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