family doctor

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Recent Examples of family doctor Retired family doctor Terence McCormally was heading to Arlington National Cemetery to join others walking across the Memorial Bridge that enters Washington directly in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025 The sisters’ former students have been helping and organizing a daily routine for them, while a family doctor is available to offer medical care, ORF added. Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025 Goldenberg, who is based in Cleveland, had initially picked up the extra job a few years ago to help pay down the massive student debt he and his wife, a family doctor, had accumulated during medical school. Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025 My family doctor in Iowa, during my first major depressive episode in America, asked if I had ever been treated for depression. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for family doctor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for family doctor
Noun
  • The country is experiencing a significant shortage of doctors in primary care, leaving millions without a family physician and contributing to longer emergency room waits and poorer health outcomes.
    Ahmad Mukhtar, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • More than a third of counties in the United States do not have an ob/gyn, a family physician or a certified nurse-midwife.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • And so should a family practitioner who went to osteopathic school.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
  • The company will sell directly to potential customers, alongside clinicians and family practitioners.
    Erin Brodwin, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That includes asking questions from both the patient’s and doctor’s perspective.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Many of those mothers might otherwise have arrived at the emergency room in labor without ever seeing a doctor.
    Shane Strum, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the 1970s and 80s transformed a stretch of run-down shops into a vibrant commercial district, and their children entered Oklahoma’s mainstream as judges, physicians, attorneys and business owners.
    Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Thomas More Society filed the complaint on behalf of pregnancy centers and physicians who cannot in good conscience comply.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026

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“Family doctor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20doctor. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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