family doctor

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Recent Examples on the Web In a 2022 survey of PMDD patients published in the Journal of Women’s Health, more than a third of participants said their family doctors had little knowledge of the premenstrual disorder or how to treat it. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024 This is partly because of a shortage of physicians, especially family doctors. Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 2 May 2024 As big and boisterous as our brood was, no family doctor or pediatrician ever saw our family on a regular basis. Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024 The lawsuit also described how patients allegedly reported abuse to unnamed nursing assistants and family doctors and, in one instance in 2004, to Chicago police. Maggie Vespa, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for family doctor 
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Noun
  • Parents should also discuss any concerns with their family physician.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Loneliness isn't just a feeling, it's associated with serious mental and physical health impacts, including elevated odds of developing diabetes, cardiac risk, dementia, substance abuse, depression and anxiety, Sebastian Tong, a family physician with UW Medicine, told Axios.
    Christine Clarridge, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Robert Jeffrey Zimmer was born on Nov. 5, 1947, in New York City to Dr. Max Zimmer, a family practitioner in the West Village of Manhattan, and Harriet (Brokaw) Mr. Zimmer, who managed her husband’s medical office.
    Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Robert Jeffrey Zimmer was born on Nov. 5, 1947, in Manhattan to Dr. Max Zimmer, a family practitioner in the West Village, and Harriet (Brokaw) Zimmer, who managed her husband’s medical office.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 24 May 2023
Noun
  • Harley Street, in London, is where the most expensive private doctors in the United Kingdom have their offices.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • State of play: Lawmakers last week released a bill that would avert the cut and give doctors a partial inflationary boost of 1.8%.
    Maya Goldman, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024

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