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
  • Unlike with an infection, where doctors can use an objective blood test to pinpoint the bacteria or virus causing the problem, there are few simple tests to determine what kind of mental health disorder someone has.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Then, in the fifth century BCE, came the Greek doctor Hippocrates.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For nearly a millennia and half, even in the centuries when physicians were beginning to supplant priests in treating the ill, epileptic convulsions (unexpected, frightening, enigmatic) remained the territory of the priest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Todd Randall Wilcox, a correctional health-care physician and the former president of the American College of Correctional Physicians, reviewed the medical records associated with Roque Campos’s hospital visits, as part of expert testimony for the class-action suit.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Family doctor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/family%20doctor. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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