general practitioner
noun
: a physician or veterinarian whose practice is not limited to a specialty
broadly
: generalist
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Our family doctor is a general practitioner.
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Lowe went to his general practitioner at the time, who recommended a colonoscopy.
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Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
Grumpy and delightfully curt, Martin gives up his successful career as a surgeon after developing a fear of blood and takes over as a general practitioner in a small seaside town called Portwenn full of reliably quirky characters.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Even then, those symptoms are often misdiagnosed as being caused by respiratory ailments – this can happen even when a general practitioner listens to the patient's heart with a conventional single-sensor stethoscope.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
So far, computer models indicate that the algorithm should outperform general practitioners at accurately diagnosing VHD.
University of Cambridge
The device has already been tested on 40 healthy test subjects of various body sizes, half of them male and half of them female.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
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Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
Grumpy and delightfully curt, Martin gives up his successful career as a surgeon after developing a fear of blood and takes over as a general practitioner in a small seaside town called Portwenn full of reliably quirky characters.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
Even then, those symptoms are often misdiagnosed as being caused by respiratory ailments – this can happen even when a general practitioner listens to the patient's heart with a conventional single-sensor stethoscope.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
So far, computer models indicate that the algorithm should outperform general practitioners at accurately diagnosing VHD.
University of Cambridge
The device has already been tested on 40 healthy test subjects of various body sizes, half of them male and half of them female.
—New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2025
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general practitioner
noun
: a physician or veterinarian whose practice is not limited to a specialty
Dr. Thomas, Sr., could carry virtually the full armamentarium of the medicine of his day in a single black bag, and very nearly all of medical knowledge in his head. Today the general practitioner is a vanishing breed, and specialists cannot use their time effectively traveling from patient to patient.—John Steele Gordon, American Heritage
John Steele Gordon, American HeritageThe primary-care doctor is gaining new respect in Washington. Battles may be breaking out left and right over the various health-care bills emerging from Congress, but reformers on both sides agree that general practitioners should be given a central role in uniting the fragmented U.S. medical system.—Catherine Arnst, Business Week
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