How to Use family doctor in a Sentence

family doctor

noun
  • Soon the family doctor, black medicine kit in hand, arrived at the door.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • All this is a long way from the family doctor of my youth and many will miss face-to-face contact.
    Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • Mudassir spoke to the family doctor about what to do, and the doctor said the Lego would find its own way out through the body.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • After all, the 58-year-old family doctor was that guy just a few weeks ago.
    Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2020
  • So just go home and have your family doctor run some tests.
    Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • His next stop was his family doctor, more blood tests, more of the same results … white blood cells going up.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 21 July 2022
  • In Taungoo, a midsized city in the Burmese plains, she is mostly known as a family doctor.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • My family doctor started me on hydralazine at 50 mg twice a day, then 50 mg three times a day.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 July 2022
  • There are drugs for blood pressure and cholesterol and follow-ups with the family doctor.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
  • These are reasons to go in and talk with your family doctor and do any lab work to see if anything is happening with your adrenals.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Bradley has been Baker's family doctor for more than 30 years.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
  • And, with the average wait to see a family doctor now around two weeks, some happily pay to avoid delay.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Get our daily newsletter Although the NHS hopes to train and recruit new family doctors, the gap won’t be plugged any time soon.
    The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • My dentist, family doctor and an ear, nose and throat doctor gave me no answers.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2022
  • As a family doctor, my heart is with those patients and their families.
    Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • His father, Ed Davis, was family doctor for most of the residents in the town and surrounding counties.
    Al.com and The Huntsville Times, AL.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • For more than 55 years, Dr. Nathan Zimmerman was an old-time family doctor.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2020
  • As the Bay Area began to reopen last month, Pfeiffer consulted the family doctor about the safest way for her parents to meet their grandson.
    Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2020
  • Answer: Ask your mom and dad and your family doctor, but that's unlikely for most people.
    Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Help is available by reaching out to your family doctor.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • For the minority whose mental health symptoms don’t go away, the family doctor is supposed to step in.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In the past, she would likely have been sent home with little continuing care aside from her family doctor.
    Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Other doctors raised concern about the treatments, and her family doctor even told her she didn't have arthritis.
    Jen Christensen, Michael Nedelman and Paul Murphy, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • His father worked as a family doctor, and his mother ran a pharmacy.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 8 June 2020
  • Gone are the family doctors who know the whole family across generations and manage all health care.
    Marc Agronin, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2017
  • And on Monday, Banat’s relatives asked his family doctor not to join the panel.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • Lyme disease made family doctors begin to suspect tick bites in patients with fevers and to blood more often.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • He is listed as a family doctor on the company’s website.
    Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
  • Start with your family doctor, and depending on the age of your child, a pediatrician.
    Hansa Bhargava, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Ruba, being the family doctor, went to a facility where the bodies from the attack were being identified.
    Claire Porter Robbins, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024

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