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- adjective Without a
doctor or doctors.
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Examples
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Yet 82 per cent of people in this "doctorless" group say they have a place they usually turn to for medical assistance: a walk-in clinic, a community health centre or the emergency department of a local hospital.
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Thus, in rotating order, the doctorless were matched up with the doctor trainees who needed living and breathing specimens to learn their trade.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Yet it is hardly surprising that under such conditions infant mortality is very great, and, indeed, all through life in this doctorless land astonishing numbers are carried off by diseases we should hardly consider dangerous.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886
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The last big burst of Bold New Stuff was the stuff that we now all agree was cringe-inducing: Cable in one universe and the doctorless Fate in the other.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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If you’re a Catherine Tate fan, you’ll enjoy this nearly “doctorless” episode.
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