physicianly

If there is no gainsaying the record that now shows the great man's physicianly ministrations to have been quackery and his psychodynamic theory a pseudoscience, why not just declare that his real significance lay in some safer realm?

'Freud's Megalomania' Rosenfield, Israel 2000

Proof positive, thought Cadfael, satisfied, and went on his physicianly visit serenely and without haste.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

Again, in the work _On the Art_ [_of Medicine_] we read: 'I hold it to be physicianly to abstain from treating those who are overwhelmed by disease', [74] a prudent if inhumane procedure among a people who might regard the doctor's powers as partaking of the nature of magic, and perhaps a wise course to follow at this day in some places not very far from Cos.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

It was significant how he had left his rôle of authorship at home and came physicianly, brisk and competent.

Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell

He says he ain't sick -- not physicianly sick; but he jest don't want to talk an 'see folks.

Dawn 1894

Good night to you, neighbours, "he added, moving away from us with that evasive abruptness to which we were accustomed; and then, turning towards us, with a physicianly finger raised in warning, he resumed the consultation:" No Balbec before you are fifty! "he called out to me," and even then it must depend on the state of the heart. "

Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896