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misdoctor en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + doctor.

Meanings

1. To doctor improperly; to give the wrong medical treatment.
   • Then when we have overdoctored and misdoctored shall we abstain or reform. 2014, Thomas Parker Boyd, The Voice Eternal:
   • On call, he is prepared to diagnose and prescribe for any cash customer without charging a cent for the extra service; and, since he never changes his location to get away from misdoctored patients or their grieving relatives, it is plain either that he must be very skillful, or that his drugs must be very weak, or that his patients and customers must be very, very tough. 1936, Coronet: (Chicago) - Volume 1, page 38:
   • A decrepit pet woodchuck of mine that had been misdoctored by an officious visitor, lay snugged up in a warm basket near the fireplace, but under cover of darkness got up, squeezed out of a back door and disappeared. 1896 July, F. L. Oswald, “Zoological Heath-Studies: Remedial Instincts”, in Good Health, volume 31, number 7, page 192:

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