I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a doctor prescribes pills (= tells someone to take them )
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Her doctor just prescribed more pills and told her to take it easy.
a doctor prescribes tablets (= tells someone to take them )
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Dr Preston arrived and prescribed some pain-relieving tablets.
a doctor's prescription
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Most of these drugs require a doctor's prescription.
a qualified doctor/teacher/accountant etc
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After seven years of training, she is now a qualified doctor.
a student teacher/doctor/nurse (= someone who is learning to be a teacher, doctor, or nurse )
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Student teachers work alongside qualified teachers to gain classroom experience.
Doctor of Philosophy
family doctor
flying doctor
lady doctor/lawyer etc (= a polite word, which many women find offensive, for a woman doctor, lawyer, etc )
send for the doctor
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Get back into bed. I’ll send for the doctor .
spin doctor
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White House spin doctors
study to be a doctor/lawyer etc
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My brother’s studying to be an accountant.
woman priest/doctor etc (= a priest etc who is a woman )
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Ireland’s first woman president
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women artists
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
junior
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We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.
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But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far.
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One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.
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Medical students and junior doctors seek it.
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A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.
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It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors .
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Firstly, many junior doctors have little understanding of what medical research is all about.
local
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Instead, she quietly went to her local doctor for anti-inflammatory drugs.
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A local doctor was summoned while George Pinker, Diana's gynaecologist, travelled from London to visit his royal patient.
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The study began in 1991 with volunteers recruited through referrals from local doctors .
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The local doctor found traces of arsenic in Martin's system.
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Students may register with the University Medical Officer or with a local doctor of their own choice.
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There's a local doctor called Frome.
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Our local CAA-approved doctor charges the princely sum of £65 for similar services.
■ NOUN
family
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The Beans had never had a family doctor .
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The change affected clinics that primarily perform abortions as well as family doctors who may do the procedure along with unrelated services.
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Do not attempt any diet without consulting your family doctor or specialist.
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The jury retired to consider its verdict in the trial of Harold Shipman, the family doctor accused of killing 15 patients.
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Lily had suggested to Muriel that they buy a wheelchair and take Rory out, and the family doctor had been enthusiastic.
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The services are available from hospitals, clinics and family doctors who have agreed to provide family planning advice.
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This section looks at the range of services and how the family doctor service will be run to meet your needs.
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We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist.
■ VERB
call
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There were of course no telephones available to call a doctor and some one usually had to run or ride to call him out.
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He laid her on the kitchen table while he called the doctor .
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In the end she had to call the doctor out in the middle of the night.
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Ellie called her doctor and drove us into town to see him.
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Frau Gess telephoned very early in the morning to say that she had just called the doctor .
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They had always called on individual doctors .
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He called a doctor and they put me to bed.
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They were organized into regional groupings to call on individual doctors .
consult
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If you are involved in any form of drug misuse consult your doctor .
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If no improvement is noticed within three weeks, consult your doctor or homeopath before continuing the treatment.
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For further information on safe limits of drinking, please consult your doctor .
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Labels on acetaminophen painkillers recommend consulting a doctor if a person has had more than three alcoholic drinks, he said.
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During pregnancy women are advised to consult their doctor about appropriate drinking levels.
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Please, he says, consult your doctor before you begin any exercise program.
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But if you have any doubts consult a doctor .
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She called the hospital, but they advised her to consult her doctor on Monday morning.
prescribe
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Some we all use occasionally, like medicine prescribed by a doctor or bought from a chemist.
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They were paid a commission based on the drugs prescribed by individual doctors .
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Always try a change of diet before giving laxatives, which should always be prescribed by a doctor or nurse.
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Take no drugs unless prescribed by a doctor .
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A very occasional half tablet might be prescribed by the doctor to restore a habit of good sleep that has been broken.
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The pill is prescribed by a doctor .
see
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Rhoda had a nasty pain in her stomach but refused to see a doctor .
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Remember to see your doctor before undertaking vitamin therapy.
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You had to be nice to see the doctor .
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Do you remember the last time you saw the doctor , and for what?
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Make sure you go to see your doctor as soon as you suspect you are pregnant.
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If your heartburn persists, see your doctor .
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I needed the car because I wanted to go and see the doctor .
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He saw a medical doctor three days before he died of a heart attack and passed the checkup with flying colors.
send
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Shouldn't you have sent for your own doctor ?
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They established health clinics in some villages, dug wells in others and send their doctors and nurses into the countryside.
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The boy was sent for the doctor .
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One day, his grandfather becomes ill, so the young man is sent to bring the doctor .
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They have even sent Department of Health doctors around to examine her to see if she is too ill to travel.
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They sent Bill for the doctor , but they knew he would not be able to get through to the farm.
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I sent for a doctor , who cleaned her wounds.
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Of course, I sent ashore for a doctor , and he was able to diagnose the cause of death with certainty.
visit
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David decided not to visit the firm's doctor .
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We knew nothing of what had become of her since the June morning she and Dad had left to visit the doctor .
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The paper also advocated increased charges for the health service and suggested further savings, like charging patients to visit the doctor .
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Make a list of all the drugs and take it each time you visit a doctor or pharmacist.
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Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with increasing frequency.
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Meanwhile, Agnes begins to rethink her decision while visiting the handsome doctor in his splendid Venetian mansion.
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Even before the blazer, I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor .
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It reopened after students and instructors visited a doctor , and the building was disinfected.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a practising doctor/lawyer/teacher etc
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Morwenna Wood a practising doctor is being treated in Oxford's JOhn radcliffe hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Where's Karen?" "She's at the doctor 's."
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Doctor , I keep getting a pain in my throat.
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I'd like to make an appointment to see Doctor Patel some time this morning.
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I made an appointment with Doctor Sangha for next Monday.
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I went to see the doctor about my cough but she said there was nothing wrong with me.
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She looks very ill - you'd better call a doctor .
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Tracy is interested in journalism, but Sarah wants to be a doctor .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A partnership needs to be established between doctors and management with both controlling resources so that they are interdependent.
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One of the Peckhams' sons is a poet, another is an environmental consultant, and the third is a doctor .
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She further offended doctors by clinging to patently wrong ideas.
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The program has been hailed by doctors as a model for other developing countries, where few can afford expensive treatment.
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This is a particularly cruel irony because as the 1911 census revealed doctors had the smallest families of all categories of occupations.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gina gently doctored Clint's injured hand.
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Nancy likes to doctor her coffee with a shot of whisky.
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Photographs can easily be doctored.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Their liquor has been nicely doctored - gave them an extra ration of ale to celebrate my arrival!
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Two other writers were brought in to doctor the script before they finally returned to finish their task.