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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do not attempt any diet without consulting your family doctor or specialist.
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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 family doctor was a name on a card rather than a face to be recognised in the street.
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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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The system of paying the family doctor retained the pre-1948 idea of a payment per patient registered with that doctor.