doctorless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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What Lucius finds, once arrived at the deserted “hospital” in the Carpathians, that hospital a bombed-out church, is a whole new medical education at the hands of the one nurse in the doctorless outpost.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018
Although these changes will make you more autonomous and less reliant on M.D.s—also known, in some circles, as “medical deities”—the future will not be doctorless.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2015
Almost half of the nation's 180,000 doctors had to register in the draft this week, and many a civilian worried about being left doctorless.
From Time Magazine Archive
But most have forsaken their specialties to become hard-working general practitioners�often in doctorless farming communities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two well-known specialists from the Massachusetts General Hospital made significant the hegira now taking place that threatens to leave our country, like Britain, almost doctorless.
From A Traveller in War-Time by Churchill, Winston
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