house officer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In 1965, with the help of John Geddes, a senior house officer, and technician Alfred Mawhinney, Prof Pantridge invented the world's first portable defibrillator, using car batteries for the current.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2016
He worked as a house officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary and remembers the hours being "long and horrendous".
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2016
Rani Naidoo, a senior house officer at the Northern General's gynaecology department at the time, went to assist in A&E after she heard "a number of sirens and ambulances coming up the hill".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2015
In 2001 two doctors, a professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery and a senior house officer, famously saved a woman's life on a flight from Hong Kong to London on which they were all travelling.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2011
It sees a gain even in the labor of the custom house officer.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
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