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consulting room

British  

noun

  1. a room in which a doctor, esp a general practitioner, sees his patients

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“If the unconscious is structured like a language, the design of a therapist’s consulting room is also a language,” Deborah Levy writes in a recent Granta essay.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

I was quickly shown into a consulting room, where a nurse questioned me and told me to wait.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2022

A warm, profound memoir of a year in the consulting room of Epstein, a psychiatrist and practicing Buddhist.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022

In her consulting room, the doctor sees the evidence of semi-contractual, often temporary liaisons between men and women.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2021

But the minute Dr. Vifias closed the door of his consulting room, he was a different man, intent, serious, down to business.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez