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doctor shop
[dok-ter shop]
verb (used with or without object)
to obtain prescriptions for a controlled substance from more than one healthcare practitioner at a time.
Some patients doctor shop in an attempt to score multiple prescriptions for painkillers.
One theory about the celebrity’s fatal overdose is that the medication may have been doctor-shopped.
to visit one physician after another in search of a satisfactory one or a particular outcome.
The patient appears to have schizophrenia, and to have doctor shopped for a diagnosis of autism.
Other Word Forms
- doctor shopper noun
- doctor-shopper noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of doctor shop1
Example Sentences
"If we stay home as much as possible, and wear masks when we have to go to the doctor, shop for groceries or go for a hike, California can come out of this in a way that saves lives and puts us on a path toward economic recovery," Newsom previously said.
The former physician got an education from other inmates on the web of deception used by addicts to “doctor shop” in search of prescriptions using fake ID’s of changing one letter of a surname to bypass prescription monitoring programmes.
We know too that the rich and the famous “doctor shop,” and that during the course of their travels, they can get doctors to write prescriptions and hide the truth from their life-sustaining audiences.
Fields said the medical community recognizes the extent of the opiate addiction problem in the state and supports the law as a way to improve tracking of painkiller prescriptions and to identify patients who attempt to doctor shop to get more pills.
Golden also questioned whether the safeguards cited by Coombs Lee are truly effective, noting that people who are depressed or being pressured to take their own lives can "doctor shop" until they find a physician willing to sign off on their lethal prescription.
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