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doctor shop

American

[dok-ter shop] / ˈdɒk tər ˌʃɒp /

Or doctor-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.

First recorded in 1970–75; back formation from doctor shopping ( def. )

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