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
Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bill Johnson, a wealthy farmer and president of Wilmot's doctorless Medical Center Board, saw an opportunity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet it is hardly surprising that under such conditions infant mortality is very great, and, indeed, all through life in this doctorless land astonishing numbers are carried off by diseases we should hardly consider dangerous.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett
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