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
In San Francisco and Los Angeles a doctorless patient may march into a hospital, get a complete diagnosis by X-ray men, pathologists, urinoscopists and other technicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the Chinese war on board an otherwise doctorless ship he singlehandedly cared for 300 fever-stricken patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two well-known specialists from the Massachusetts General Hospital made significant the hegira now taking place that threatens to leave our country, like Britain, almost doctorless.
From A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill
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