feldsher

British  

/ ˈfɛldʃə /

noun

1. (in Russia) a medical doctor's assistant

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Etymology

Origin of feldsher

C19: Russian, from German Feldscher a field surgeon, from Feld field + Scherer surgeon, from scheren to shear

Example Sentences

One problem is money: an ambulance doctor with six years' schooling earns only $100 a month; a feldsher with four years' training is paid $90.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also carry a medical doctor and a feldsher, or medical assistant, a combination that makes treatment more readily available than it is in most U.S. emergency rooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The znakharka and the feldsher represent two very different periods in the history of medical science—the magical and the scientific.

From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir

I shall dismiss my feldsher, close the barracks, and if the cholera comes, I shall cut rather a comic figure.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance

On a level with the feldsher and much preferred by the peasantry, stood the snakharka, a woman, half witch, half quack, who was regarded by the moujiks with the greatest veneration.

From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton