general practitioner

American  

noun

1. a medical practitioner whose practice is not limited to any specific branch of medicine or class of diseases. G.P.

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general practitioner British  

noun

1. Informal name: family doctor.   GP.  a physician who does not specialize but has a medical practice ( general practice ) in which he deals with all illnesses

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Etymology

Origin of general practitioner

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Three doctors — an OB-GYN specialist and two general practitioners — already made the daily 52-mile journey from Aden, the main city in Yemen’s south, to Al Kawd to treat about 300 patients every day.

From Los Angeles Times

The result is a worsening national shortage of internists and general practitioners.

From MarketWatch

If the pandemic pushed many general practitioners to quit, imagine the toll it took on emergency medicine.

From Salon

In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.

From Los Angeles Times

After eight years as a general practitioner in some of Thailand's poorest and most remote regions, he obtained a master's degree and PhD in anthropology at Harvard University.

From Barron's

Related Words

• family doctor