pill pusher

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noun Slang: Usually Disparaging.

a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.

a pharmacist.

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Origin of pill pusher

First recorded in 1905–10

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism|Samantha Allen|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“He gave me a blue pill, which he said was an antihistamine,” said Chelan.
Two New Bill Cosby Accusers Come Forward: ‘We Challenge Mr. Cosby to End This Nightmare’|Marlow Stern|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Medication can now be taken in a single pill rather than a complex cocktail of tablets.
The New Face of HIV Is Gay & Young|Adebisi Alimi|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A plastic surgeon gave her a supposedly lethal pill that also failed.
The Nurse Coaching People Through Death by Starvation|Nick Tabor|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
Is The Guardian Holding Back The New York Times’ Snowden Stories?|Lloyd Grove|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However cleverly the pill was gilded, the Marshal knew that it was the Emperor's distrust which had lost him the command.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson
Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to supper and to bed, and took a pill.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
That was a good initial effort, running down the opium pill mail-order enterprise.
Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams
But on setting down the cup his eye caught sight of the pill-box.
Stories in Light and Shadow|Bret Harte