Doctor
noun
A person who is skilled in medicine and treats people who are ill.
I'm feeling sick, maybe I should go see a doctor.
verb
To change something in order to make it appear better, bigger, or worse than it really is.
The data was doctored to make the results look impressive.
noun
A person who has achieved the highest academic degree in a subject.
She's a doctor of philosophy.
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Academic
verb
To treat a person or an animal medically.
He doctored the soldier's wound.
noun
A person who restores, repairs, or fine-tunes things.
He’s a doctor of classic cars.
verb
To add a substance to food or drink, usually alcohol, often to change its taste or to poison it.
Someone doctored the drink with poison.
verb
To add sound to a film or recording to enhance or change its original sound quality.
He doctored the tracks to make the music sound more powerful.
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Technical
noun
A person who is skilled in medicine and treats people who are ill.
I'm feeling sick, maybe I should go see a doctor.
verb
To change something in order to make it appear better, bigger, or worse than it really is.
The data was doctored to make the results look impressive.
noun
A person who has achieved the highest academic degree in a subject.
She's a doctor of philosophy.
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To treat a person or an animal medically.
He doctored the soldier's wound.
noun
A person who restores, repairs, or fine-tunes things.
He’s a doctor of classic cars.
verb
To add a substance to food or drink, usually alcohol, often to change its taste or to poison it.
Someone doctored the drink with poison.
verb
To add sound to a film or recording to enhance or change its original sound quality.
He doctored the tracks to make the music sound more powerful.
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Medical Expert
Refers to licensed professionals who treat human health conditions.
After the accident, they rushed him to the doctor.
Pro Tip 2/2Universal Respect
'Doctor' often conveys a sense of trust and respect across different cultures.
She trusts her doctor completely with her health issues.
Pro Tip 1/2Medical Expert
Refers to licensed professionals who treat human health conditions.
After the accident, they rushed him to the doctor.
Pro Tip 2/2Universal Respect
'Doctor' often conveys a sense of trust and respect across different cultures.
She trusts her doctor completely with her health issues.
Pro Tip 1/2Medical Expert
Refers to licensed professionals who treat human health conditions.
After the accident, they rushed him to the doctor.
Pro Tip 2/2Universal Respect
'Doctor' often conveys a sense of trust and respect across different cultures.
She trusts her doctor completely with her health issues.
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Right now, it might just look like a few floating balls, but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels Say, delivering a capsule of medicine to a specific spot, breaking up kidney stones,
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including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.
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And the good news is that you can change your lifestyle. Exercise, a healthy diet, and weight loss all lower the risk of heart attacks, whether you've had one before or not. Doctors recommend exercising a few times a week, doing both aerobic activity and strength training.
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encourage them, gently, to seek out some of these options. You might even offer to help with specific tasks, like looking up therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor. To someone with depression, these first steps can seem insurmountable.
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Learning from smallpox:...
proving especially difficult in places suffering from poor infrastructure or civil wars. The eradication effort took decades and involved millions of people working together, from world leaders and international organizations to rural doctors and community workers.
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How do pregnancy tests...
The doctors are also looking for HCG, but with tests that are more sensitive and quantitative, which means they can determine the exact level of HCG in your blood. A few minutes can feel like forever when you're waiting on the results of a pregnancy test.
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What is bipolar...
because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that. Today, doctors work with patients on a case-by-case basis to administer a combination of treatments and therapies
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Rethinking infidelity...
of a parent who died, and a friend that went too soon, and bad news at the doctor. Death and mortality often live in the shadow of an affair, because they raise these questions. Is this it? Is there more?
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The psychological weight...
your diabetes not cure you so your doctors will work very very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you so i knew that this was not going to work for me
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Born 4 Months Early,...
I'm going back someday what managerial then will you sleep all day and play one of the doctors said that there was an
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
Right now, it might just look like a few floating balls, but before long, this technology could change your life, or maybe even save it. Imagine if your doctor could move things around in your body without surgery and without scalpels Say, delivering a capsule of medicine to a specific spot, breaking up kidney stones,
Video examples
How does anesthesia...
including the brain. That's what inhalational anesthetics do. In Western medicine, diethyl ether was the first common one. It was best known as a recreational drug until doctors started to realize that people sometimes didn't notice injuries they received under the influence.
Video examples
What happens during a...
And the good news is that you can change your lifestyle. Exercise, a healthy diet, and weight loss all lower the risk of heart attacks, whether you've had one before or not. Doctors recommend exercising a few times a week, doing both aerobic activity and strength training.
Video examples
What is depression? -...
encourage them, gently, to seek out some of these options. You might even offer to help with specific tasks, like looking up therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor. To someone with depression, these first steps can seem insurmountable.
Video examples
Learning from smallpox:...
proving especially difficult in places suffering from poor infrastructure or civil wars. The eradication effort took decades and involved millions of people working together, from world leaders and international organizations to rural doctors and community workers.
Video examples
How do pregnancy tests...
The doctors are also looking for HCG, but with tests that are more sensitive and quantitative, which means they can determine the exact level of HCG in your blood. A few minutes can feel like forever when you're waiting on the results of a pregnancy test.
Video examples
What is bipolar...
because they're afraid it will dim their emotions and destroy their creativity. But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that. Today, doctors work with patients on a case-by-case basis to administer a combination of treatments and therapies
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
of a parent who died, and a friend that went too soon, and bad news at the doctor. Death and mortality often live in the shadow of an affair, because they raise these questions. Is this it? Is there more?
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The psychological weight...
your diabetes not cure you so your doctors will work very very hard to try to prevent complications that might ruin the quality of your life or kill you so i knew that this was not going to work for me
Video examples
Born 4 Months Early,...
I'm going back someday what managerial then will you sleep all day and play one of the doctors said that there was an
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Greg Brenneman
American Businessman
If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.
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Hamilton Jordan
American Public Servant
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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Etta James
American Musician
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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Ami Bera
American Politician
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
My parents gave me life, but the doctors gave me life again.
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Brian Littrell
American Musician
Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.
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Luise Rainer
German Actress
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
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Glenn Danzig
American Musician
If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.
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Greg Brenneman
American Businessman
If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.
Quote examples
Hamilton Jordan
American Public Servant
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
Quote examples
Etta James
American Musician
A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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Ami Bera
American Politician
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Canadian Activist
My parents gave me life, but the doctors gave me life again.
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Brian Littrell
American Musician
Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.
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Luise Rainer
German Actress
The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
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Glenn Danzig
American Musician
If I can help it, I don't go to modern doctors.
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