How to Use family doctor in a Sentence

family doctor

noun

• Soon the family doctor, black medicine kit in hand, arrived at the door.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
• All this is a long way from the family doctor of my youth and many will miss face-to-face contact.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• Mudassir spoke to the family doctor about what to do, and the doctor said the Lego would find its own way out through the body.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• After all, the 58-year-old family doctor was that guy just a few weeks ago.
  — Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2020
• So just go home and have your family doctor run some tests.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• His next stop was his family doctor, more blood tests, more of the same results … white blood cells going up.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 21 July 2022
• In Taungoo, a midsized city in the Burmese plains, she is mostly known as a family doctor.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• My family doctor started me on hydralazine at 50 mg twice a day, then 50 mg three times a day.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 July 2022
• There are drugs for blood pressure and cholesterol and follow-ups with the family doctor.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
• These are reasons to go in and talk with your family doctor and do any lab work to see if anything is happening with your adrenals.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Bradley has been Baker's family doctor for more than 30 years.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
• And, with the average wait to see a family doctor now around two weeks, some happily pay to avoid delay.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Get our daily newsletter Although the NHS hopes to train and recruit new family doctors, the gap won’t be plugged any time soon.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• My dentist, family doctor and an ear, nose and throat doctor gave me no answers.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2022
• As a family doctor, my heart is with those patients and their families.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• His father, Ed Davis, was family doctor for most of the residents in the town and surrounding counties.
  — Al.com and The Huntsville Times, AL.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• For more than 55 years, Dr. Nathan Zimmerman was an old-time family doctor.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2020
• As the Bay Area began to reopen last month, Pfeiffer consulted the family doctor about the safest way for her parents to meet their grandson.
  — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2020
• Answer: Ask your mom and dad and your family doctor, but that's unlikely for most people.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 13 Mar. 2018
• Help is available by reaching out to your family doctor.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• For the minority whose mental health symptoms don’t go away, the family doctor is supposed to step in.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• In the past, she would likely have been sent home with little continuing care aside from her family doctor.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Other doctors raised concern about the treatments, and her family doctor even told her she didn't have arthritis.
  — Jen Christensen, Michael Nedelman and Paul Murphy, CNN, 15 May 2018
• His father worked as a family doctor, and his mother ran a pharmacy.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 8 June 2020
• Gone are the family doctors who know the whole family across generations and manage all health care.
  — Marc Agronin, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2017
• And on Monday, Banat’s relatives asked his family doctor not to join the panel.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• Lyme disease made family doctors begin to suspect tick bites in patients with fevers and to blood more often.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• He is listed as a family doctor on the company’s website.
  — Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
• Start with your family doctor, and depending on the age of your child, a pediatrician.
  — Hansa Bhargava, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Starting at quarterback at 45 is akin to being a family doctor well into his ninth decade.
  — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024