How to Use general practitioner in a Sentence

general practitioner

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  • Our family doctor is a general practitioner.
  • The patient went to a general practitioner on March 3 with fever, headache, malaise, sore throat and cough, Mkhize said.
    — David McKenzie and Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
  • With a shortage of general practitioners and nowhere else to turn, the E.R. has become the first stop for millions of sick Britons.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • With a shortage of general practitioners and nowhere else to turn, the ER has become the first stop for millions of sick Britons.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • The town has many general practitioners to choose from, as well as some specialists.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2024
  • At one point, Gabriella said, her general practitioner even called to plead with her.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Her husband called a general practitioner, who came to their house and called a crisis line; the crisis service in turn called a psychiatrist to the home.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In a world of specialists, our aim is to offer the insights of the general practitioner by seeing the whole corporate anatomy.
    — Rick Wartzman and, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2017
  • The idea is that general practitioners can use the app as a screening test and neurologists can use it to monitor how their patients progress over time.
    — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Akrami has been waiting more than 4 weeks to be seen at one of them, despite a referral from her general practitioner.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 31 July 2020
  • Like doctors who are general practitioners, these lawyers can handle everything and the kitchen sink.
    — Rebecca Renner, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
  • My general practitioner prescribed a low-dose statin (Crestor 5 mg).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 May 2022
  • After his course of chemo, a general practitioner left him with the impression that his cancer was not responding to treatment.
    — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Some were seen by general practitioners, and only a small percent were seen by specialists.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2018
  • Judges want to see medical certificates of abuse, which can be difficult to obtain for women who see the same general practitioner as their abusers.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021
  • Her general practitioner and a doctor friend, who'd ordered her blood tests, agreed: Eggers needed to get a mammogram.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Since the outbreak began, one in five calls to general practitioners on Practo is coming in from smaller cities like Lucknow, Indore, and Bhubaneshwar.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In New Brunswick the median wait from general practitioner to treatment is an appalling 41.7 weeks.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • To make matters more difficult, a general practitioner can't confirm or rule the condition out through bloodwork or an X-ray.
    — Urmi Bhattacheryya, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Such a surge would usually place huge strain on general practitioners (GPs), as Britain’s family doctors are known.
    — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Janese credited her faith and the advice of her general practitioner to stay optimistic about Janice.
    — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Specialists can have offices, staff and files, but a general practitioner can easily have more stuff to manage.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There were only a handful of doctors in town, mostly general practitioners, so the practice flourished.
    — Mike Mariani, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In that time, Schaefer has seen a general practitioner and a pulmonologist.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2020
  • What’s more, the government aims for 85% of patients referred by their general practitioner for cancer treatment to be seen by a specialist within two months.
    — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The groom’s mother retired as a general practitioner in Anaheim.
    — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Both of Oliver Sacks’s parents were doctors—his mother one of the first English women to qualify as a surgeon, his father a general practitioner.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Federal authorities alleged that Cephalon sales reps had illegally oversold general practitioners on the benefits of the drugs and failed to warn them of the drugs's risks.
    — Bill Myers, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • Yapping with your pals and acquaintances—the ultimate low-tech research—is a really useful way to find a general practitioner, experts tell SELF.
    — Kathleen Felton, SELF, 27 June 2024
  • In state-run hospitals, there is an increasing shortage of general practitioners for primary health care.
    — Eduardo J. Gómez, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2014

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