doctordom
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]doctordom (uncountable)
- The realm or sphere of doctors; doctors, collectively.
- 2000, Marc Jaffe, Sleeping With Your Gynecologist: Tales from My Marriage to an Ob\gyn, page 35:
- Given all her responsibilities of motherhood and doctordom, Karen relishes her free time.
- 2002, Jared Lee Hanson, Control Freak: Harness the Power, page 199:
- As I continued down the educational path to doctordom, I became frustrated with all the red tape I encountered.
- 2007, Elinor Lipman, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, page 98:
- This is what separates surgeons from the rest of doctordom.