Doctor Feelgood

Noun

Doctor Feelgood (countable and uncountable, plural Doctor Feelgoods)

1. (US, slang) Heroin.
2. (US, slang) An unscrupulous physician who prescribes controlled drugs in absence of clinically valid indications for their use.
   • Certainly [Andrew] Bergman can turn out funny lines, even whole clusters of them from time to time. But I have no respect for a playwright who feeds you jokes the way one throws fish to the seals at the zoo—without any respect for human nature, for truth, for a purpose in writing other than making...1986 April 28, John Simon, “Sisters and Brothers”, in New York, volume 19, number 17, →ISSN, page 107
   • “I’m sorry,” I said finally. I was being petty and I knew it. “Truth is… prescription drugs are beyond my area of expertise. What about all your high-flying financial contacts? Surely one of the partners knows some Dr. Feelgood.”2012, Chris Mendius, Spoonful, Oak Park, Ill.: Anything Goes Publishing, →ISBN, page 133