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doctor shopping

doctor shopping noun: the illegal practice of a patient requesting treatment from multiple physicians in order to obtain prescription drugs, either to feed an addiction or resell them.

Noun

doctor shopping (uncountable)

  1. (crime) The illegal practice of a patient requesting treatment from multiple physicians in order to obtain prescription drugs, either to feed an addiction or resell them.

Synonyms of doctor shopping

Questions about doctor shopping

What does doctor shopping mean?
Doctor shopping means the illegal practice of a patient requesting treatment from multiple physicians in order to obtain prescription drugs, either to feed an addiction or resell them.
What part of speech is doctor shopping?
Doctor shopping is a noun.

Words near doctor shopping in the dictionary

  1. Doctor of Musical Arts
  2. Doctor of Philosophy
  3. Doctor of Science
  4. Doctor Pepper
  5. Doctor Peppers
  6. doctor shopping
  7. doctor up
  8. Doctor Watson
  9. Doctor Watsonish
  10. Doctor Whovian
  11. Doctor Whovians

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