Nonphysician

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is not a physician.

    "“Two Sides to Every Health Care Debate” serves as a microcosm of what is wrong with the dialogue on health care: nonphysician experts each offering inflexible, oversimplified, dogmatic solutions to isolated parts of an infinitely complex problem."

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"“Two Sides to Every Health Care Debate” serves as a microcosm of what is wrong with the dialogue on health care: nonphysician experts each offering inflexible, oversimplified, dogmatic solutions to isolated parts of an infinitely complex problem."

Etymology

From non- + physician.

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