a licensed medical practitioner; " I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

One skilled in the art of healing; a doctor of medicine.

One skilled in the use of physic or the art of healing: one who prescribes remedies for diseases.

One whose profession is to prescribe remedies for diseases; one who heals moral diseases.

One legally qualified to practise the art of healing; a medical man.

" My dear sir," said the Chicago man, " this person is himself a physician, unless I am very much mistaken. – From Whose Bourne by Robert Barr

The physician stirred uneasily. – Rainbow's End by Rex Beach

The physician, Dr. Addington, of Reading, soon arrived, and went directly to my mother's room. – Trial-of-Mary-Blandy by Roughead, William

" I am sorry to say it," answered the physician-" having heard of the interesting occasion on which she had engaged to be one of your guests- but, at her age, I must ask for a little more time." – Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

The physician let him talk on for some time; then he took his wrist, thus." – The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer

A few days after he called in Corvisart, who three years later was appointed first physician to the Emperor. – The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

The music ceased, and a former scholar, now a physician in Grenchen, stepped from out of the ranks. – Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

He had heard from his friend, the physician, who had willingly offered to find a house for Mrs. Stanhope near his own, in the little village of Buchberg, among the mountains. – Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri

On the threshold he was greeted by the physician. – The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle

It is not, he says, at all serious; but it will make him go to London to see a physician, and it is likely to prevent him from getting about. – The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant

The official physician now arrived: " Let us examine the servants." – Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

And remember that I am now speaking of the true physician. – Plato's Republic by Plato

I will then explain that I am the court physician, and that his majesty, having just heard of the Khanum Effendi's illness, has sent me down to attend her. – Paul Patoff by F. Marion Crawford

" Here is something which the physician has pronounced good for you to eat," he said, " but don't try to sit up. – Bolanyo by Opie Percival Read

I shall need an escort, said Aunt Caroline to that astonished physician, and you will do very nicely. – The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

He is in great pain; but the physician whom we summoned bade me tell Mistress Margaret that at present he has no fear for his life. – Fair Margaret by H. Rider Haggard

Who is your physician? – The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

Though not a religious man, he had one holy passion, that of the physician. – The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie