private practitioner
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandpractitioner
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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practitioner
noun[C]
uk/prækˈtɪʃ.ən.ər/us/prækˈtɪʃ.ən.ɚ/
someone involved in a skilled job ...
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(Definition ofprivateandpractitionerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One each were identified as citizen,privatepractitioner, and philosopher.
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This figure may have been high because patients who had been to theirprivatepractitionerin the first case may have been too embarrassed to return to him.
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Indeed, the system will continue to rely substantially on the independentprivatepractitioner.
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These two institutions are theprivatepractitionerand the voluntary hospitals.
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And there is not aprivatepractitionerin the whole country.
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This is not some private arrangement between aprivatepractitionerand a private individual.
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A fine would mean very little to aprivatepractitionerdealing in this kind of practice.
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The direction is to refer such cases to aprivatepractitioneror hospital.
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Further, theprivatepractitionerhas other interests than those of the medical officer of health.
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It is suggested that she may go to a hospital or aprivatepractitioner.
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I am not at all happy about the position of theprivatepractitioner.
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Therefore, she brought the child to aprivatepractitionerwho is no expert on the subject at all.
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No one must be compelled to go to a clinic if he would rather go to aprivatepractitioner.
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The fact of the matter is that theprivatepractitioneris entitled to assume that he will be fairly paid.
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Theprivatepractitioneris now paid not on the quality of his work, but on how much he can do.
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I hope that the day of the voluntary agency or of theprivatepractitioneris not past.
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But there is some work which theprivatepractitionercannot do and which is much better done by organisation.
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I suggest that he has a perfect right to get his ownprivatepractitionerunder this system.
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He was also aprivatepractitionerthroughout this period.
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If you have aprivatepractitioner, no public interest is worse served on that account, and every public interest is better served.
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We only ask that if a private contributor desires to have his ownprivatepractitionerhe should be at liberty to do so.
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It is that there is an urgent need for the work both of theprivatepractitionerand of the law centres.
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It may be aprivatepractitionerand it may be a panel doctor, for everyone at least has a panel doctor.
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I am also very worried because of the way a certain proportion of theprivatepractitionerdentists are treating their patients in the country today.
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