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teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
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doctor / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 1
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
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  *掛* | 掛* | *掛
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
doctor; physician
HSK 3
doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
HSK 5
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  *瞧* | 瞧* | *瞧
to look at / to see / to see (a doctor) / to visit
HSK 5
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
to seek medical treatment / to see a doctor
HSK 7-9
to see a doctor / to seek medical advice
HSK 7-9
fake / impostor / quack (doctor) / imitation brand
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  *醫* | 醫* | *醫
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat
traditional Chinese medical science / a doctor trained in Chinese medicine
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
doctor
doctor-in-charge / resident physician
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
famous doctor
forensic pathologist; forensic doctor; medical examiner
prescription (medicine) / doctor's advice
tonic / healthy concoction / (fig.) just what the doctor ordered / (Tw) pirated software
good doctor / skilled doctor
divine physician / sage doctor / highly skilled practitioner
medical personnel / doctors and nurses
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
military doctor
official in charge of medical affairs / respectful title for a doctor
Sun Simiao (c. 581-682), doctor and herbalist of the Sui and Tang dynasty, author of Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold 千金要方
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
witch doctor / medicine man / shaman
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
waiting to see a doctor / awaiting treatment
healer / physician / medical man / doctor (esp. of TCM)
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
barefoot doctor / farmer with paramedical training (PRC)
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis
doctor (Chinese medicine) / ancient official title / companions (respectful)
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
quack / charlatan / itinerant doctor and swindler
Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
to work as a doctor
make-up artist / (fig.) spin doctor; reputation manager
Doctor of Letters
candid photograph / genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
doctor-patient
doctoral degree / PhD / same as Doctor of Philosophy 哲學博士學位|哲学博士学位
doctors and nurses / medic / medical (personnel)
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)
doctor of medicine
(coll.) to be fitted with an IUD; (of a doctor) to insert an IUD
ophthalmologist; eye doctor
to follow the doctor's advice / as instructed by the physician
Doctor of Philosophy; PhD
medical doctor; physician who works primarily by administering drugs, as opposed to surgeon 外科醫生|外科医生
Doctor of Laws / Legum Doctor
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity) / Doctors Without Borders
"drugs serving to nourish doctors", perceived problem in PRC medical practice
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
York Chow or Chow Yat-ngok (1947-), Hong Kong doctor and politician, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food since 2004
Mesmer (name) / Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian doctor who introduced hypnosis
honorary doctorate / Doctor Honoris Causae
(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
orthopedic doctor
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
(of a medical graduate) to undertake standardized training (as a resident doctor in a hospital) (abbr. for 規範化培訓|规范化培训)
examination room (in a doctor's office)
village doctor (Chinese health care system)
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法


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