Doctor
Doctor noun - A person specially trained in healing human medical disorders.
Medicine man and doctor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Medicine man" instead a noun "Doctor".
Medicine man
Medicine man noun - A Native American shaman.
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Synonyms for Medicine man
Doctor and medicine man are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Doctor" instead a noun phrase "Medicine man".
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- Medicine Man has a doctor in the rainforest where he believes he has found a cure for cancer in the local tribe's sugar supply after realising that the tribe had a very low cancer rate.
Source: Chekhovs Gun / Film - Sunzberro in "Medicine Man" is a Terileptil, although nicer than the ones the Fifth Doctor met in seventeenth-century Heathrow.
Source: Comic Book / Doctor Who (Titan) - In "Medicine Man", the Doctor talks about manipulation of humanity's history by the Jaggeroth, the Fendahl, and the Osirans.
Source: Comic Book / Doctor Who (Titan)
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