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play doctor
noun
Theater.
- a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of play doctor1
First recorded in 1920–25
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To put it another way: It’s fun to lie on your couch and play doctor—until you’re truly sick.
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David’s son, now 18, wonders what really happened when Dominique asked him to “play doctor” as a child.
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The new production will see Smith play doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer who finds the public baths are contaminated.
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“But I think it’s very dangerous to have doctors violating their Hippocratic oath and killing people…I want the doctor to play doctor, and not executioner.”
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“We don’t allow attorneys general to legislate, and we don’t allow them to play doctor,” Rothert said.
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