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misdoctor (三人称単数 現在形 misdoctors, 現在分詞 misdoctoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 misdoctored)

1. To doctor improperly; to give the wrong medical treatment.
   • 1896 July, F. L. Oswald, “Zoological Heath-Studies: Remedial Instincts”, in Good Health, volume 31, number 7, page 192:

     A decrepit pet woodchuck of mine that had been misdoctored by an officious visitor, lay snugged up in a warm basket near the fireplace, but under cover of darkness got up, squeezed out of a back door and disappeared.

   • 1936, Coronet: (Chicago) - Volume 1, page 38:

     On call, he is prepared to diagnose and prescribe for any cash customer without charging a cent for the extra service; and, since he never changes his location to get away from misdoctored patients or their grieving relatives, it is plain either that he must be very skillful, or that his drugs must be very weak, or that his patients and customers must be very, very tough.

   • 2014, Thomas Parker Boyd, The Voice Eternal:

     Then when we have overdoctored and misdoctored shall we abstain or reform.