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play doctor
noun
a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
Word History and Origins
Origin of play doctor1
Example Sentences
To put it another way: It’s fun to lie on your couch and play doctor—until you’re truly sick.
David’s son, now 18, wonders what really happened when Dominique asked him to “play doctor” as a child.
The new production will see Smith play doctor Thomas Stockmann, a medical officer who finds the public baths are contaminated.
“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.”
“We don’t allow attorneys general to legislate, and we don’t allow them to play doctor,” Rothert said.
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