Doctor Feelgood

plural Doctor Feelgoods · alternative Dr. Feelgood

1. UScountableslanguncountableHeroin.
2. UScountableslanguncountableAn unscrupulous physician who prescribes controlled drugs in absence of clinically valid indications for their use.

   “I’m sorry,” I said finally. I was being petty and I knew it. “Truth is… prescription drugs are beyond my area of expertise. What about all your high-flying financial contacts? Surely one of the partners knows some Dr. Feelgood.”

   2012, Chris Mendius, Spoonful, Oak Park, Ill.: Anything Goes Publishing, →ISBN, page 133

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   Certainly [Andrew] Bergman can turn out funny lines, even whole clusters of them from time to time. But I have no respect for a playwright who feeds you jokes the way one throws fish to the seals at the zoo—without any respect for human nature, for truth, for a purpose in writing other than making it. Such playwrights are to the theater what the Dr. Feelgoods are to medicine.

   1986 April 28, John Simon, “Sisters and Brothers”, in New York, volume 19, number 17, →ISSN, page 107